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You’re Not Listening
'BRILLIANT' Chris Evans, Virgin Radio Breakfast ShowWhen was the last time you listened to someone, or someone really listened to you? This life-changing book will transform your conversations forever. At work, we're taught to lead the conversation. On social media, we shape our personal narratives. At parties, we talk over one another. So do our politicians. We're not listening. And no one is listening to us.Now more than ever, we need to listen to those around us. New York Times contributor Kate Murphy draws on countless conversations she has had with everyone from priests to CIA interrogators, focus group moderators to bartenders, her great-great aunt to her friend's toddler, to show how only by listening well can we truly connect with others. Listening has the potential to transform our relationships and our working lives, improve our self-knowledge, and increase our creativity and happiness. While it may take some effort, it's a skill that can be learnt and perfected. When all we crave is to understand and be understood, You're Not Listening shows us how.* With a new afterword by the author *'This book couldn't be more timely. Inspiringly profound...smart and playful' Observer'I'll be adopting Murphy's advice' Sunday Times, Style
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Why We Click
FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF YOU'RE NOT LISTENING Why do you immediately click with some people while others inexplicably turn you off? Do people emit vibes – good or bad? Is it possible to read a room? Are bad habits contagious?The hidden science of why people click, and how this powerful phenomenon shapes our lives. In Why We Click, bestselling author Kate Murphy explores the science behind the seemingly magical yet science-backed phenomenon that makes us fall into rhythm and find resonance with one another. Murphy reveals how and why we match one another's movements, posture and gestures, and sync up our heart rates, blood pressure, pupil dilation, brainwaves and hormonal activity. This powerful tool shows that emotions, moods and behaviours are all infectious and can profoundly impact our health and wellbeing – for good or bad. In this enthralling book, discover the superpower of "interpersonal synchrony" and its extraordinary benefits so you can learn how to detect and encourage this phenomenon when beneficial, and "desynchronise" from others when it is not.
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Behind the Wireless
Behind the Wireless tells the story of women at the BBC in the 1920s and 30s. Broadcasting was brand new in Britain and the BBC developed without many of the overt discriminatory practices commonplace at the time. Women were employed at all levels, except the very top, for instance as secretaries, documentary makers, advertising representatives, and librarians. Three women held Director level posts, Hilda Matheson (Director of Talks), Mary Somerville (Director of School Broadcasting), and Isa Benzie (Foreign Director). Women also produced the programmes aimed at female listeners and brought women broadcasters to the microphone. There was an ethos of equality and the chance to rise through the ranks from accounts clerk to accompanist. But lurking behind the façade of modernity were hidden inequalities in recruitment, pay, and promotion and in 1932 a marriage bar was introduced. Kate Murphy examines how and why the interwar BBC created new opportunities for women.
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Fears and Fantasies
Fears and Fantasies: Modernity, Gender, and the Rural-Urban Divide explores the ways in which fantasies about returning to, or revitalising, rural life helped to define Western modernity in the early twentieth century. Scholarship addressing responses to modernity has focused on urban space and fears about the effects of city life; few studies have considered the ‘rural’ to be as critical as the ‘urban’ in understanding modernity. This book argues that the rural is just as significant a reference point as the urban in discourses about modernity. Using a rich Australian case study to illuminate broader international themes, it focuses on the role of gender in ideas about the rural-urban divide, showing how the country was held up against the ‘unnatural’ city as a space in which men were more ‘masculine’ and women more ‘feminine’. Fears and Fantasies is an innovative and important contribution to scholarship in the fields of history and gender studies.
