Jennifer Johnston Knihy

Helen has retreated to the remote north-west coast of Ireland to paint the sea and the shore, and to be alone with her past. English war hero Roger Hawthorne has settled in the neglected railway station house nearby. Mutilated and sick at heart, with the help of a young lad he has begun painstakingly to restore the derelict branch line station. Soon Roger and Helen form a bond which, over gramophone music, dancing and champagne, deepens into love. But Helen, enjoying her first taste of happiness in years, is to learn just how brutally fleeting it can be.

Ve středu pozornosti irské spisovatelky Jennider Johnstonové, kterou znají naši čtenáři z novely Opuštěné nádraží, jsou nečekaná osudová přátelství, která na pozadí dramatických dějin její země vypovídají o podstatě lidské přirozenosti a lidském údělu. Osud starého pána, jehož svět je zalidněn postavami minulosti – jeho zanedbanou ženou, chladným, netečným otcem a atraktivní matkou, milující jeho bratra – je náhle narušen příchodem drzého venkovského zrzka, jenž příslibem přátelství zažene stíny minulosti. Elegantní, subtilní, mistrovská, dojemná, to jsou přívlastky, kterými kritika charakterizovala tuto prózu, evokující naše osobní selhání, odpuštění i naději.

Alec and Jerry shouldn't have been friends: Alec's life was one of privilege, while Jerry's was one of toil. But this hardly mattered to two young men whose shared love of horses brought them together and whose whole lives lay ahead of them. When war breaks out in 1914, both Jerry and Alec sign up - yet for quite different reasons. On the fields of Flanders they find themselves standing together, but once again divided: as officer and enlisted man. And it is there, surrounded by mud and chaos and death, that one of them makes a fateful decision whose consequences will test their friendship and loyalty to breaking point.

Constance Keating has lived a life of exile alienated from her family and from Ireland. Now she has returned home to die. While that process takes place she replays the fragments of her past. And, as the Christmas tree awaits its day, so she also waits, hoping that the outcome will be on her terms.

Málokdo dokáže vyjádřit smutný osud Irska a skloubit ve své tvorbě soukromé problémy s politickými – navíc s humorem a bez náznaku sentimentality – jako Jennifer Johnstonová. Stíny na kůži jsou příběhem mladého Joa Logana, kterého trýzní neustálé požadavky jeho otce, někdejšího hrdiny a nyní slabého, vyčerpaného muže. Ve škole Joe jen sní v očekávání lepších časů, kdy utichne střelba a noci už nebudou plné děsivého strachu. Porozumění a kamarádství najde u Katheen, učitelky z nedaleké školy. Když se ale náhle vrátí z Londýna jeho starší bratr Brendan se zbraní a spoustou tajemství, pocítí Joe děsivou brutalitu války a jeho snům je provždy konec.

What starts as a class trip to the aquarium ends in the depths of the ocean, where the class has to escape from the jaws of a great white shark. Ms. Frizzle teaches the class about different shark species, including the goblin shark, angel shark, and the enormous whale shark. Illustrations.

In 1920, 18-year old Nancy Gulliver befriends a mysterious stranger and unwittingly becomes involved in the bloody conflict between the English and the Irish. (Nancy Pearl)

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Johnny, an outstanding young swimmer, went missing nearly thirty years ago: drowned, or so everyone except his sister Imogen believes. How could this have happened? Encouraged, pushed even, from a child by his father, Johnny could have made the Olympic team, couldn't he? As Imogen gradually pieces together bits of her family history, we hear the tragic echoes that connect her with the Great War and Ireland in the nineteen-twenties.