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Love Stories by Trent Dalton Book Review

Trent Dalton is an author that can do absolutely no wrong in my eyes. One of the nicest people I’ve met – and also one of the most passionate and vibrant writers around – it’s easy to see why he’s amassed a legion of loyal fans since the publication of his debut novel, Boy Swallows Universe. Having devoured both his novels, when I heard that he had a new non-fiction out at the end of 2021, I eagerly awaited its publication, and it couldn’t have come at a better time. A book of love stories that were collected from passers-by on the side of a street in Brisbane, where Trent sat with a typewriter and a sign that read ‘sentimental writer collecting love stories’, Love Stories is everything and more than I had hoped it would be, and also offers the perfect remedy to the tense and turbulent eighteen months since Covid began.

Love Stories Book Review

My copy of Love Stories arrived the day before its publication, and despite being in the middle of another book, I started it immediately, and was just seven pages in when I first shed a tear. Shortly after the death of his good friend’s mother, Trent was left her old yet treasured typewriter. Moved by the poignancy of this gesture, and armed with his inherited Olivetti typewriter, Trent took to the streets of Brisbane to ask strangers to tell him a love story.

Moving, poignant and wholly profound, Love Stories is Trent at his very best. His warmth and affability truly shine through each and every story, and it’s impossible to read the tales of love, lust, longing, heartache and grief without having your faith in humanity and in love in all its forms restored.

In Love Stories we meet Reuben Vui – a benevolent Kiwi with leaf-shaped fragments of his grandparents’ wedding rings permanently fixed to his teeth; we read about Trent’s own love story and visit the place where he proposed to his now wife; we learn about love stories between friends; and we meet Rwandan busker, Jean-Benoit Lagarmitte, who – despite being abandoned under a tree as a baby – brings a tangible sense of joy and delight to everyone who encounters his drumming.

Rich with humanity and hope, Love Stories is a timely reminder of both the importance and power of love. To end, my favourite quote: “Love is knowing when you’ve come home.”

Love Stories Summary

Trent Dalton, Australia’s best-loved writer, goes out into the world and asks a simple, direct question: ‘Can you please tell me a love story?’

A blind man yearns to see the face of his wife of thirty years. A divorced mother has a secret love affair with a priest. A geologist discovers a three-minute video recorded by his wife before she died. A tree lopper’s heart falls in a forest. A working mum contemplates taking photographs of her late husband down from her fridge. A girl writes a last letter to the man she loves most, then sets it on fire. A palliative care nurse helps a dying woman converse with the angel at the end of her bed. A renowned 100-year-old scientist ponders the one great earthly puzzle he was never able to solve: ‘What is love?’

Endless stories. Human stories. Love stories.

Inspired by a personal moment of profound love and generosity, Trent Dalton, bestselling author and one of Australia’s finest journalists, spent two months in 2021 speaking to people from all walks of life, asking them one simple and direct question: ‘Can you please tell me a love story?’ The result is an immensely warm, poignant, funny and moving book about love in all its guises, including observations, reflections and stories of people falling into love, falling out of love, and never letting go of the loved ones in their hearts. A heartfelt, deep, wise and tingly tribute to the greatest thing we will never understand and the only thing we will ever really need: love.

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Trent Dalton author bio

Trent Dalton writes for the award-winning The Weekend Australian Magazine. A former assistant editor of The Courier-Mail, he has won a Walkley, been a four-time winner of the national News Awards Feature Journalist of the Year Award, and was named Queensland Journalist of the Year at the 2011 Clarion Awards for excellence in Queensland media. His writing includes several short and feature-length film screenplays. His latest feature film screenplay, Home, is a love story inspired by his non-fiction collection Detours: Stories from the Street (2011), the culmination of three months immersed in Brisbane’s homeless community, the proceeds of which went back to the 20 people featured within its pages. His journalism has twice been nominated for a United Nations of Australia Media Peace Award, and his debut novel Boy Swallows Universe was published in 2018.

He was nominated for a 2010 AFI Best Short Fiction screenplay award for his latest film, Glenn Owen Dodds, starring David Wenham. The film won the prestigious International Prix Canal award at the world’s largest short film festival, The Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival in France. Dalton’s debut feature film screenplay, In the Silence, is currently in production.

Trent also hosted the ABC Conversations show while Richard Fidler was on a Churchill Fellowship.

Other Trent Dalton books

Trent Dalton has also written Boy Swallows Universe and All Our Shimmering Skies .

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TRENT DALTON Love Stories. Reviewed by Suzanne Marks

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The bestselling novelist brings together real-life love stories in this collection.

How this book came together is as intrinsic to its existence as the 150 love stories it contains. It opens with Dalton’s letter to his friend Kathleen Kelly, who has ‘bowed out to death on Christmas Day’. She is his mate Greg’s mother and as dear to him as family. On the day of her funeral, Greg gives Dalton Kath’s beautiful sky-blue Olivetti Studio 44 typewriter, and tells him that she especially wanted him to have it. Deeply moved, he immediately vows to use that typewriter to write something special. With Love Stories he has more than kept his vow.

Dalton collected his material by walking Brisbane’s streets for two months and asking passers-by to tell him their love stories. Then for two weeks he set up a collapsible table, two second-hand chairs and his beautiful Olivetti typewriter on a busy corner of Brisbane’s CBD with a sign reading Sentimental writer collecting love stories. Do you have one to share?

Like his two highly acclaimed novels, Boy Swallows Universe (2018)and All Our Shimmering Skies (2020), Love Stories reminds us of the value of humanity, and the love and hope we bring to the world. Despite global pandemics, wars in faraway places and climate change disasters threatening to extinguish hope and turn us against each other, these stories reveal our enduring capacity to love, nurture, and hold fast to those we hold dear.

Some of the most beautiful and tender narratives come from Dalton himself. We see how alive he is to this world he inhabits:

You would not believe the things people tell you when you take the time to shut the hell up and listen. The wisdoms, the secrets and stories so heartbreaking, triumphant, romantic, exhilarating, hilarious, tragic and wondrous, just like this life.

Story one is titled ‘Two Believers’, about Helen and her husband Norman Clark, who died six years before. ‘I believe in love,’ Dalton tells Helen as she settles into the collapsible chair. ‘Oh me too,’ she replies as she starts to unravel the unlikely events that brought her and Norm together. Despite driving her home every week, it was two long years before ‘he first delivered his first perfect and delicious kiss’. When she asked him why it took him so long, he replied: ‘Because I never had a chance. You always had a cigarette hangin’ from your mouth.’ Helen deeply mourns all those lost kisses and shakes her fist in frustration at the time they wasted. Dalton now knows what love is: ‘It is two years of not being kissed by Norm Clark.’

Then in ‘Love is Blindness’, Rene and her dog Cassie stop by. Rene wraps her arms around Cassie’s neck cooing, ‘I dooooooo love you soooooo. ’ Rene suffers from retinitis pigmentosa, an inherited eye disease that started to set in at age 36. Knowing that blindness was coming, she committed every feature of her daughter’s face to memory – the contours of her cheekbones, her eye colour, ‘what her daughter’s lips do when she smiles’. But she sorrows that she has never seen her 11-year-old grandson’s face. Dalton muses that if by some quirk of the universe Rene was granted five minutes of sight , she would commit every second to memorising every detail of her grandson’s face.

