Love Lost and Found

We will read three Scots, Irish and Welsh tales of love lost and found. These stories develop out of a kinship between human, nonhuman and the land, houses and villages in which they are enmeshed. All the books immerse us in language-patterns of Celtic and Gaelic culture.

The daily grind

These three novels look at different ways of working, past and present, and the huge variety of everyday work. They are real stories as well as imaginative (and occasionally funny!) retellings of what constitutes work, the ‘workplace’ and the place of work in human lives.

The unknown abroad

Foreign travel can be limited in more ways than one. Underlying the beauties of culture, language and landscape, there is often unrest, political anxiety, violence, and environmental catastrophe on scales beyond our own worlds. Here are three controversial stories that depict unusual and diverse problems affecting other countries currently and in the recent past.