Kevin Barry’s debut novel takes place in a wild, bloodthirsty city on the west coast of Ireland, but good luck finding it on a map. Yes, the setting of City of Bohane is a product of its author’s imagination (Barry is Irish himself). Then again, considering the kind of mayhem that takes place there, it’s just as well; you wouldn’t want to get within shouting distance of the place anyway.

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You wouldn’t think a team not far removed from a 22-game winning streak, having wrapped up its first three best-of-seven playoff series in 13 games, would have the faintest clue about fighting through with adversity.

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In 2006, two years after winning the first of two Pulitzer Prizes for reporting on the Iraq war, Anthony Shadid took a leave of absence from his job as a foreign correspondent for the Washington Post. He had another international assignment, this one self-imposed: to restore the home that his great-grandfather, Isber Samara, built in Jediedet Marjayoun, Lebanon, at the end of the 19th century.

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Kerry Wood had planned to pitch a full and successful season for the Cubs this year. Even though it didn’t turn out that way, Wood made the best of it as he walked away from the game his own way.

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As a narrative convention, the arrival of uninvited guests is a surefire way to create dramatic tension. From E.T. to the ultimate uninvited (and unwelcome) guest, Death, in Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death, the presence of the uninvited can be menacing, amusing or puzzling. In Sadie Jones’s darkly humorous new novel, with its shades of the supernatural, it is all three.

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Charred notebooks lay strewn at the scene of a deadly bomb blast outside a school in Brindisi in southern Italy.

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A swirling mass of thunderstorms off the South Carolina coast has a chance of bringing an early hurricane season.

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Military aircraft have intercepted two small planes in restricted airspace around the G8 Summit at Camp David.

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Three men are arrested when police raid a Chicago apartment and are held on terrorism conspiracy charges.

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The Saint John Sea Dogs are defending Memorial Cup champions and favourites to repeat here this week.

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