We meet Will and Sarah, who, within the first few hours of meeting, shared their first kiss bouncing on a trampoline under a perfect starry sky as ‘the man in the moon was eating his popcorn’. They have two little boys and exude the weariness of young parents. Will is a merchant seaman, which frequently takes him away on long sea voyages. He tells how, when he is heading for home and first sees land, he knows that it is home because home is where Sarah is.

In ‘YES’, Chloe recalls the time she was at the top of the Eiffel Tower and heard a gasp from the tourists standing behind her, and the sound of a girl crying. She turned to see that the girl’s boyfriend had dropped to one knee and asked her to marry him. Through the girl’s tears Chloe heard her say oui, and she ruminates on how her father proposed to her mother in a bar after a soccer match. ‘Where would you do something like that in Brisbane?’ she asks. Dalton agrees there is no Eiffel Tower in Brisbane, but ‘we do have Thurlow Street’, where he proposed to his wife, from the gutter, and goes on to tell the story.

I recommend that you take time to read the table of contents. For me it was the ball of string by which I followed Dalton as he wove his way through the labyrinth of anecdotes to find what love is, in all its various manifestations. Intriguing titles include ‘The Actress Breaking Up With Her Boyfriend in Her Underwear After a Two-Day Drive from Tasmania’; ‘The Importance of Bear Hugs and Falling in Love with a Married Man Back When Telephones Were Still Stuck on the Wall’, ‘Love and the Institute of Chartered Accountants, 1913’ and ‘Waiting for the Icicle to Fall’.

On this ordinary Brisbane street, in the midst of everyday life, engaging with people going about their daily lives, Dalton has chronicled an array of human experience that confirms again and again that, regardless of gender, ethnicity, sexual identity, personality type and context, we humans are filled with love and a willingness to believe that it can also shape our world. This is how we stay connected to what is indestructible in ourselves; it is love, loyalty and compassion that keep us connected to our hearts, to each other, and thus to what is best in ourselves. This book will stay on my keeper shelf for many years to come.

Trent Dalton Love Stories Fourth Estate 2021 HB 352pp $32.99

Suzanne Marks is a member of the Board of the Jessie Street National Women’s Library and the Sydney University Chancellor’s Committee. Her professional life has been in equity, human rights, teaching and conflict resolution.

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Book Review: Love Stories, by Trent Dalton

Updated: Oct 21, 2022

In the middle of a Brisbane lockdown, Trent Dalton decided to drag a trestle table, chairs and an old typewriter across Southbank so that he could sit outside on the river and collect love stories. Extraordinary stories from ordinary, extraordinary people, in which love is found, lost, cherished and strengthened. The selfishness and fear of COVID-19 brewed a determination in Trent to find the everyday beauty – and the love stories – in everyday experiences.

This synopsis alone could probably stand as my review – the stories made my chest hurt in such a good way. I was so sick of reading news headlines that made my heart flutter with anxiety; I was so sick of feeling afraid and bitter, and seeing that reflected in other people. This book gave me so much hope, and I felt this overwhelming sense of relief because it shows that humans are intrinsically good, not hurtful, beings.

We’re capable of a lot of hate and horror, but we’re also capable of vibrant love and incredible selflessness. That was so beautiful to read, and I'm so grateful that Trent thought to bring that to his publisher.

Maddy holds up a copy of Love Stories, by Trent Dalton, in 2021. Photo: Madeleine Corbel.

The structure of Love Stories is very episodic. Sometimes, a person will get a whole chapter or section for their story. Sometimes, their stories are combined with others'. And sometimes, Trent migrates for a moment to his own life, his own reflections on his personal history and what it feels like to be in his body, sat on the open street in Brisbane.

Some of my favourite passages were the moments that Trent noticed and noted – the leaves on the street, the murky brown colour of the river's water, the father at the streetlight, holding his daughter's hand.

Some of these, however, felt a little self-congratulatory. In my very personal opinion, Trent felt sometimes like the sole narrator of the world – he went to great lengths to describe the beauty of singular moments, without accounting outwardly for the privilege of being an author.

I had a big discussion with my sister about this (which was another beautiful outcome of the book): we were talking about the role of the author and how it can be romanticised. As if the author is on high, looking down on the rest of society, the rest of the world.

Lindsay Ellis contemplates the theory behind the death of the author in literature. Video : 'Death of the Author', by Lindsay Ellis.

I will keep thinking on this though – to me, Trent Dalton seems like a wonderfully down-to-earth person who's had to work extremely hard to get to the position where he is able to sit on a street corner and listen to strangers' tales. I'm very sure that it's my own bitterness and scepticism that got in my way during some of those flowery passages, because his writing is a joy to read.

It's almost as if I'm searching for something to cricitise – I was so thoroughly moved by this book and its 'characters'. I'll be definitely recommending it to friends and family as a tonic to lockdowns and stress. It was easy to read, lovely to pick up and put down, beautifully structured and so bloody powerful.

I feel like one of the only Australians who's never read Boy Swallows Universe , so I'll definitely be rectifying that mistake this year! A wonderful author, a beautiful collection of people and an important, poignant book. I'm so glad and grateful that I got to read it.

As always, thanks a bunch for reading with me,

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While reading Love Stories I started to get an earworm: Paul McCartney’s Silly Love Songs . I also had an urge to go and reread A.D. Hope’s The Death of the Bird because of that heart-stirring line: “Love pricks the course in lights across the chart.” It’s the kind of book that has some impact on the reader.

When the mother of a friend of Trent Dalton died, she left him her blue Olivetti typewriter. This moved him to take it to a street corner in the Brisbane CBD and solicit love stories from anyone and everyone. Dalton, Walkley-winning journalist and author of the novels Boy Swallows Universe and All Our Shimmering Skies , set himself a huge task and his book shows that he went about it with honesty and a certain humility, getting strangers to confide, with an obvious willingness to learn and to listen. These qualities allow each story he records to be individual, distinct. It’s a Chaucerian endeavour, a rich caravanserai of real, living people with something important to tell.

Trent Dalton’s Love Stories is much more than a bag of unconnected snippets. Credit: Paul Harris

At this point we start to think of what the word “love” means, and that gets tricky because the more we observe the phenomenon, the more we accumulate information and the less we are able to produce a definition shorter than, well, a book. Dalton certainly tries to convey what love means, at times scatter-gunning images that reference belief in love as much as love itself. So we read that love is someone giving you a meaningful Cherry Ripe, or it’s a warm bowl, or it’s “the opposite of dark matter – light matter”; or it’s ambiguous, or deep, or complex or simple. Or it’s an orchid.

The images all have absolute validity in their contexts, each person’s unique universe of experience underpinning each testimony. Dalton quotes Alex Wittmann, a counsellor who works in many areas including post-suicide support, and who offers the teleological approach: describing what love does rather than defining what it is. Wittman said that analogies help us discern what the meaning of love is: “The analogy might be, ‘Love is like the sun’. We cannot look directly at it, but we see our world because of it, and experience its many life-giving functions.”

