Originally conceived as a blog to accompany Gallagher's Victorian novels, and freely available to read online, this guide provides a great introduction to the fascinating phenomenon of 19th Century spiritualism. If you can't tell your materializations from your Mumlers, or never realized just how physical ghost-grabbing could get, then this may well be the perfect book for you.

′This text will be of great use to postgraduate researchers in education, social work and nursing, and any practitioner involved in carrying out research with children and young people′ - CPD Update′[T]here is a sense of newness and innovation about the book, whereby the reader is treated to insight into the life and work of collaborators who wrote each case study....[T]he book is highly accessible for students at graduate and undergraduate level, for example BA (Hons) Early Childh...

Sara The Devil is a new thriller/horror from new author Michael J Gallagher. Sara Price is killing men, treating them the way she had been treated since the abuse received from her Uncle. She meets Gary but the old issues are there bubbling away in her head.Contains sexual content, language, and violence. This book is recommended for ages 17 and up.

THE ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES IS NOT WHAT WE THOUGHT BUT WILL BE REVEALED IN THIS EPISODIC QUEST FULL OF CLIFFHANGERS, ANCIENT MYTHOLOGY, GENETIC ENGINEERING AND ADVENTURE.Human life on a future earth is threatened with genetically engineered extinction and myths buried for millennia may yet prove to be humanity's only hope…Ancient Secrets. Cyborgs acting like Gods…mankind's last stand far in the future.Universe-wide, genetic farming weakens humanity and millions of oth...

Octavius Guy and the Case of the Quibbling Cleric. London, 1853. The well-heeled residents of Highbury have a problem: the Reverend Allaston Burr, the rector who's been foisted upon their congregation by an ancient yet legally-binding right known as an advowson. When a final appeal to Queen Victoria—as the head of the Church of England—fails to remove him from his post, they turn to Gooseberry for help.Join fifteen-year-old Octavius and his ragtag bunch of friends as they investigat...

Rory is born in poverty on a Caribbean island. To give him a chance at a good life, his parents send him to an aunt and uncle in Brooklyn. Rory's dream is to return and rescue his parents from the "hellish island". For sixteen years his dream drives him to excel in everything he does. He returns to the island, but he's too late. Heartbroken, Rory researches Irish history and discovers 50,000 Irish, including his ancestors, were sold into slavery in the seventeenth century and now only 400 ...

THE DEVIL'S WORK is an intriguing suspense/thriller that parallels current day events. It flirts with the thin line between fiction and reality, the real and the surreal, and makes you wonder about the agendas of banks, governments, and social media companies. The world is experiencing geological disasters, pandemics, drought, famine, and the rise of a powerful extremist group. As economies collapse, world leaders implement a single currency and rationing system to distribute the necessiti...

In Faith Maps a theologian of great flair and originality ‘translates’ the voices of several leading thinkers into a series of reflections on faith and contemporary life and culture. The result is both a delightful introduction to theology and religion for students and general readers and a thought-provoking improvisation on familiar themes that will delight specialists.Gallagher devotes a separate chapter to each of ten writers who have explored the credibility of religious faith,...

Drawing on examples from literature, film and, popular culture, the author explores fresh ways to bring Christianity into the secular world.

This book is the second in the series Sources for the Study of Irish Politics, which is produced by the Political Studies Association of Ireland (PSAI). The aim of the PSAI is to promote the professional study of politics in and of Ireland, and the aim of the series is to make more widely available material that is at present difficult to obtain.Building on its predecessor Irish Elections 1922-44: Results and Analysis (1993), this volume assembles the full results...

Tokyo, 1912. The closed world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders - rich provincial families, a new and powerful elite.Kiyoaki has been raised among the elegant Ayakura family – members of the waning aristocracy – but he is not one of them. Coming of age, he is caught up in the tensions between old and new, and his feelings for the exquisite, spirited Satoko. His devoted friend Honda watches from the sidelines. It is only wh...

"I'm not going to let you go. It took longer than I'd bargained to get you unconscious. I'm planning to keep you here for a couple of years or so."When Isabel Eriksson wakes up she’s not sure where she is. She’s got a needle in her arm. Next to the bed a man is sitting and staring at her. He tells her that he intends to keep her locked up.Isabel realises that the only way for her to get out alive is to somehow make him release her and so a psychological game begins....