The Bitter RootsWhen fourteen year old Pauly takes a swim in the Clark Fork River one summer day, he doesnt expect to see a boy drown. Surrounded by everyday violence in his Montana town, Pauly is determined to prove himself, navigating the awkward fumbles of boyhood against a backdrop of strikes, gang fights, soldiers headed for war, and Prohibition. First published in 1941 and never before reissued, The Bitter Roots is a largely autobiographical novel full of

lands it anywhere and everywhere

referendum

from as far apart as Japan and Argentina

Can a country manage its past

who died forgotten and alone in 1950

Jean Follain

She lives in Blackburn

[marked by its] humour

one which describes a context for both the challenges Katy faces in meeting the expectations of nineteenth-century young womanhood

with a note on Hafan Books

a VE Day celebrator and Black Lives Matter protesters

'Murnane's sentences are little dialectics of boredom and beauty