It’s an approach exactly like Paul’s, two millennia ago, writing to the Corinthians, saying that love is kind and patient, always rejoices in truth and never ends. Like Paul and like Wittman, Dalton doesn’t say that he has love’s definition down pat, sewn up and tidy; his plethoric approach tries to cover as many bases as possible.

That means Love Stories isn’t something to read in one go; I found each of the short pieces to be an easy read, but then would find myself putting it down to have a think about what I’d just read. Love is a centenarian scientist telling of his search for knowledge, and of his certainty that science can’t define love. Love is a woman who is getting over a heroin addiction. Love is a widowed father emu caring for two chicks when his life-mate is killed. Each of Dalton’s stories implicitly invites the reader’s reciprocation; the emu story brought to my mind the recent little tragedy of the Collins Street peregrine falcons, that devoted pair raising four chicks, only to lose one to a wasting disease.

Towards the end Dalton places a short piece of writing titled The Cradle , which must be called poetry because it sings and swings competing truths without the pesky shackles of prose, scaffolded only by his love of language, his brain and heart all flashing insights. If it recalls Walt Whitman’s Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking , all the better, because Dalton’s Cradle echoes Whitman’s and distils something cogent and universal from it, something that ends ecstatically in a sort of mystic rocking repetition: “The love … the love … the love… the love…”

All through the book he’s asking the important questions about what love means to different hearts and minds. The book is lavish with “Love is …” aphorisms that describe love for a situation, for a person, for a story, for a conversation. Each one valid for a moment; sometimes evanescent but never reductive, never cheap. Love Stories is much more than a bag of unconnected snippets; it’s linked by the author himself, his own open-hearted search shared with his wife, his contributors and ultimately with us, the readers.

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Love Stories by Trent Dalton

The idea behind Trent Dalton’s latest book, Love Stories , is absolutely gorgeous – it started with a sky-blue 1960s Olivetti typewriter (the much-loved machine of his best mate’s mum). Add a portable table, a sign stating ‘Sentimental Writer Collecting Love Stories’, and a couple of months on a busy street in Brisbane, and the result was a collection of stories about the many facets of love – love that is sustained, lost, returned, unrequited, deep, or fleeting…

The stories about love are shared by ordinary people, and Dalton intersperses his own insights throughout. A woman who rues years of smoking because they cost her a kiss – “…love is two years of not being kissed by Norm Clark” ; a blind man who yearns to see the face of his wife of thirty years (made me cry); the deep connection between life-long friends, Rhonda and Rachele (reminded me of this article by Dalton); and a widower who miraculously finds a three-minute video recorded by his wife before she died.

I’m not sure how he does it, but Dalton manages to write with delicacy and raw emotion at the same time. In a story about a mum who contemplates removing the photographs of her late husband (tragically killed in a freak accident) from the fridge, he says –

Letting go. Who would ever do such a thing? Let go of the one you love? Let them go from your heart, from your memory, from the door of your fridge?… She will never let him go. She will never stop staring at the pictures on the refrigerator. She will not protect herself from the feeling of love. She will cry her eyes out when she needs to until the day she dies and she will feel every bit of the ache of true love. She will weep, she will hurt, she will feel and then she will breathe and then she will dry her eyes and then she will smile and then she will take the frozen peas out of the freezer.

Naturally I was drawn to the stories that had an element of grief and, as is frequently the case with Dalton’s writing, what seems happy, suddenly takes a turn and I find myself crying. In reflecting on his relationship with his own father, Dalton says –

And it seems so fucking tragic and absurd to me now, and it hurts so fucking hard to confess through the tears that fall from my eyes, as I sit here on the corner of Adelaide and Albert streets in a busy world without him in it, that the longest hug I ever shared with my dad was the one we shared when he was dead.

Some readers will find this book saccharine, and to be frank, Dalton loves a metaphor and perhaps leans on them a little too hard in spots. But overall, I found his words a tonic. His joy and delight, his wonder, and his curiosity comes through in every story. Psychologist Carl Rogers had a number of principles underpinning his approach to person-centred therapy. One of these principles is unconditional positive regard , and it is something I saw evidence of in Dalton’s collection of stories. And I reckon that’s a rare thing to capture on the page.

4/5 Charming.

One of the stories in this collection revolves around a shared love for Cherry Ripe bars.

‘Dad bought that Cherry Ripe and he shared it with Mum… they didn’t have any money, those two. And when you don’t have any money, something as small as a Cherry Ripe can mean so much.’ Their love was true. Their love had a coconut and cherry centre. Their love was sealed and wrapped for eternity in rich dark chocolate.

There are lots of baked slice versions of Cherry Ripes, but my absolute favourite is the recipe my Nan always made from a Women’s Weekly cookbook – Cherry Coconut Slice .

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Cynthia Morahan reviews Love Stories by Trent Dalton, published by HarperCollins.

Cynthia says: This is a perfect book for people who hate small talk. It’s poetic, with little definitions of love throughout.

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WINNER, INDIE BOOK AWARDS 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR

Trent Dalton, Australia's best-loved writer, goes out into the world and asks a simple, direct question: 'Can you please tell me a love story?'

A blind man yearns to see the face of his wife of thirty years. A divorced mother has a secret love affair with a priest. A geologist discovers a three-minute video recorded by his wife before she died. A tree lopper's heart falls in a forest. A working mum contemplates taking photographs of her late husband down from her fridge. A girl writes a last letter to the man she loves most, then sets it on fire. A palliative care nurse helps a dying woman converse with the angel at the end of her bed. A renowned 100-year-old scientist ponders the one great earthly puzzle he was never able to solve: 'What is love?'

Endless stories. Human stories. Love stories .

Inspired by a personal moment of profound love and generosity, Trent Dalton, bestselling author and one of Australia's finest journalists, spent two months in 2021 speaking to people from all walks of life, asking them one simple and direct question: 'Can you please tell me a love story?' The result is an immensely warm, poignant, funny and moving book about love in all its guises, including observations, reflections and stories of people falling into love, falling out of love, and never letting go of the loved ones in their hearts. A heartfelt, deep, wise and tingly tribute to the greatest thing we will never understand and the only thing we will ever really need: love.

'It's the kind of book that has some impact on the reader ... a Chaucerian endeavour, a rich caravanserai of real, living people with something important to tell.' Sydney Morning Herald

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Title: Love Stories
Author: Trent Dalton
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9781460760932
Length: 220.0 millimetre
Width: 161.0 millimetre
Subtitle: Uplifting True Stories about Love from the Internationally Bestselling Author of Boy Swallows Universe
Format: HardCover
Category: Entertainment , General Biographies , Relationships , True Crime
Subjects: Biography & True Stories , True Stories , Family & relationships , 21st century , Australia , Dating, relationships, living together & marriage , Autobiography: arts & entertainment , Queensland , Local and family history, nostalgia , Biography and non-fiction prose , True stories: general , Biography: general , Autobiography: arts and entertainment , Family & Relationships / Love & Romance , Biography & Autobiography / General , Biography & Autobiography / Editors, Journalists, Publishers , Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs Show more less
Publication Date: 27/10/2021
Height: 32.0 millimetre
Weight: 520.0 gram
Country of publication: Australia

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Love Stories
Uplifting True Stories About Love from the Internationally Bestselling Author of Boy Swallows Universe

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Narrated by: Trent Dalton
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In Build the Life You Want , Arthur C. Brooks and Oprah Winfrey invite you to begin a journey toward greater happiness no matter how challenging your circumstances. Drawing on cutting-edge science and their years of helping people translate ideas into action, they show you how to improve your life right now instead of waiting for the outside world to change.

