DancerFrom the documented facts of real life, the acclaimed Irish writer Colum McCann has created an extraordinary work of fiction. This history of a life gets under the skin of its hero, into his head, under the skin of the people around him and into the truth of what it means to dance.

Novelist Xiaolu Guo writes the extraordinary story of her childhood in rural China

bureaucrats

Her job is to stand in court representing the mad and the bad

Frances is happy to stay in her beloved countryside when the new King arrives from Scotland

nothing to worry about

She was all for wild

and Stefania is alone in an occupied city

seriously satisfying and packed full of flavour

She is desperate to find her shy

Robert finds that the ancient skills and knowledge of the properties of ash

each minute brings with it a new memory: growing up with her father and his wives in a grand old house in a quiet Turkish town

It is the last roll of the dice for the Achean League