The Girl in the Bog - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Girl in the Bog write by Keith Donohue. This book was released on 2024-08-13. The Girl in the Bog available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ancient heroes from Irish mythology and folklore come to life in the modern world in this dark, atmospheric story. At once a thrilling chase novel and a wry reimagining of Ireland’s oldest epic, it is sure to enthrall readers of Neil Gaiman and Cassandra Khaw. Everybody is after the girl in the bog. One morning in a field in Connemara, a farmer unearths the body of a young woman, two thousand years old, preserved under layers of peat. Later that evening, she awakens in unfamiliar modern Ireland, ripping a hole through space and time and setting awhirl old animosities and long-held grudges. Shadowy figures follow her from the pagan past, and each emerges with a claim on the girl from the bog. With help from a trio of wannabe teenage witches, she goes on the run. Joining in the chase is an American archaeologist who wants to keep the discovery for herself and two befuddled farmers trapped in the plot. Hosts of fairies out for the night work their magic and mischief, and in the blue hour before sunrise, the saga unfolds in a battle for the ages. Part fantasy, part mystery, part thriller, part send-up, this comic and poignant love song to Irish literature and the gift of gab does not merely bend genres; it braids them into Celtic knots.
Orange World and Other Stories
Orange World and Other Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Orange World and Other Stories write by Karen Russell. This book was released on 2019-05-14. Orange World and Other Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the Pulitzer Finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, a stunning new collection of short fiction that showcases Karen Russell’s extraordinary, irresistible gifts of language and imagination. Karen Russell’s comedic genius and mesmerizing talent for creating outlandish predicaments that uncannily mirror our inner in lives is on full display in these eight exuberant, arrestingly vivid, unforgettable stories. In“Bog Girl”, a revelatory story about first love, a young man falls in love with a two thousand year old girl that he’s extracted from a mass of peat in a Northern European bog. In “The Prospectors,” two opportunistic young women fleeing the depression strike out for new territory, and find themselves fighting for their lives. In the brilliant, hilarious title story, a new mother desperate to ensure her infant’s safety strikes a diabolical deal, agreeing to breastfeed the devil in exchange for his protection. The landscape in which these stories unfold is a feral, slippery, purgatorial space, bracketed by the void—yet within it Russell captures the exquisite beauty and tenderness of ordinary life. Orange World is a miracle of storytelling from a true modern master.
Beware the Bog Girl
Beware the Bog Girl - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beware the Bog Girl write by M. D. Spenser. This book was released on 1997. Beware the Bog Girl available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. While spending the summer on Mossland Island with her dad, Julie searches for the ghost of a girl who was lost 100 years ago.
Bog Child
Bog Child - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bog Child write by Siobhan Dowd. This book was released on 2015-07-30. Bog Child available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Digging for peat in the mountain with his Uncle Tally, Fergus finds the body of a child, and it looks like she's been murdered. As Fergus tries to make sense of the mad world around him - his brother on hunger-strike in prison, his growing feelings for Cora, his parents arguing over the Troubles, and him in it up to the neck, blackmailed into acting as courier to God knows what, a little voice comes to him in his dreams, and the mystery of the bog child unfurls. Bog Child is an astonishing novel exploring the sacrifices made in the name of peace, and the unflinching strength of the human spirit.
The Bog Baby
The Bog Baby - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Bog Baby write by Jeanne Willis. This book was released on 2012-05-28. The Bog Baby available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When two small sisters go fishing to the magic pond, they find something much better than a frog or a newt. They find a bog baby. Small and blue with wings like a dragon, the girls decide to make him their secret. I won't tell if you won't. But the bog baby is a wild thing, and when he becomes poorly, the girls decide they must tell their mum. And she tells them the greatest lesson, if you really love something, you have to let it go.