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As David Brooks observes, “There is one skill that lies at the heart of any healthy person, family, school, community organization, or society: the ability to see someone else deeply and make them feel seen—to accurately know another person, to let them feel valued, heard, and understood.” And yet we humans don’t do this well. All around us are people who feel invisible, unseen, misunderstood. In How to Know a Person, Brooks sets out to help us do better, posing questions that are essential for all of us: If you want to know a person, what kind of attention should you cast on them?

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An Enjoyable Cup of Coffee Awaits

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Worth All the Buzz

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Richard E. Grant emigrated from Swaziland to London in 1982, with dreams of making it as an actor. Unexpectedly, he met and fell in love with a renowned dialect coach Joan Washington. Their relationship and marriage, navigating the highs and lows of Hollywood, parenthood, and loss, lasted almost forty years. When Joan died in 2021, her final challenge to him was to find a “pocketful of happiness in every day.”

A touching, true story, wonderfully read

By L. Wong on 10-18-23

Publisher's summary

WINNER, INDIE BOOK AWARDS 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR

Trent Dalton, Australia's best-loved writer, goes out into the world and asks a simple, direct question: 'Can you please tell me a love story?'

A blind man yearns to see the face of his wife of thirty years. A divorced mother has a secret love affair with a priest. A geologist discovers a three-minute video recorded by his wife before she died. A tree lopper's heart falls in a forest. A working mum contemplates taking photographs of her late husband down from her fridge. A girl writes a last letter to the man she loves most, then sets it on fire. A palliative care nurse helps a dying woman converse with the angel at the end of her bed. A renowned 100-year-old scientist ponders the one great earthly puzzle he was never able to solve: "What is love?"

Endless stories. Human stories. Love stories .

Inspired by a personal moment of profound love and generosity, Trent Dalton, bestselling author and one of Australia's finest journalists, spent two months in 2021 speaking to people from all walks of life, asking them one simple and direct question: "Can you please tell me a love story?" The result is an immensely warm, poignant, funny and moving book about love in all its guises, including observations, reflections and stories of people falling into love, falling out of love, and never letting go of the loved ones in their hearts. A heartfelt, deep, wise and tingly tribute to the greatest thing we will never understand and the only thing we will ever really need: love.

"It's the kind of book that has some impact on the reader...a Chaucerian endeavour, a rich caravanserai of real, living people with something important to tell." ( Sydney Morning Herald)

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"It's the kind of book that has some impact on the reader ... a Chaucerian endeavour, a rich caravanserai of real, living people with something important to tell." — Sydney Morning Herald

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All of This

A Memoir of Death and Desire

By: Rebecca Woolf

Narrated by: Rebecca Woolf
Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 171
Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 157
Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 157

After years of struggling in a tumultuous marriage, writer Rebecca Woolf was finally ready to leave her husband. Two weeks after telling him she wanted a divorce, he was diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer. Four months later, at the age of forty-four, he died. In All of This , Woolf chronicles the months before her husband’s death—and her rebirth after he was gone. With rigorous honesty and incredible awareness, she reflects on the end of her marriage: how her husband’s illness finally gave her the space to make peace with his humanity and her own.

excellentt!

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Narrated by: Emma Forrest
Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
Overall 4 out of 5 stars 341
Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 317
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Emma Forrest, a British journalist, was just 22 and living the fast life in New York City when she realized that her quirks had gone beyond eccentricity. In a cycle of loneliness, damaging relationships, and destructive behavior, she found herself in the chair of a slim, balding, and effortlessly optimistic psychiatrist--a man whose wisdom and humanity would wrench her from the dangerous tide after she tried to end her life.

Great, quick read

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When high-school teacher Caelum Quirk and his wife, Maureen, move to Littleton, Colorado, they both get jobs at Columbine High School. In April 1999, while Caelum is away, Maureen finds herself in the library at Columbine, cowering in a cabinet and expecting to be killed. Miraculously, she survives. But when Caelum and Maureen flee to an illusion of safety on the Quirk family's Connecticut farm, they discover that the effects of chaos are not easily put right.

excellent all around yarn

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Woodrow McIlmore, the town's golden boy and local gynecologist, is married to his beautiful high school sweetheart, Milan, and seems by all appearances to be leading the perfect life with his two children and extended family and friends. But when Wood's daughter announces that she is smitten with a college classmate and intends to marry him, her parents are stunned.

Deeply moving, a great listen

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Nora and Theresa Flynn are 21 and 17 when they leave their small village in Ireland and journey to America. Nora is the responsible sister; she's shy and serious and engaged to a man she isn't sure that she loves. Theresa is gregarious; she is thrilled by their new life in Boston and besotted with the fashionable dresses and dance halls on Dudley Street. But when Theresa ends up pregnant, Nora is forced to come up with a plan - a decision with repercussions they are both far too young to understand.

The narration ruined it

By Janis Reynolds on 06-12-17

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Overall 4 out of 5 stars 99
Performance 4 out of 5 stars 82
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Michael Hainey had just turned six when his uncle knocked on his family's back door one morning with the tragic news: Bob Hainey, Michael's father, was found alone near his car on Chicago's North Side, dead, of an apparent heart attack. Thirty-five years old, a young assistant copy desk chief at the Chicago Sun-Times, Bob was a bright and shining star in the competitive, hard-living world of newspapers, one that involved booze-soaked nights that bled into dawn. And then suddenly he was gone.

Son's Search for Father Brings on Self-knowledge

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Performance 5 out of 5 stars 42
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Tamila Soroush wanted it all. But in the Islamic Republic of Iran, dreams are a dangerous thing for a girl. Tami abandons them…until her twenty-seventh birthday, when her parents give her a one-way ticket to America, hoping she will “go and wake up her luck.” If they have their way, Tami will never return to Iran…which means she has three months to find a husband in America.

Rooting for freedom

By Newman on 07-10-13

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Surviving the Wilderness, My Family and Myself

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Narrated by: Cea Sunrise Person
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In her best-selling memoir North of Normal , Cea wrote with grace about her unconventional childhood - her early years living in a tipi in Alberta with her pot-smoking, free-loving counterculture family. But her struggles do not end when she leaves her family at the age of 13 to become a model. Honest and daring, Nearly Normal reveals the many ways that Cea's unconventional childhood continues to reverberate through the years.

This one is just not for me

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Story 4 out of 5 stars 3,202

Jonathan Safran Foer's best-selling debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated , wowed critics on its way to winning several literary prizes, including Book of the Year honors from the Los Angeles Times . It has been published in 24 countries and will soon be a major motion picture. Foer's talent continues to shine in this sometimes hilarious and always heartfelt follow-up.

