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When Michael Dillon is ordered by the IRA to park his car in the carpark of a Belfast hotel, he is faced with a moral choice which leaves him with absolutely nowhere to turn. He knows that he is planting a bomb that would kill and maim dozens of people. But he also knows that if he doesn't, his wife will be killed.

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WINNER OF THE 2010 WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE. Brian Moore, or 'Pitbull' as he came to be known during nearly a decade at the heart of the England rugby team's pack, established himself as one of the game's original hard men at a time when rugby was still an amateur sport. Since his retirement, he has earned a reputation as an equally uncompromising commentator, never afraid to tell it as he sees it and lash out at the money men and professionals that have made rugby into such a different beast. Yet, for all his bullishness on and off the pitch, there also appears a more unconventional, complicated side to the man. A solicitor by trade, Moore's love of fine wine, career experience as a manicurist and preference for reading Shakespeare in the dressing room before games, mark him out as anything but the stereotypical rugby player and in Beware of the Dog Moore lays open with astounding frankness the shocking events, both personal and professional, that have gone towards shaping him over the years. Presenting an unparalleled insight into the mind of one of British rugby's greatest players and characters, Beware of the Dog is a uniquely engaging and upfront sporting memoir, and was a hugely deserving winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year prize.

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La solitaria pasión de Judith Hearne, considerada la obra más influyente del novelista irlandés Brian Moore, narra la historia de la autodestrucción de una mujer honesta pero débil en el Belfast gris de la posguerra. Heredera directa de las solteronas de Dublineses, de James Joyce, Judith Hearne es una mujer de cierta edad que no conoce el amor, y que poco a poco ha ido cayendo socialmente en desgracia. Es pobre, aunque respetable. Vive en casas de huéspedes. Tiene pocos amigos y aquellos de los que está más cerca solo la toleran por lástima. Sometida a los prejuicios y aprensiones de una educación temerosa de Dios y más preocupada por las apariencias que por la consecución de la felicidad, confinada en una ciudad triste y casi inmóvil, lo que poca gente sabe es que Judith tiene una vida secreta. Una vida marcada por el estigma de la botella.Brian Moore, astuto cronista del alma humana, pasó a ser incluido tras la publicación de esta novela, en 1955, en la nómina de los escritores

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When Michael Dillon is ordered by the IRA to park his car in the carpark of a Belfast hotel, he is faced with a moral choice which leaves him absolutely nowhere to turn. He knows that he is planting a bomb that would kill and maim dozens of people. But he also knows that if he doesn't, his wife will be killed.See also: Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane

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