He was only a little bit of a chap, and so, when for the first time in his life he came into close contact with the endless current of human things, it was as hard for him to "stay put" as for some wayward little atom of flotsam and jetsam to keep from tossing about in the surging tides of the sea. His mother had left him there in the big toy-shop, with instructions not to move until she came back, while she went off to do some mysterious errand. She thought, no doubt, that with so many be...

A student’s murder in the grounds of Dublin’s famous Trinity College brings out Ireland’s darker secrets.In this first of the ten-book Inspector Matt Minogue series, a brutal murder in the grounds of Trinity College, Dublin sparks a police investigation with unexpected consequences for Sergeant Matt Minogue of the Garda Murder Squad.When the body of student Jarlath Walsh is discovered with his head beaten in, Minogue instinctively knows that this is no random killing. Walsh...

Ireland is reeling from the shocks of the economic crash, but Dublin’s still a small place. Bernadette Cummins is frantic: her only surviving son Gary is missing. Because her husband is a criminal godfather serving a sentence, Bernie can’t trust that the Guards will search for her son.She turns to her childhood friend for help - Sheila Malone, Sergeant Tommy Malone’s Ma. With Bernie Gannon facing cancer, Sheila won’t let her down.In a meet with Bernie’s infamous husband, Ma...

The murder of a tourist a decade ago has left open wounds. When an outsider begins to question the past, it changes everything.The fourth Inspector Minogue mystery opens on a drizzly October in Dublin: Minogue is daydreaming of Greece’s blue skies. His plans for a trip there are suddenly dashed: Hoey, his partner in the Garda Murder Squad, has tried to kill himself. To compound Minogue’s problems, family duty calls. His nephew has been arrested for suspected IRA gun running....

A young woman wants her share of the good life - but at what cost?The fifth Inspector Minogue novel begins on Dublin’s Grand Canal. Long a favoured place for young lovers to take a romantic stroll, the canal banks have become a prime spot for drug deals and prostitution. Waters that harboured elegant swans now wash up syringes and dead bodies.This is where Mary Mullen is found, her body battered and callously left to jam in a canal lock. She wanted ‘the good life,’ but afte...

A screenwriter wants gritty and researches Dublin’s violent criminals. How deep is too deep for his research?Ireland's Hundred Thousand Welcomes continues to draw immigrants to its faltering Celtic Tiger economy. For those hundreds of thousands of Poles - Catholic, hard-working, white and like the Irish, survivors of an overbearing neighbour - Ireland works.But the Tiger devours too. Barely a week in Ireland. 20-year-old Tadeusz Klos lies in a coma on a rainswept Dublin str...

This book is a collection of poetry by Kay Sulimay Brady, who put her first poetic verse to paper in 1940 at the age of nineteen. Kay's writing shares her feelings on many subjects that were close to her heart--nature and the seasons, love, memories, patriotism, family, faith, and even a nod to local sports. Her poetry reflects a wide range of emotion--joy, introspection, inspiration, sadness, gratitude, appreciation, and touches of whimsy. Kay reflected these emotions back to the reader a...

Booming Celtic Tiger ireland is a magnet for the world - and for ruthless crime syndicates.In the seventh in the Minogue series, Dublin is roaring, spinning and racing full throttle to the future. The tiger economy sends seismic shocks through every level of society. The din of construction rings out over the crush of traffic, while crowds spill into streets, alight with the glitter of high-end restaurants and the glare of night clubs.But Dublin's gangland bares its teeth. T...

"If I had to go back in Hollywood history and name two people who were most desperately and passionately in love with each other, I would say Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner were It."—Liz Smith.It began in Hollywood's golden age when Ava was emerging as a movie star. But she fell in (and out of) love too easily. Mickey Rooney married her because he wanted another conquest. Artie Shaw treated her like a dumb brunette, giving her a reading list on their honeymoon. Neither marriage last...

For over twenty years, John Brady McDonald's day job has been working with youth. Over half of that time was spent as a Frontline Youth Outreach Worker on the streets of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. During that time, John would write down his thoughts and feelings on scraps of paper and in little black hardcover notebooks, chronicling the struggles and traumas of the youth he worked with and which he himself had also experienced. Never being quite the right fit for his other poetry books, ...

Electricity Slides is an experimental work, written in the Dadaist "cut-up" style of the 1950s. Begun as a series of live performance art monologues, Electricity Slides alternates between a third-person narrative and a first-person narrative of the nameless protagonist, a troubled and traumatized figure who speaks in a lyrical, poem/prose manner, in possession of a stolen, mind-altering substance through a connection with an equally nameless, equally mysterious woman. The...

As Germany celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany--the former West Germany-- leading scholars take stock in this volume of the political, social, and economic progress Germany made as it built a democratic political system and a powerful economy, survived the Cold War, and dealt with the challenges of reunification.The contributors address issues such as Germany's response to extremists, the development of a professional civil service...