Hard book to review

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When Nicole Hardy’s eye-opening "Modern Love" column appeared in the New York Times, the response from readers was overwhelming. Hardy’s essay, which exposed the conflict between being true to herself as a woman and remaining true to her Mormon faith, struck a chord with women coast-to-coast. Now in her funny, intimate, and thoughtful memoir, Nicole Hardy explores how she came, at the age of 35, to a crossroads regarding her faith and her identity.

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Dreadful audio quality

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Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 86
Performance 5 out of 5 stars 75
Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 75

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Wonderful story and narration!

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Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Book Review of Love Stories by Trent Dalton

Trent Dalton is a writer who, in my eyes, can do absolutely nothing wrong. One of the nicest people I’ve ever met – and also one of the most passionate and dynamic writers of all time – it’s easy to see why he’s amassed a legion of loyal Fans since the release of his first novel, Boy Swallows Universe. After devouring his two novels when I learned that he was releasing a new non-fiction book at the end of 2021, I was looking forward to its release, and it couldn’t have come at a better time. A book of love stories collected by passers-by by the roadside in Brisbane, where Trent was sitting with a typewriter and a sign reading “The sentimental writer collects love stories”. Love stories are everything and more than I hoped for, and they also offer the perfect cure for the tense and tumultuous eighteen months since the start of Recent time.

Book Review Of Love Stories

My copy of Love Stories arrived the day before it was due to be released, and even though I was in the middle of another book, I started right away, and was only seven pages long when I shed a tear for the first time. Shortly after the passed away of his good friend’s mother, Trent was left with her old but precious typewriter. Moved by the strength of this Gesture and armed with his inherited Olivetti typewriter, Trent took to the streets of Brisbane to ask strangers to tell him a love story.

Moving, poignant and very deep, the love stories are Trent at his best. His warmth and kindness really shine through every story, and it is impossible to read the stories of love, lust, desire, grief and sorrow without restoring your faith in humanity and in love in all its forms.

In the love stories, we meet Reuben Vui – a benevolent Kiwi with leaf-shaped fragments of his grandparents’ wedding rings permanently attached to his teeth; we read about Trent’s own love story and visit the place where he proposed to his current wife; we discover love stories between friends; and we meet the Rwandan street musician Jean – Benoit Lagarmitte, who – although he was abandoned under a tree when he was a baby-gives a palpable feeling of joy and joy to everyone who meets his drum.

Rich in humanity and hope, love stories are a timely reminder of the importance and power of love. Finally, my favorite quote: “Love is knowing when you’ve come home.”

Summary Of Love Stories

Trent Dalton, Australia’s most popular writer, goes out into the world and asks a simple and direct question: “Can you please tell me a love story?’

A blind man longs to see the face of his thirty-year-old wife. A annulmentd mother has a secret love affair with a priest. A geologist discovers a three-minute video recorded by his wife before her passed away. The heart of a tree cutter falls in a forest. A working mother plans to photograph her after husband from her refrigerator. A Girl writes a last letter to the man she loves the most, and then turns it on. A palliative care nurse helps a dying woman to chat with the angel at the end of her bed. A renowned 100-year-old scientist reflects on the one great earthly riddle that he has never been able to solve: What is love?’

Endless Stories. Human Stories. Love story.

Inspired by a personal Moment of deep love and generosity, Trent Dalton, bestselling author and one of Australia’s best journalists, spent two months in 2021 talking to people from all walks of life and asking them a simple and direct question: “Can you please tell me a love story? The result is an incredibly warm, poignant, funny and moving book about love in all its manifestations, including observations, reflections and stories of people who fall in love, who fall in love and never let go of loved ones in their hearts. A sincere, deep, wise and sparkling homage to the greatest thing we will never understand and to the only thing we will really need: Love.

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Found's Brett Dalton Previews The Aftermath Of Sir's Big Cliffhanger And Trent's Top Priority For Gabi

Found could get even more complicated soon.

Mark-Paul Gosselaar as Sir and Brett Dalton as Trent in NBC's Found Season 1

Found arrived in the 2023 TV schedule as an intense freshman series bringing Shameless ' Shanola Hampton, Pitch 's Mark-Paul Gosselaar, and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 's Brett Dalton together in some very new roles. The seventh episode of NBC's drama ended with the shocking reveal that Sir had been spotted in Gabi's neighborhood , with an alarmed Trent breaking the news to her and Lacey, completely unaware of Gabi's big secret. Dalton spoke with CinemaBlend ahead of the new episode on November 21 to preview the aftermath of that cliffhanger and his character's #1 priority with Sir potentially on the loose.

There are still more questions than answers about who reportedly saw Sir and how Sir escaped Gabi's basement if he is indeed out and about in her neighborhood, but it's safe to say that her secret could be in even more danger than when Sir had the chance to alert Trent to his presence . When I spoke with Brett Dalton ahead of the November 21 episode, called "Missing While Homeless," I asked the actor whether Trent's top priority will be hunting down Sir or protecting Gabi by her side. He previewed:

I think that probably finding Sir is the ultimate way to protect Gabi, because him being out there is a constant threat. It's a constant trigger to all of her trauma, and Trent is someone who is a good guy and has some trauma of his own, I'm sure as we all do, but I don't think that it's exactly the same. Gabi is a kidnapping survivor who saved herself, and I think maybe deep down, Trent feels like he can be of service to her and to fix her in a way and protect her. He's constantly there as a safe harbor in a life that has been so tumultuous. I think they're both kind of on the same plane. Capturing Sir would would be the ultimate way of protecting Gabi.

Trent's support of Gabi throughout the first season has clearly meant a lot to him, as she opened up to him about her father in a way that she didn't with members of her team . That said, she has a very big secret locked up in her basement that prevents her from being honest with him, so it remains to be seen if his desire to "fix her" and "protect her" will be welcomed by her in the next episode!

Found has yet to actually reveal how Gabi caught Sir in the first place, so it'll be interesting to see Trent's approach to him potentially being on the loose again. Just like the Annie mystery , it's possible that the truth behind how she captured him has a large part to play later in the series.

I noted to Brett Dalton that I loved the moment in last week's cliffhanger when Trent was immediately concerned for Lacey as well as Gabi, and I asked how important the team is to his character, despite Trent not actually being a member. Dalton explained:

In a word, extremely. I think that he probably feels more of a kinship with that team than his own police department. There's clearly a lot of friction with the captain who's played brilliantly, by the way, by Billy [Kelly] and who's actually a nice guy in real life. But [Trent] is a third generation detective who is working in a police department that doesn't seem to care, and here is a team of survivors with their own stories, who are somehow turning all of their pain into purpose and solving these cases that the police department can't even be bothered with looking at, let alone solving.

Trent has already learned that he can't exactly bend all the rules that Gabi can without repercussions, as he was suspended from his job as a detective. The odds currently don't appear to be in his favor of returning to good standing among his peers in the police, but if the first seven episodes of Found are any indication, it's always good to expect the unexpected. Dalton continued:

The team is incredibly important. I think that if there [wasn't] such loyalty to his father and that line of work, I could see Trent being a part of that team. And in a way I think that he is an honorable member, and I even got a chance to take a shot with them and toast to the found members. I mean, I think that I am part of that team, but I am also part of the system and I'm trying my best to bend the wheels of justice in the direction of the forgotten.

