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A farmer ends up in a wheelchair after a car crash that results in his wife's death. His son's relationship to him is complicated by a woman who comes into his life and lives with him for a time. He has conflicted feelings towards her and towards his sister, a nun who works in a hospital in Nebraska. These are exacerbated when he goes to London to work, discovering new sides to himself in the city's freewheeling ambience. This is a novel abou...

An anthology of sayings and epigrams on literature

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John Huston's 'eastern Western' signaled the end of the careers of three major Hollywood figures. It was Marilyn Monroe's last completed film. Clark Gable died a fortnight after shooting ended. Montgomery Clift rumbled on for a few years but without doing much of note. It also signaled the end of Monroe's marriage to Arthur Miller. Miller wrote the screenplay as a 'gift' to his troubled wife but their marriage was already on the rocks by the t...

John Huston's 'eastern Western' signaled the end of the careers of three major Hollywood figures. It was Marilyn Monroe's last completed film. Clark Gable died a fortnight after shooting ended. Montgomery Clift rumbled on for a few years but without doing much of note. It also signaled the end of Monroe's marriage to Arthur Miller. Miller wrote the screenplay as a 'gift' to his troubled wife but their marriage was already on the rocks by the t...

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Aubrey Malone's memoir begins with him entering life as the youngest of nine children born to Hugh Dillon-Malone, a colourful solicitor, in Ballina in 1953. His life is a hubbub with lots of activity both inside and outside his family home of Norfolk. There are also his various 'homes from home' - the Estoria cinema, the soccer grounds of Belleek, the beach at the nearby town of Enniscrone. His family moved to Dublin in 1969 after his father r...

Shane has often been described as the most perfect sagebrush exemplification of Hollywood's Golden Age. A masterpiece of tone and technique, it was George Stevens' atmospheric valentine to an era if not a genre. Alan Ladd gave an emblematic performance in it. Jean Arthur excelled as the woman he falls in love with but cannot have. Van Heflin was pitch perfect as her decent, rough-hewn husband.Jack Palance won an Oscar nomination for playing th...

Shane has often been described as the most perfect sagebrush exemplification of Hollywood's Golden Age. A masterpiece of tone and technique, it was George Stevens' atmospheric valentine to an era if not a genre. Alan Ladd gave an emblematic performance in it. Jean Arthur excelled as the woman he falls in love with but cannot have. Van Heflin was pitch perfect as her decent, rough-hewn husband.Jack Palance won an Oscar nomination for playing th...

This is the final part of Aubrey Malone's Ballina trilogy. It sees him expanding his orbit from his native town to Dublin and foreign countries. What hasn't changed is the yearning for home, conveyed through poetry and prose, fact and fiction, present and past.

We're all losers in life in some way, ' Aubrey Malone contends in this memoir, 'but that's what makes us interesting.' It documents his college years in Ballina, County Mayo, where he suffered under an oppressive regime and eventually found closure on it.The book also features a court action taken by his father after he retired from being a solicitor and his own life as a teacher and subsequently a writer. As a background to these themes, his ...

Spanning no less than five generations, this is the story of a Midleton-born nurse who rises to the top of her profession in the 1960s before marriage to a carpet salesman in Clery's sees her having to leave her job and become a fulltime mother. Tragedy mixes with comedy as tales of marital breakdown and a bullying matron mix with nights on the town and days on ever-changing wards as the health service goes through various transitions and she ...

A novel and balanced assessment of one of the greatest stars of the silver screen.

In this updated edition of Aubrey Malone's ground-breaking study of the unsung heroes and heroines of the Oscar ceremonies, he delves further into the circumstances surrounding many of the films either ignored or undervalued by the Academy from the 1920s up to the embarrassing gaffe of 2017 which saw La La Land wrongly announced as Best Picture instead of Moonlight. In a book which doubles as an unofficial history of Hollywood, he writes about...

Brian Kilcoyne finds it difficult to cope with the death of his mother. His father is an alcoholic and he doesn't get on with his brother. He leaves his farm in Loughrea to go to college in Dublin, splitting up with his childhood sweetheart as he does so. They leave their relationship open with the possibility of continuing it in the future. He travels to Europe and America while trying to decide on his future. Romance and diaspora create conf...

This reference helps readers navigate the perilous odyssey those of an LGBTQ orientation had to face in an age less enlightened than our own, when an attraction to members of the same gender could lead to horrendous abuse.Just as American society has changed dramatically from decade to decade, so has queer cinema. Taking us from a time when LGBTQ characters were often represented as either caricatures or figures of farce, this lively yet autho...

¿ Punctilious to a fault, Sidney Lumet favored intense rehearsal, which enabled him to bring in most of his films under budget and under schedule. An energized director who captured the heart of New York like no other, he created a vast canon of work that stands as a testament to his passionate concern for justice and his great empathy for the hundreds of people with whom he collaborated during a career that spanned more than five decades. Thi...

Aubrey Malone was born in Ballina and lived there until his father, the well-known solicitor Hugh Dillon-Malone, retired in 1969 and the family moved to Dublin. Ballina Stories and Poems is a mixture of fact and fiction in which he reminisces on the people and places he encountered during his formative years.

This is the first book of its kind. Aubrey Malone has gone back to the start of the Oscar ceremonies and discovered that mistakes have been made every year in the choice of what has been deemed "best" in the categories of acting, directing, producing and the subsidiary awards. He has identified all the great stars (Garbo, Montgomery Clift, Peter O'Toole, Barbara Stanwyck, etc.) who never held Oscars in their hands, and also iconic directors li...

Charles Bukowski is one of the most widely read authors in the world in everywhere from prisons to universities to drying-out clinics. Since his death in 1994 there's been a flood of books by and about him, culminating in a 2017 novel that deals with a relationship he might have had with, of all people, Jane Austen. Aubrey Malone joins the threads on all of these in his up-to-the-minute biography. As well as tackling all the well-known aspects...