Reading The Bee Sting , I was impressed by your knowledge of Midlands car dealerships, gay clubs, survivalists and the interior life of teenage girls, among many other things. We’re in similar territory to Skippy Dies here, as Cassie and Elaine discover guys and booze; even more so in section two, as PJ mopes around in the woods to escape the atmosphere at home and tries to avoid a beating from a bully. This list includes children’s literature and fiction books geared toward teen and adult bee lovers, but bee lovers of all ages can probably enjoy any book listed below. When a trail of bees leads Albert to Claire’s body, he must finally confront the reasons for their estrangement and find the answers to Claire’s murder. The flashbacks to her childhood, raised in desperate poverty with a violent father, are devastating (“What’s for breakfast Nothing What’s for dinner Nothing”).

It’s a generalisation, obviously, but I feel like Ireland is a place where people are very good at talking.

The Mark and the Void, 2015’s tricksy satire of both the banking crash and the difficult novel-writing business, strayed into metatextual noodling, but with The Bee Sting, Murray is triumphantly back on home turf – troubled adolescents, regretful adults, secrets signposted and exquisitely revealed, each line soaked in irony ranging from the gentle to the savage. The book tells the story of a day in the life of a beekeeper named Ambrose, and how he and his bees are affected by personifications of the four seasons. Paul Murray’s second book, Skippy Dies, was one of the standout novels of the previous decade: a riotously entertaining tragicomedy, set in a posh Dublin boys’ school, in which bone-deep sorrow and pathos cut through the teenage hilarity and fart jokes. Do you think it will affect your livelihood, or does being a novelist insulate you from that concern?

Maya is born during unrest when her hive is dividing into two colonies, and longs for the freedom to explore the outside world. This original poetry collection is inspired by a beekeeping journal that follows a bee colony for one year. A dazzling celebration of bees, packaged in a gorgeous hard backed book made with high- quality paper and spectacular illustrations. The book is fantastic for teaching children the importance of bees and gives examples of ways in which we can help them!Bee species have existed for millions of years - but, as a result of pesticides and the climate crisis, their numbers are now threatened like never before. He uses it as a figure for the unsustainable mania of the Celtic tiger, for the piercing nostalgia surrounding lost youth, for the vanishing of illusions and shared fairytales that allowed this particular family to function. helps leaders in organsiations to motivate and inspire their employees and to communicate their ideas, strategies and objectives. Whereas it’s very different being a teenager now, though in some ways it’s the same – the differences obscure the similarities.

The prize – a golden ' queen bee' statuette and a unique titled copy of the book – would be awarded to the entrant whom Kit Williams judged to have expressed the title in the most interesting way. I started writing it at the end of 2017, with Trump, Brexit, Bolsonaro and climate change [in the news]. Paul uses his many years of business experience working with different organisations all over the world to discuss your specific needs and to work together with you and your employees to help you achieve success and lead your business forward. Kit Williams appeared on the BBC1 chat show Wogan to judge the finalists' entries and announce the winner.But this is happening in tandem with, say, libraries closing, or the phone’s assault on attention spans. We honour Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' continuous connection to Country, waters, skies and communities.