Will Mark Trent ever become an official part of Gabi's team, and take a shot with them every single week that they find a missing person? Only time will tell, and the show is still early in its run. NBC hasn't confirmed whether or not Found will be renewed for Season 2, but the network has announced its release dates for the early 2024 TV schedule . Found will air its final two Season 1 episodes in the new year, starting on Tuesday, January 9 following La Brea , which has its own major cliffhangers to resolve .

For now, be sure to tune in to Found 's "Missing While Homeless" on November 21 at 10 p.m. ET on NBC, following the latest episode of The Voice . You can also revisit the earlier episodes of Season 1 streaming with a Peacock Premium subscription .

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3d ago Match report: Manchester City 1-1 Liverpool
3d ago Full time: Manchester City 1-1 Liverpool
3d ago GOAL! Manchester City 1-1 Liverpool (Alexander-Arnold 80)
3d ago Manchester City 1-0 Liverpool
3d ago GOAL! Manchester City 2-0 Liverpool (Dias 67)
3d ago Second half: Manchester City 1-0 Liverpool
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3d ago GOAL! Manchester City 1-0 Liverpool (Haaland 27)
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3d ago Premier League: Manchester City v Liverpool

Trent Alexander-Arnold celebrates after scoring to make it 1-1.

Pep Guardiola: “That was an excellent performance,” says City’s manager in an interview with the BBC. “I am really proud that after eight years we are still playing that way. We were really good in all departments and needed to be against an incredible team.

“Maybe we missed the last pass a little bit but they defended really well. To concede just two shots on target against Liverpool is a big compliment for the way we work.”

Match report: Manchester City 1-1 Liverpool

Premier League: Trent Alexander-Arnold cancelled out Erling Haaland’s 50th Premier League goal as Liverpool grabbed a point against champions and title rivals Manchester City . David Hytner reports from the Etihad Stadium …

Jurgen Klopp: “It’s a really good moment,” says Liverpool’s manager in an interview with Sky Sports. “It’s a tough place to come – it’s no coincidence that they win that many home games. You’d need more time to prepare for the game properly, especially in these kind of circumstances.

“We’re still in a process. If we’d played really well today, we could have won – we didn’t. We played OK. We caused them problems as well, but our good moments didn’t feel that good to us [in the first half]. We had to stretch ourselves again [in the second half]. We adapted our positioning slightly. Unfortunately we lost Diogo [Jota], with Ali we’ll have to see.

“I told the boys at half-time, imagine what it would be like if we were playing well. We had to settle a little bit. Putting Trent in a different position defensively, plus Dom [Szoboszlai] and Mo [Salah] closing that gap in the second half gave us much more stability. From there we could play football ourselves.

“We had good moments. I wish we could have had more. For the moment we’re in, we should take the point as a success. I have nothing to complain about there. Trent made a difference today. Before we start talking about positioning, I think it helps us having him on the right wing from time to time.”

Trent Alexander-Arnold: “It’s definitely a result that’s better than what we got here last year,” says Liverpool’s goalscorer in an interview with Sky Sports. “We havern’t had too many good results here in general, to be honest. It’s a points game and we’ll take the point because it wasn’t an amazing performance from us at all. We take the point and there was positives. We had chances to win the game.

“I don’t think we played particularly well, first half especially. TYheir formation and the way they set up really challenged us. They have a lot of bodies in there and it’s difficult to play afgainst them. We regrouped at half-time and came out with a bit more of a game plan to press them. It’s always difficult because subconsciously when you play against Manchester City you’ve got a lot of respect for them and the way they play.

“You think you can’t really get tight to their players and you stand off them a little bit. That seemed to be the problem in the first half. In the second half we put that respect to the side to try to get a result and that’s what we did.”

A quick recap: Perhaps it’s down to the early kick-off time or the international break, but this was a very odd, occasionally entertaining game that neither team seemed hugely fussed about winning. There was precious little urgency from either side, even after Manchester City went ahead through Erling Haaland. Liverpool conjured up a fine equaliser through Trent Alexander-Arnold and were able to resist some late pressure from their hosts in added time.

Liverpool will be pleased with the draw but look like they might be without their first choice goalkeeper for a few weeks, as Alisson pulled up in the dying seconds with what looked like a case of hammy-twang. Sunderland’s ancient record of 24 consecutive home wins remains intact, as City have failed to win today after 23 victories on the bounce at the Etihad.

Full time: Manchester City 1-1 Liverpool

Peep! Peep! Peeeeeeeeep! It’s all over at the Etihad, where the points have been shared. City stay top of the table, with Liverpool just a point behind them in second.

90+8 min: Oof! Haaland gets his head to an Alvarez corner but sends his glancing corner narrowly wide of the far post.

90+7 min: Alisson goes down holding his hamstring but will have to see the game out because Liverpool have used all their substitutes.

90+6 min: Phil Foden sends a cross wide to give Liverpool a little breathing space after a sustained period of pressure from the home side.

90+5 min: Bernardo Silva has a thunderous shot from the edge of the Liverpool penalty area blocked by Joel Matip as City search for a late winner.

90+4 min: Haaland gets on the ball down near the corner flag but his attempted cross is blocked and the ball goes out for a throw-in.

90+2 min: A slightly weird game threatens to peter out with the players on the pitch and the fans in the stands all seeming fairly lethargic. There’s another six minutes of added time due to be played, so somebody from either side might be able to conjure up a winner.

90 min: This is one of two banners being flown over the Etihad today. The other was organised by Everton fans criticising the Premier League on the back of their club’s points deduction.

88 min: Akanji goes down holding his head after an airborne tussle and the ref stops play. City’s players complain because a promising attack is stopped and Bernardo Silva’s name goes into the book for dissent.

86 min: Joel Matip is booked for a foul on Doku as the City winger tried to jink his way into the Liverpool penalty area from the left. From the ensuing free-kick, City win themselves a corner. Alisson does well to gather the inswinger and is bundled over the line with the ball in his hands by Akanji. Free-kick for Liverpool.

85 min: Liverpool double-substitution: Endo and Harvey Elliott on for Alexis Mac Allister and Darwin Nunez. Liverpool have used all five available substitutes while City haven’t used any of theirs.

83 min: City win a free-kick in a promising position but Julian Alvarez fires his effort into the defensive wall.

81 min: There’s been a conspicuous lack of urgency from both sides in this second half and City might be forced to pay a heavy price for theirs. Their failure to put Liverpool to the sword has allowed Liverpool back into the game courtesy of Alexander-Arnold’s strike. The Liverpool full-back was teed up by Mo Salah, with no Manchester City defenders anywhere near him.

GOAL! Manchester City 1-1 Liverpool (Alexander-Arnold 80)

It’s all square at the Etihad. Trent Alexander-Arnold sends a low diagonal drive into the bottom corner from just outside the penalty area.

79 min: Liverpool break upfield with Mo Salah feeding the ball out wide to Tsimikas on the inside left. He cuts inside but his cxross is a poor one. Ruben Dias cuts it out with a header.