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Disengagement Ring
Discover a brilliantly charming, relatable read from BESTSELLER Clodagh MurphyAfter a series of hopeless relationships, Kate O’Neill is ready to settle down. So when her boyfriend Brian finally asks her to marry him, she accepts. Her only misgiving is that her family don’t like him. But she’s sure they’ll come around in time.However, her eccentric mother Grace thinks Kate is making a big mistake. So she conspires to pack her off to Tuscany for the summer to work as a private chef for rock band Walking Wounded – whose manager just happens to be Kate’s lifelong crush, Will Sargent.Though catering to wayward rock stars and their demanding entourage is challenging, Kate loves her new job. But spending time with Will dredges up old feelings, and her biggest challenge is remembering that she has a fiancé – and Will has a girlfriend.As temperatures rise, will Kate be able to keep her head and figure out where her heart truly lies?Praise for Clodagh Murphy:‘Beautifully written, funny and warm, Murphy has done it again’ Joanna Bolouri‘A wonderful story of romance, sisterhood and community with a really strong will they/won’t they vibe’ BookMadJo‘Once again, I loved my trip to Halfpenny Lane and I adored this book. I cannot wait for another visit’ Herding Cats‘Sweet and funny, this second chance romance was a fun read’ Reviews in Heels‘If you haven’t started this series yet there is still time to book your trip to the theatre – you don’t know what you are missing’ Kirsty’s Book Reviews‘This is a lovely series and although it can be read as a standalone, reading the first in the series will add to the enjoyment’ Books, Life and Everything
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Disengagement Ring
Discover a brilliantly charming, relatable read from BESTSELLER Clodagh MurphyAfter a series of hopeless relationships, Kate O’Neill is ready to settle down. So when her boyfriend Brian finally asks her to marry him, she accepts. Her only misgiving is that her family don’t like him. But she’s sure they’ll come around in time.However, her eccentric mother Grace thinks Kate is making a big mistake. So she conspires to pack her off to Tuscany for the summer to work as a private chef for rock band Walking Wounded – whose manager just happens to be Kate’s lifelong crush, Will Sargent.Though catering to wayward rock stars and their demanding entourage is challenging, Kate loves her new job. But spending time with Will dredges up old feelings, and her biggest challenge is remembering that she has a fiancé – and Will has a girlfriend.As temperatures rise, will Kate be able to keep her head and figure out where her heart truly lies?Praise for Clodagh Murphy:‘Beautifully written, funny and warm, Murphy has done it again’ Joanna Bolouri‘A wonderful story of romance, sisterhood and community with a really strong will they/won’t they vibe’ BookMadJo‘Once again, I loved my trip to Halfpenny Lane and I adored this book. I cannot wait for another visit’ Herding Cats‘Sweet and funny, this second chance romance was a fun read’ Reviews in Heels‘If you haven’t started this series yet there is still time to book your trip to the theatre – you don’t know what you are missing’ Kirsty’s Book Reviews‘This is a lovely series and although it can be read as a standalone, reading the first in the series will add to the enjoyment’ Books, Life and Everything
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Disengagement Ring
Discover a brilliantly charming, relatable read from BESTSELLER Clodagh MurphyAfter a series of hopeless relationships, Kate O’Neill is ready to settle down. So when her boyfriend Brian finally asks her to marry him, she accepts. Her only misgiving is that her family don’t like him. But she’s sure they’ll come around in time.However, her eccentric mother Grace thinks Kate is making a big mistake. So she conspires to pack her off to Tuscany for the summer to work as a private chef for rock band Walking Wounded – whose manager just happens to be Kate’s lifelong crush, Will Sargent.Though catering to wayward rock stars and their demanding entourage is challenging, Kate loves her new job. But spending time with Will dredges up old feelings, and her biggest challenge is remembering that she has a fiancé – and Will has a girlfriend.As temperatures rise, will Kate be able to keep her head and figure out where her heart truly lies?Praise for Clodagh Murphy:‘Beautifully written, funny and warm, Murphy has done it again’ Joanna Bolouri‘A wonderful story of romance, sisterhood and community with a really strong will they/won’t they vibe’ BookMadJo‘Once again, I loved my trip to Halfpenny Lane and I adored this book. I cannot wait for another visit’ Herding Cats‘Sweet and funny, this second chance romance was a fun read’ Reviews in Heels‘If you haven’t started this series yet there is still time to book your trip to the theatre – you don’t know what you are missing’ Kirsty’s Book Reviews‘This is a lovely series and although it can be read as a standalone, reading the first in the series will add to the enjoyment’ Books, Life and Everything
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Never Seen the Stars
The ethereal romance of Dustin Thao's You've Reached Sam meets The Fault in Our Stars' exploration of coming of age with a disabilityin a tragic yet uplifting story of love and grief.Hattie Murphy thinks the universe hates her.She has a secret: she has the same genetic eye disease as her father and is slowly going blind, just like he did. Nobody knows. Not her friends. Not her family. As if that weren't hard enough, Hattie's good friend Mason drowns unexpectedly, leaving their friend group shattered.After Mason's death, Hattie isn't ready to let go. There are too many things left unsaid between them. But while it's hard for her to find her seat in the dim light of the church at Mason's funeral, Hattie finds that she can see something no one else can: Mason's ghost. And when he speaks, teasing her the way he always did, it's clear their chemistry hasn't changed. Sometimes, when Mason visits her, Hattie can pretend that everything is how it used to be. But the longer Hattie keeps her secrets, the harder it is to deny the truth. Her eyesight is getting worse, and she's mourning not just Mason, but the life she thought she'd have. Hattie's sick of being told that the only way to heal is to move on . . . because how can she move on if it means losing Mason forever?
