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Hanging on to his tenure in literature at Bannockburn college by the slimmest of threads, Pendleton's simmering despair boils over with the arrival on campus of his one-time friend, now nemesis, the bestselling author and king of the coffee-table book, Allen Horowitz.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eFor Pendleton, death seems to be the only remaining option, but his attempt to kill himself is wrecked by the intervention of Adi Wiltshire, a graduate student battling her own demons of failure and thwarted ambition. Whilst Pendleton recovers from his suicide attempt, Adi discovers a novel hidden in his basement: a brilliant, bitter story with a gruesome murder at its core.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe publication of Scream causes a storm of publicity, a whirlwind into which Adi and Horowitz are thrust - along with the sister of a young girl whose real-life, unsolved murder bears an uncanny resemblance to the crime in Pendleton's novel and a burnt-out cop with secrets of his own, who is determined to prove that in this case fact and fiction are one and the same.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldsboro Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47263733023014,"sku":"9780297850830","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4900\/5606\/files\/b9ad6146-4b45-436a-9432-7eb9f73a76a0.jpg?v=1701084771"},{"product_id":"midnight-in-a-perfect-life","title":"Midnight in a Perfect Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eKarl is a troubled writer standing on the precipice of forty. 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When Fennimore re-emerges with a proposal, Karl begins to tap this new source of creativity - but just how far will he go in his pursuit of the ultimate story?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldsboro Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47263733154086,"sku":"9780297859888","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4900\/5606\/files\/d78eb6ac-ff87-4886-a0fa-a91475835bb3.jpg?v=1701084779"},{"product_id":"the-death-of-all-things-seen","title":"The Death of All Things Seen","description":"\u003cp\u003e'There was a new beginning. He felt it everywhere, in the sweep of change, in the simple pronouncement of 'Yes we can!''\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIt's 2008 and Norman Price - a moderately successful forty-something playwright living in Chicago - considers the shuddering impact of the financial crash. What's needed, he thinks, is the will for a new existence. When his parents die, one shortly after the other, The New Existence becomes Norman's mantra as he tries to recalibrate his own shaken world.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInto Norman's tentative re-building, a couple of bombshells are dropped. His parents' old house has to go on the market, forcing him to revisit the past. And then he receives a mysterious email from a man he has never met but whose name is instantly, painfully, familiar. Norman's new existence is suddenly threatened by past secrets.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMichael Collins takes post 9\/11 America as the background for a deeply moving novel about complex identities and the fragility of humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldsboro Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47263836733734,"sku":"9781784974947","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4900\/5606\/files\/c32fc817-2da4-4dde-b4f3-2a1b844ca531.jpg?v=1701086723"},{"product_id":"the-meat-eaters","title":"The Meat Eaters","description":"\u003cp\u003eMichael Collins's stories are about Ireland, about the Irish as they are and as they would like to be imagined. In the title story we see the fatal consequences of self-deception. Posing as a nationalist hero, a young man travels to America with a suitcase full of meat. The warm welcome he expects swiftly dematerialises as he awakes to the grim realities of life in hiding.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe vivid, surreal splendour of the writing allied with images of real people - the struggling widow, the careless father, the schoolboy and the philosopher, the good and the corrupt - make this an outstanding collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldsboro Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47264081281318,"sku":"KVRFCVSI","price":100.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4900\/5606\/files\/182bf198-1b12-48fe-b33f-f8130caea29d.jpg?v=1701092224"}],"url":"https:\/\/goldsborobooks.pro\/collections\/michael-collins.oembed","provider":"Goldsboro Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}