Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourtCondition: Pre Loved Angela's Ashes, imbued on every page with Frank McCourt's astounding humor and compassion, is a glorious book that bears all the marks of a classic. "When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish

" Rosaleen

from his bygone days of first dates to a life of higher and higher tightropes – and no safety net in sight

Speculation immediately spread about the cause of the fire that led to the crash and possible political motivations

Yet Ella keeps pushing against the monotony

where bloody gang wars and midnight police raids were his rites of passage

The first snow of the season has fallen

Doublethink

the invading "soul" who has been given Melanie's body

struggles to raise her mixed-race child in an apartheid society

In the heightened state of life's final moments

He hires Mikael Blomkvist

You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town is among the only works of fiction to explore the experience of “Coloured” citizens in apartheid-era South Africa