77 min: Phil Foden gets caught in the face by the trailing arm of Luis Diaz as the two players contest the ball. It’s a free-kick for the home side, just inside their own half. Kyle Walker sends the ball long and Liverpool clear.

75 min: Tracking back in a bid to put a stop to Phil Foden’s gallop, Darwin Nunez gets the first booking of the game for fouling his rival. Free-kick for City, wide on the right. Haaland makes a near post run to get in front of Mac Allister but heads Julian Alvarez’s delivery over the bar.

72 min: Liverpool substitution: Cody Gakpo on for Dominik Szoboszlai.

71 min: Alisson isn’t having one of his better games in a Liverpool shirt and can consider himself a mite fortunate that Dias’s goal was ruled out. Akanji wasn’t exactly clambering all over him and the Liverpool goalkeeper made a total pig’s ear of his effort to deal with the cross.

Manchester City 1-0 Liverpool

It’s as you were. Alisson flapped at an inswinging corner under pressure from Manuel Akanji and Ruben Dias was on hand to tap home at the far post. The goal doesn’t stand as Akanji is adjudged to have fouled Alisson.

GOAL! Manchester City 2-0 Liverpool (Dias 67)

City double their lead from the set-piece but there’s a VAR check for a foul on Alisson. The goal is disallowed.

67 min: Doku is released into space again and gets the better of Joel Matip. His final ball into the penalty area is found wanting again and Liverpool hack clear for a corner.

67 min: A Rodri piledriver from outside the penalty area strikes Ryan Gravenberch on the backside and City’s players appeal en masse for handball and a penalty. They are forced to make do with a corner, from which nothing comes.

63 min: Jeremy Doku gets on the ball again after Nathan Ake intercepts a Ryan Gravenberch pass towards Diaz. He plays the ball wide to Alvarez but fails to make the run to the far post to meet the ensuing cross. Goal kick for Liverpool .

61 min: Ruben Dias comes perilously close to poking a Szoboszlai cross from the right past his own goalkeeper and into the back of the net while trying to prevent the delivery reaching Luis Diaz. He gets away with conceding a corner instead and City clear their lines.

59 min: In the City penalty area, Nathan Ake slides in to take the ball off Darwin Nunez’s toe. The ball goes out off the Liverpool player but his side are incorrectly awarded a corner. Nothing comes of it and a potential controversy is mercifully avoided.

57 min: City attack on the break again as Foden sends Doku on his way from a Liverpool corner. The winger’s first touch is a poor one and a back-pedalling Alexis Mac Allister is on hand to snuff out the danger.

56 min: City get the ball launched into the Liverpool penalty area and a poor headed clearance from Trent Alexander-Arnold sets up a half-chance for Haaland. His shot on the turn from 18 yards sails over the bar.

55 min: Jurgen Klopp rings the changes as Luis Diaz and Ryan Gravenberch come on for Curtis Jones and Diogo Jota.

52 min: In acres of space on the left, Doku receives a crossfield pass from Alvarez and gives Alexis Mac Allister the slip. He checks his run and tees up the Argentinian on the edge of the penalty area. Alvarez shoots high over the bar.

52 min: Liverpool are dominating the early stages of this second half and win themselves a corner. Kostas Tsimikas sends the ball into the penalty area, where Ederson plucks it from the air and tries to send Phil Foden upfield on a counter-attack.

50 min: Mo Salah cuts in from the right towards the byline, getting the better of Nathan Ake. Akanji is quick to get over and give his teammate a dig-out, shepherding the ball out of play as he gets between it and the Egyptian.

49 min: On the touchline, Jurgen Klopp is ranting and raving at his players, urging them forward and instructing them to play with a little more urgency.

48 min: Manuel Akanji is forced to hoof the ball out of play for a throw-in after good work down the right by Trent Alexander-Arnold.

47 min: It’s an extremely low key start to the second half in a ground where the atmosphere seems curiously muted considering City are on top. We can probably put that down to the early kick-off.

46 min: City are looking for their 24th consecutive home win and will equal a record held for well over a century by Sunderland if they take all three points today.

Second half: Manchester City 1-0 Liverpool

46 min: Liverpool get the second half under way and will feel reasonably confident that they can turn things around. There are no changes in personnel on either side.

Erling Haaland: The Norwegian required just 48 games to score his 50th Premier League goal. Andy Cole, next on the list of quickest half-centuries, took 65 games. In mitigation, Cole will no doubt point out that he didn’t take penalties.

Half-time: Manchester City 1-0 Liverpool

Peep! Chris Kavanagh blows his whistle to bring an absorbing half to a close with Manchester City leading courtesy of Erling Haaland’s 50th Premier League goal. A poor kick-out from Alisson gifted possession to City and after excellent work from Nathan Ake, the combined forces of Liverpool’s goalkeeper, Virgil van Dijk and Joel Matip were unable to prevent Erling Haaland scoring his latest landmark goal after just 48 league appearances for his club.

45+1 min: With a low Szoboszlai shot heading wide, Ederson inexplicably tries to “save” the ball and palms it into a danger area just outside his own six-yard box. Kyle Walker scrambles it cleasr before anyone in a red shirt can react. It’s half-time.

43 min: Phil Foden brings a smart save out of Alisson who dives to his left to palm the ball around the upright after the City winger had cut inside from the right and unleashed a low, fizzing drive. It was heading for the bottom corner.

41 min: A rogue pass from Kyle Walker drops at the feet of Alexis Mac Allister. He plays it forward to Szoboszlai, whose shot is blocked. Manchester City advance upfield on the break with Doku on the ball and Haaland and Alvarez either side of him. He plays the ball left to Alvarez, who tries to pick out Haaland at the far post. His cross sails wide and a great opportunity for City to double their lead goes to waste.

39 min: Looking back at the goal, it seems Van Dijk and Matip could have done more to stop Haaland as he ran on to Nathan Ake’s pass. Each seemed to leave him for the other to stop and the City striker made the most of their indecision.

37 min: Doku picks up a wonderful pass upfield from Bernardo Silva and puts Trent Alexander-Arnold on the back foot again. He cuts inside the defender again but is unable to pick out the killer pass.

35 min: Darwin Nunez shoots wide from a very tight angle after good work by Szoboszlai, who had pounced on a loose pass from Manuel Akanji and scurried upfield.

33 min: Doku surrenders posserssion to Trent Alexander-Arnold, who picks out Darwin Nunez with an inch-perfect 30-yard pass upfield. City’s players appeal for handball but referee Simon Hooper doesn’t blow his whistle. Nunez advances upfield and plays the ball wide to Salah when he should have tried a shot himself. Salah runs into traffic and City clear up at the back.

31 min: Bernardo Silva plays the ball up the left flank, picking out Doku. He cuts inside Alexander-Arnold but his cross is blocked and put out for a corner by Joel Matip. Nothing comes of the set-piece.

30 min: For the record, that was Erling Haaland’s 50th Premier League goal. He’s banging them in at a rate of more than one a game.

28 min: Attempting to send his side upfield on the counter-attack, Alisson kicked the ball straight to Nathan Ake. The City defender slipped Haaland in behind with a pass between two defenders and a sublime first touch enabled the big Norwegian to get the ball out from under his feet and fire past Alisson. The goalkeeper got something on the ball but was unable to keep it out of the bottom corner.

