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2 days ago · Cush is where Eamon Redmond, a judge, retreats every summer in The Heather Blazing (1992); where the Devereux family gather in The Blackwater Lightship as Declan is dying of Aids; where Nora Webster used to spend time with her husband, Maurice, until he died and she was forced to sell up. Cush is a site of freedom and pleasure, where swimmers ...
5 days ago · He visits it in “The Heather Blazing” (1992), “The Blackwater Lightship” (1999), “Brooklyn” (2009), “Nora Webster” (2014) and again in his latest, “Long Island.”. In each book, some of the characters’ stories and encounters intersect — some lightly, others with great precision and intensity.
1 day ago · Happy bookish birthdays (30 May) to... Hal Clement (Mission of Gravity) Colm Toibin (The Blackwater Lightship) Cornelia Otis Skinner (Our Hearts Were Young and Gay) Alfred Austin (The Garden I Love) Tim Lucas (The Book of Renfield) Join thousands of readers and try the free ILMK magazine at Flipboard!
5 days ago · May 26, 2024. The historic Lightship Overfalls joined some very elite company when it was named one of the top 100 must-see landmarks in the United States. The lightship, dating back to 1938, was listed in a TIME special-edition publication.
3 days ago · The Blackwater Lightship: Picador 2000 Winner Margaret Atwood: The Blind Assassin: Bloomsbury Simon Jenkins (chair) Professor Roy Foster; Mariella Frostrup; Caroline Gascoigne; Rose Tremain; Shortlist Trezza Azzopardi: The Hiding Place: Picador Michael Collins: The Keepers of Truth: Phoenix House Kazuo Ishiguro: When We Were Orphans: Faber ...
4 days ago · 29. SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in Lake Superior during a storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29 men. When launched on June 7, 1958, she was the largest ship on North America's Great Lakes and remains the largest to have sunk there. She was located in deep water on November 14 ...
6 days ago · Although the lightship docked at Canalfront Park was never stationed off Lewes, it’s a restored ship that served at three New England stations from 1938 to 1972. The Boston, its last assignment, arrived in Lewes in 1973 and was named in honor of the lightship sailors stationed at the mouth of Delaware Bay at Overfalls Shoals.