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Disengagement Ring
Discover a brilliantly charming, relatable read from BESTSELLER Clodagh MurphyAfter a series of hopeless relationships, Kate O’Neill is ready to settle down. So when her boyfriend Brian finally asks her to marry him, she accepts. Her only misgiving is that her family don’t like him. But she’s sure they’ll come around in time.However, her eccentric mother Grace thinks Kate is making a big mistake. So she conspires to pack her off to Tuscany for the summer to work as a private chef for rock band Walking Wounded – whose manager just happens to be Kate’s lifelong crush, Will Sargent.Though catering to wayward rock stars and their demanding entourage is challenging, Kate loves her new job. But spending time with Will dredges up old feelings, and her biggest challenge is remembering that she has a fiancé – and Will has a girlfriend.As temperatures rise, will Kate be able to keep her head and figure out where her heart truly lies?Praise for Clodagh Murphy:‘Beautifully written, funny and warm, Murphy has done it again’ Joanna Bolouri‘A wonderful story of romance, sisterhood and community with a really strong will they/won’t they vibe’ BookMadJo‘Once again, I loved my trip to Halfpenny Lane and I adored this book. I cannot wait for another visit’ Herding Cats‘Sweet and funny, this second chance romance was a fun read’ Reviews in Heels‘If you haven’t started this series yet there is still time to book your trip to the theatre – you don’t know what you are missing’ Kirsty’s Book Reviews‘This is a lovely series and although it can be read as a standalone, reading the first in the series will add to the enjoyment’ Books, Life and Everything
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Queering Twentieth-Century Irish Women’s Writing
Bringing together a group of untimely, queerly-oriented writers Dorothy Macardle, Kate O'Brien, Elizabeth Bowen and Molly Keane this book unsettles the conventional narratives of modern Irish culture. Despite attempts to impose a linear narrative of progress, feel-good accounts are clearly inadequate to the realities of contemporary Ireland. Guided by a queer refusal to move on from bad feelings, Naoise Murphy disrupts common-sense narratives of modernisation, gender, sexuality and race in the postcolonial state. Lingering with unease and discomfort in the work of mid-twentieth-century women writers and the spaces they occupied, this book pays close attention to inadmissible feelings of loss, anxiety, hauntedness and melancholia. By embracing discomfort, it moves towards a less idealising form of queer studies that is more responsive to the complexity of queer history, and offers a new story of Irish culture in the twentieth century.
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Kate
Katie Nicholl, bestselling author and royal correspondent for The Mail on Sunday , gives an inside look into the life of the future Queen of England, Kate Middleton. Since becoming Duchess Catherine of Cambridge in 2011, Middleton has captivated royals fans around the world and now, Nicholl delivers the story of her early life, first romances, and love with Prince William. Nicholl will reveal new details on Middleton's initiation into royal life and, of course, her first pregnancy.
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Kai Cookbook
“Chef, rebel, activist, and all heart – Jess Murphy cooks the way she lives: fearlessly, with fierce flavour and zero pretence. I love her.” Yvette van Boven, cookbook author and journalistThe Kai Cookbook is the long-awaited collection of 100 of the restaurant’s best-loved dishes, from the legendary Kai fish fingers that they can’t take off the menu to showstopper cakes from the irresistible daily line-up on the bar.Kai is the Māori word for food, and Jess and Dave Murphy opened the door to their award-winning Galway restaurant in 2011 with a simple formula: high-quality produce, sourced locally and cooked intelligently. What’s in season will be on your plate.Part cookbook, part love letter to Jess’s adopted home in the West of Ireland, these recipes and recollections, all told in Jess’s distinctive voice, will capture your heart, just like this little restaurant has done to all who have eaten there.