GOAL! Manchester City 1-0 Liverpool (Haaland 27)

City lead! Erling Haaland fires City in front, capitalising on another error from Alisson.

Haaland punishes Liverpool and gives City the lead!

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A tree lopper's heart falls in a forest. A working mum contemplates taking photographs of her late husband down from her fridge. A girl writes a last letter to the man she loves most, then sets it on fire. A palliative care nurse helps a dying woman converse with the angel at the end of her bed.
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11,344 ratings1,293 reviews Trent Dalton, Australia's best-loved writer, goes out into the world and asks a simple, direct question: 'Can you please tell me a love story?' A blind man yearns to see the face of his wife of thirty years. A divorced mother has a secret love affair with a travelling priest.
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Love Stories is a great middle finger to the divisive times we live in. Filled with stories from 150 passers by on the street, this book shows that no matter the background, no matter the context, all of us are all filled with love and belief in the world.
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Reviewed by Suzanne Marks Tags: Australian love stories / Brisbane / love stories / Trent Dalton / true stories The bestselling novelist brings together real-life love stories in this collection. How this book came together is as intrinsic to its existence as the 150 love stories it contains.
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bookishnooks Mar 13, 2022 3 min read Book Review: Love Stories, by Trent Dalton Updated: Oct 21, 2022 In the middle of a Brisbane lockdown, Trent Dalton decided to drag a trestle table, chairs and an old typewriter across Southbank so that he could sit outside on the river and collect love stories.
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Endless stories. Human stories. Love stories. Inspired by a personal moment of profound love and generosity, Trent Dalton, bestselling author and one of Australia's finest journalists, spent two months in 2021 speaking to people from all walks of life, asking them one simple and direct question: 'Can you please tell me a love story?' The ...
What's love got to do with it? In Trent Dalton's new book, pretty much
Dalton, Walkley-winning journalist and author of the novels Boy Swallows Universe and All Our Shimmering Skies, set himself a huge task and his book shows that he went about it with honesty and a certain humility, getting strangers to confide, with an obvious willingness to learn and to listen.
Love Stories by Trent Dalton
The idea behind Trent Dalton's latest book, Love Stories, is absolutely gorgeous - it started with a sky-blue 1960s Olivetti typewriter (the much-loved machine of his best mate's mum).Add a portable table, a sign stating 'Sentimental Writer Collecting Love Stories', and a couple of months on a busy street in Brisbane, and the result was a collection of stories about the many facets ...
Love Stories: Uplifting True Stories about Love from the
Overview WINNER, INDIE BOOK AWARDS 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR Trent Dalton, Australia's best-loved writer, goes out into the world and asks a simple, direct question: 'Can you please tell me a love story?' A blind man yearns to see the face of his wife of thirty years. A divorced mother has a secret love affair with a priest.
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Great Value. Enjoy a great reading experience when you buy the Kindle edition of this book. Learn more about Great on Kindle, available in select categories. WINNER, INDIE BOOK AWARDS 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR Trent Dalton, Australia's best-loved writer, goes out into the world and asks a simple, direct question: 'Can you please tell me a love story?'
Love Stories: Uplifting True Stories about Love from the
Great Experience. Great Value. Enjoy a great reading experience when you buy the Kindle edition of this book. Learn more about Great on Kindle, available in select categories. WINNER, INDIE BOOK AWARDS 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR
Book review: Love Stories by Trent Dalton
It's poetic, with little definitions of love throughout. Cynthia Morahan reviews Love Stories by Trent Dalton, published by HarperCollins. Cynthia says: This is a perfect book for people who hate small talk. It's poetic, with little definitions of love throughout.
Love Stories by Trent Dalton
Description Product Details Father's Day Delivery Trent Dalton, Australia's best-loved writer, goes out into the world and asks a simple, direct question: 'Can you please tell me a love story?' A blind man yearns to see the face of his wife of thirty years. A divorced mother has a secret love affair with a priest.
Love Stories Journal by Trent Dalton
Based on Trent Dalton's warm, poignant, funny and moving book about love in all its guises Love Stories Journal features a passionate and inspiring introduction from Trent, along with some gentle and thought-provoking prompts from him to help guide you as the journalist of your own love stories. The love you want to scream about from a mountaintop.
Love Stories by Trent Dalton
A tree lopper's heart falls in a forest. A working mum contemplates taking photographs of her late husband down from her fridge. A girl writes a last letter to the man she loves most, then sets it on fire. A palliative care nurse helps a dying woman converse with the angel at the end of her bed.
Love Stories: Uplifting True Stories about Love from the
After each story, Trent has an epiphany. Each love story is separated by a simple yet striking realization about love. That was my most favourite part of the book. ️ Thank you Trent Dalton for writing such an incredible book. 🙏🏻🥰This will without a doubt be one of my top books of 2023!
Love Stories (Trent Dalton)
'Love Stories' by Trent Dalton focus on the myriad experience of love, all told through stories he gained while sitting on the corner of a Brisbane City stre...
Love Stories by Trent Dalton
Tom Lake By: Ann Patchett How to Know a Person By: David Brooks The Covenant of Water By: Abraham Verghese Publisher's summary Trent Dalton, Australia's best-loved writer, goes out into the world and asks a simple, direct question: Can you please tell me a love story? A blind man yearns to see the face of his wife of 30 years.
Love Stories by Trent Dalton
Endless stories. Human stories. Love stories. Inspired by a personal moment of profound love and generosity, Trent Dalton, bestselling author and one of Australia's finest journalists, spent two months in 2021 speaking to people from all walks of life, asking them one simple and direct question: "Can you please tell me a love story?"
Book Review of Love Stories by Trent Dalton
A book of love stories collected by passers-by by the roadside in Brisbane, where Trent was sitting with a typewriter and a sign reading "The sentimental writer collects love stories". Love stories are everything and more than I hoped for, and they also offer the perfect cure for the tense and tumultuous eighteen months since the start of ...
Love Stories Journal: A gorgeous guided keepsake based on Trent Dalton
Based on Trent Dalton's warm, poignant, funny and moving book about love in all its guises Love Stories Journal features a passionate and inspiring introduction from Trent, along with some gentle and thought-provoking prompts from him to help guide you as the journalist of your own love stories. The love you want to scream about from a mountaintop.
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Love Stories: Uplifting True Stories about... by Dalton, Trent
Love Stories: Uplifting True Stories about Love from the Internationally Bestselling Author of Boy Swallows Universe Hardcover - 27 October 2021 by Trent Dalton (Author) 4.4 1,330 ratings #1 Most Gifted in 21st Century History See all formats and editions Kindle $21.99 Read with our free app Hardcover $26.95 5 New from $23.07 Great on Kindle
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Hardcover $19.00 4 New from $19.00 Paperback $31.89 1 Used from $34.54 10 New from $25.64 Audio CD from $48.55 2 New from $48.55 A blind man yearns to see the face of his wife of 30 years. A divorced mother has a secret love affair with a priest. A geologist discovers a three-minute video recorded by his wife before she died.