Talking to Strangers: And other ways of being human
| By: | Michael Harding |
| Publisher: | Hachette Books Ireland |
| Published: | January 2017 |
| Pages: | 320 |
| Categories: | Biography |
| Available as: | Paperback |
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'Michael Harding is an author and playwright. His creative chronicle of ordinary life in the Irish midlands is published as a weekly column in The Irish Times. He has written numerous plays for the Abbey Theatre, including Una Pooka,Misogynist and Sour Grapes, and has published three novels, Priest, The Trouble with Sarah Gullion and Bird in the Snow as well as two bestselling memoirs, Staring at Lakes, which won three BGE Irish Book awards, and Hanging with the Elephant '
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