Emma Larkin

"The Lost Cup? You dont want to know about that". Aidan has been thwarted at every turn, in his efforts to find out where the mysterious lost cup is hidden, or if it even really exists. A year after the escapades of Gaelic football mad twins, Aoife and Aidan Power, along with their four best friends in Twin Power: Throw In, the Droichead Beag gang are back!However, all is not rosy. Cracks are starting to show as the gangs strong foundation creaks under the strain of new friendships with players from their rival club Gorman, along with football injuries and tense must win matches.With all this tension in the background, Aidan becomes fixated on finding the mysterious Lost Cup which was allegedly hidden 100 years ago during the Irish Civil War. Why will no one talk to him about it? Will a school trip to the GAA museum in Croke Park shed any light on this mystery? How is the lost cup linked to rivalries between Droichead Beag GAA and Gorman GAA?Can Aoife and Aidan solve this mystery, reunite their gang of friends and return to having fun on the football field?

"Will you please come back and play for the club Aoife?". Aidan asks his twin sister this question every week. Twins, Aoife and Aidan Power, along with their four best friends love playing Gaelic football. They spend most evenings after school playing football in the green in their picturesque rural village of "Droichead Beag". Aoife and Aidan are skilful and fast but when they combine on the same team, "Twin Power" is unleashed and they have an almost telepathic communication on the pitch, leading to some spectacular scores.But while Aoife loves football, an incident at a match almost two years earlier saw her stop training and playing with her local GAA club, Droichead Beag GAA. Aidan knows what happened, but Aoife refuses to tell her friends. Could it have something to do with their Under 12 counterparts in Gorman GAA, the rival parish team of Droichead Beag, where old rivalries run deep?And how will Aoifes refusal to play affect their school team when the childrens teacher Ms. Kelly, herself a former All- Star football player announces an exciting new schools football competition, "Star Schools GAA"?Parish rivalries re-surface and threaten to get out of hand as the children of Droichead Beag National School fight tooth and nail to get their hands on the coveted first ever Star Schools Cup.

Una de las dictaduras más antiguas y brutales gobierna Birmania. Ironías del destino, allí es donde George Orwell ejerció como oficial de la Policía Imperial. Sus libros Rebelión en la granja y 1984 anticipan, en varias decadas, la actual situacion de control total de la poblacion. Por eso muchos birmanos conocen al escritor ingles como El Profeta. Emma Larkin, con las obras de Orwell en el bolsillo, sigue los pasos del escritor y visita los lugares donde vivio: Mandalay, las fangosas regiones del delta del rio Irrawaddy, la ciudad portuaria de Moulmein y las montañas del norte. Su relato presenta una cara del pais que el Gobierno militar no quiere que se conozca, un mundo oculto que solo puede susurrarse, que circula en libros forrados y flota en el aire como los aromaticos vapores en las casas de te.

Aoife and Aidan Power love playing Gaelic football. Theyre so skilful and fast their friends call them Twin Power.Every young Gaelic footballer dreams of playing in Féile, the biggest competition there is. Both Aoife and Aidans teams are vying to qualify, but what will happen now that the twins are on separate boys and girls teams for the first time?With secondary school to navigate, new teams to get used to, and a family mystery to solve its going to be a busy season for Twin Power!

An incisive, unprecedented report on life inside Burma from the author of Finding George Orwell in Burma On May 2, 2008, an enormous tropical cyclone made landfall in Burma, wreaking untold havoc and killing more than 138,000 people. In No Bad News for the King, Emma Larkin, a Westerner who has been traveling to and secretly reporting on Burma for years, uses her extraordinary access and intimate understanding of the Burmese people to deliver a beautifully written and stunningly reported story that has never been told before. Chronicling the tragedy that unfolded in the chaotic days and months that followed the storm, she also examines the secretive politics of Burmas military dictatorship, a regime that relies on vicious military force and a bizarre combination of religion and mysticism to rule the country.