Alison Lang: 6 books

Raised by wolves, lured to a windswept island, transmogrified into a cat… everyone is trapped or lost or running, whether they’re drinking themselves to death in rural Italy or living under a false identity after a terror attack. Bleak and hopeful by turns, Lang’s stories disturb, provoke and entertain.

Ghosts from the past. Visions of the future. A priest on a doomed mission to a heathen island, a painting hidden from public view for seventy years, and a Fiat Punto full of rotting groceries. Love, loss and loneliness are the themes that unite these eight stories, five of them translated from their original Gaelic by the author.

San Dùthaich Ùir is a story of second generation exile. Anna looks up to both her mother and her Aunt Marguerite although they live very different lives. Her mother's is one of work and duty but Marguerite's ways are quite different and Anna's father does not approve. Anna eventually enters university...

Naomi was always the geeky hanger-on at uni, but now her social networking app Snog has taken the internet by storm and suddenly she's rich and famous and running a huge company. It's more than her jealous friend Jeni can bear, and it's all too easy to set up a fake online profile and start making...

WIRD UNSERE LIEBE STÄRKER SEIN? von ROBERTS, ALISON Die junge Ärztin Philippa Murdoch hat in den Armen ihres italienischen Kollegen Antonio Costa die große Liebe gefunden, da stellt eine schlimme Nachricht ihr ganzes Leben auf den Kopf - und bedroht ihre gemeinsame Zukunft mit Antonio … KÜSS...

This collection tells the story of the case study genre at a time when it became the genre par excellence for discussing human sexuality across the humanities and life sciences.It is a transcontinental journey from the imperial world of fin-de-siècle Central Europe to the interwar metropolises of...