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at the margins of the red-rocked desert and the forest where the last of the state's Native Americans still make their home

distrustful relationship between Ireland and the rest of the United Kingdom deteriorated into a generations-long argument about 'Home Rule'

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It involves nothing less than the Holy Grail - not as a mystical chalice of medieval legend but as something more tangible which has played a vital role in the shaping of Western history

Kevin Barry: Dark Lies the Island [2013] paperback BUSIN overcome common sticking pointsWinner of the Sunday Times short story prize Winner of the Edge Hill short story prize A kiss that just won't happen. A disco at the end of the world. A teenage goth on a terror mission. And OAP kiddie snatchers, and scouse real ale enthusiasts, and occult weirdness in the backwoods Dark Lies the Island is a collection of unpredictable stories about love and cruelty, crimes, desperation, and hope from the man Irvine Welsh has described as 'the most