Fiction

‘England Calling draws an utterly convincing literary map of this restless nation as it winggles in the throes of a profound identity crisis. It works as a social document but also, much more importantly, as a simply terrific story collection- full of humour, tragedy, hope, despair, struggle and triumph- just like the country whose ever-changing moods it sets out to record’Romance,  adventure, murder and intrigue in the latest Chevalier Galeran medieval mystery. France 1145, and Normandy coast is bracing itself against the impending gales of the autumn equinox.

“An epic novel about and fortune in contemporary America…Puzo is a gifted writer…a lusty chronicler of our times whose writing style bulldozes its way through pretense and hypocrisy.”

With his own boat, the motor yacht sea fox, formal naval officer Philip Vivian had hoped to earn a living free from the petty restrictions of everyday life, close to the sea he loved.

Who needs football? A little over 10 years ago the Japanese decided they did. After treating it as an irrelevant sport over 100 years they launched a national project  aimed at enrolling themselves as one of the world’s football powers

How is it that we can recognize photos from our high school yearbook decades later, but cannot remember what we ate for breakfast yesterday? And why are we inclined to buy more cans of soup if the sign says “LIMIT 12 PER CUSTOMER” rather than “LIMIT 4 PER CUSTOMER?” In Kluge, Gary Marcus argues convincingly that our minds are not as elegantly designed as we may believe. The imperfections result from a haphazard evolutionary process that often proceeds by piling new systems on top of old ones—and those systems don’t always work well together. The end product is a “kluge,” a clumsy, cobbled-together contraption. Taking us on a tour of the essential areas of human experience—memory, belief, decision making, language, and happiness—Marcus unveils a fundamentally new way of looking at the evolution of the human mind and simultaneously sheds light on some of the most mysterious aspects of human nature.

Barry Cummins examines the cases of Ireland’s women and children who have vanished in sinister and mysterious circumstances. Missing looks at who may be responsible for these disappearances.

This book outlines, in clear and disturbing detail, the fact that some of Ireland’s most cold and calculating killers have not been caught.

They are some of Ireland’s most famous names, for all the wrong reasons. They are Ireland’s missing women, many of them murdered and their bodies hidden by evil killers who remain at large. They include American woman Annie McCarrick who was murdered in the Dublin-Wicklow mountains; Jo Jo Dullard who was abducted and murdered while hitching a lift in County Kildare; and former model Fiona Pender who was seven months pregnant when she and her unborn child were murdered and hidden at an unknown location in the midlands.

And then there are Ireland’s two long-term missing children. What ever happened to little Mary Boyle, the seven-year old County Donegal girl last seen walking near her grandparents home over a quarter of a century ago? And where is Philip Cairns, who was only thirteen years old when he was abducted from a Dublin roadside while walking to school in 1986?