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Los Angeles Review No. 24
The Los Angeles Review is a literary journal of divergent literature with a West Coast emphasis. Established in 2003, LAR publishes both the stories of Los Angeles, endlessly varied, and those that grow outside our world of smog and glitter. LAR seeks voices with something wild in them, voices that know what it means to be alive, to be fallible, to be human. Issue 24 features work from Catherine Pierce, Lory Bedikian, Clea Bierman, and more. The Los Angeles Review Masthead Publisher: Tobi HarperEditor: Kate Gale Managing Editor: McKenna Themm Assistant Managing Editor: Dulce ArteagaFiction Editors: K. K. Fox and Hananah ZaheerFlash Fiction Editor: Sophia IhlefeldPoetry Editors: Blas Falconer and Vandana KhannaNonfiction Editor: Marco WilkinsonTranslation Editors: Francesca Bell and Linda Murphy MarshallBook Review Editors: Deirdre Collins and Tansica SunkamaneevongseProduction Editor: Rebeccah Sanhueza
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How to Forget
“This is a masterfully crafted memoir, an elegant tour de force that firmly establishes Mulgrew as a writer of significant literary endowment. The soulmate to Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes, How to Forget, despite the promise of its title, cannot be forgotten or ignored.” —Augusten Burroughs, author of Running with Scissors and Toil & Trouble In this profoundly honest and examined memoir about returning to Iowa to care for her ailing parents, the star of Orange Is the New Black and bestselling author of Born with Teeth takes us on an unexpected journey of loss, betrayal, and the transcendent nature of a daughter’s love for her parents. They say you can’t go home again. But when her father is diagnosed with aggressive lung cancer and her mother with atypical Alzheimer’s, New York-based actress Kate Mulgrew returns to her hometown in Iowa to spend time with her parents and care for them in the time they have left.The months Kate spends with her parents in Dubuque—by turns turbulent, tragic, and joyful—lead her to reflect on each of their lives and how they shaped her own. Those ruminations are transformed when, in the wake of their deaths, Kate uncovers long-kept secrets that challenge her understanding of the unconventional Irish Catholic household in which she was raised.Breathtaking and powerful, laced with the author’s irreverent wit, How to Forget is a considered portrait of a mother and a father, an emotionally powerful memoir that demonstrates how love fuses children and parents, and an honest examination of family, memory, and indelible loss.
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Born with Teeth
At 22, Kate Mulgrew gave birth to a daughter. Having already signed the adoption papers, she was allowed only a fleeting glimpse of her child. Three days later, she returned to work as the star of a popular soap opera. Twenty years later, she went in search of the daughter she had given away. We know Mulgrew for the strong women she's played--Captain Janeway on Star Trek; "Red" on Orange Is the New Black. Now, in her memoir, we meet the most inspiring and lovable character of all: herself. Raised in a large, eccentric Irish family, Mulgrew is mischievous, brave, wise, and a born storyteller. Weaving together the details of her career with the romance, adventure, and heartbreak behind the scenes, BORN WITH TEETH is a breathtaking memoir of a life lived to the fullest.
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What the Cat Dragged In
"McMurray's love scenes are crackling!"—Entertainment WeeklySet in Brooklyn (with a small-town feel in the big city), this cat café romantic comedy has tropes readers will adore:Best friend's brother romanceForbidden romance (can't let his sister/my best friend find out!)Millennial angst (my love life is a hot mess)Adorable rescue cats in a cozy Brooklyn caféWhen Paige Danvers isn't managing events for the Whitman Street Cat Café, she is busy navigating dating disasters as a single woman in Brooklyn. Urged by her boss and best friend Lauren to find a distraction from ineffectual dating apps, Paige volunteers with a cat rescue organization, where she actually meets a guy with some real relationship potential.Recent law school grad Josh Harlow is putting in long hours at a Manhattan law firm as he gets over a messy breakup. When his boss requires him to do some volunteer work, Josh's sister sets him up to help capture feral cats. Partnered with Paige, Josh is insistently drawn to the dynamic event planner and sparks between them fly.One problem: after a steamy night together, Paige discovers Josh is Lauren's brother and dating him would be a spectacularly awful idea. Particularly considering Paige's track record. They're both in too deep to walk away—but if they let the cat out of the bag, it's going to wreak havoc with friends, family, and jobs alike.Praise for Kate McMurray:"McMurray offers up some irresistible animal magnetism in this quirky romance...Colorful locals and the leads' convincing chemistry give this romance its sizzle, but it's the four-legged costars that steal the show. Animal lovers are sure to be charmed."—Publishers Weekly on Like Cats and Dogs
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For the Love of Kate
Kate Middleton and Trevor Houston were from two different worlds. Handsome Trevor Houston, playboy extraordinaire, lived in the world of the rich and famous. He dressed in designer suits, drove a flashy red sports car and owned a house that looked like a museum. Trevor didn't do relationships. He preferred to date glamorous, experienced women whose only thought seemed to be the next bauble he could bestow upon them. Lovely Kate Middleton hid her looks behind a pair of glasses and dull, unflattering clothes. She was an innocent, a woman with standards in a modern era which seemed to have little. Kate accepts the job as Trevor's assistant, because she is almost penniless. Horrified by Trevor's carefree lifestyle, Kate sets about reforming her new boss. Although Trevor resists at first, there is something beguiling about Kate, something which compels him to pursue her and perhaps, make her surrender. Unfortunately, by winning Kate, Trevor may very well find himself entrapped as well.
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