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Butte, Montana, October 1891, and a hard winter approaches across the Rocky Mountains. The city is rich on copper mines and rampant with vice and debauchery among a hard-living crowd of immigrant Irish workers. Here we find Tom Rourke, a young poet and balladmaker of the town, but also a doper, a drinker, and a fearsome degenerate. Just as he feels his life is heading nowhere fast, Polly Gillespie arrives in town as the new bride of the extrem...

When Kevin Barry turned sixty, his internal alarm clock went off. It was time. Thirty-plus years after his previous cross-country road trips, after the demands of raising a family and a long legal career had worn low the tread on his psychological tires, he could no longer ignore the itch. So he took an extended leave from work, upgraded his camping gear, and hit the open road. For the next sixty-seven days, he and his beloved Subaru (a.k.a. S...

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The Paradox Register' tells the story of 'You' the keeper of the Paradox Register. The Paradox Register is a document which lists names, dates and events which, if changed, will adversely affect the future of mankind in the years and centuries to come. The Paradox Register is a handwritten ledger which is updated regularly by travellers from the future. It is passed on through the generations until it reaches a point in time when time travel i...

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Barry, KevinKevin Barry, geboren 1969 in Limerick, ist der Autor dreier Romane, "Die dunkle Stadt Bohane", "Nachtfähre nach Tanger" und "Beatlebone" sowie von zwei Bänden mit Kurzgeschichten. Für sein Werk wurde er u.a. mit dem IMPAC-Preis, dem Europäischen Literaturpreis und dem Rooney Prize ausgezeichnet sowie zweimal auf die Shortlist des Irish Book Award gewählt.Überhoff, ThomasThomas Überhoff, geboren 1954, arbeitet als Lektor und Überset...

Es ist später Abend im Hafen von Algeciras. Im dunklen Warteraum des Fährterminals sitzen zwei alternde Iren, langjährige Partner im lukrativen, aber gefährlichen Geschäft des Drogenschmuggels, und erwarten Dilly, die verschollene Tochter des einen. Sie haben gehört, dass sie in dieser Oktobernacht entweder auf einem Boot aus Tanger ankommt oder auf einem Boot in Richtung Tanger abfährt. Diese Nachtwache ist der Auftakt zu einer außergewöhnlic...

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Seventeen Galaxy class Battle Cruisers suddenly appear in the sky above the planet Tran. The massive ships contain seventeen thousand and sixty two souls, refugees from a distant, now uninhabitable planet. They are the last remaining people from a once vibrant society and unless they can find a new home their extinction is inevitable.The people of Tran are a peace loving and welcoming race, but the aliens seeking refuge are considered by many ...

John Randal Ex Australian Army chopper pilotreceives an offer of a job on Oreck Island, a tropicalparadise off the coast of far north Australia.Just days after his arrival, dozens of people arestruck down with a mysterious and deadly virus.The entire island is placed under quarantine.Now John, with the help of two German Doctors sentto the island by an organisation known as the PhoenixFoundation, must race against time to find a cure forthe de...

John Livingstone stood and slowly made his way to the kitchen. Detective Gary 'Schoolbags' Samson followed close behind. He grabbed the jug off the bench top, filled it with water and turned it on. "W-We were at a friends place, Maggie, playing cards. Her new boyfriend, Peter somebody. He was a real prick. So full of himself, Helen, that's my wife, couldn't stand him. Maggie's a bit desperate, but we both thought he was so awful we came home e...

Sally Croft and her unborn son are brutally murdered. The cops have arrested someone, but Sally's husband Daniel is convinced they've got the wrong person.He tracks the man he thinks is responsible to Far North Queensland, Australia and sets about collecting evidence. But is Daniel seeking justice or just revenge, and what is the secret behind the painting "Miesbach Castle"? a secret so powerful it will cause a seemingly harmless man to commit...

Jake Cameron's life has been cut short. Just a few years ago he had everything. A good, well paid job, a beautiful girlfriend, and excellent prospects for the future. Now he's dead. Pity really. All he had to do was give up the booze, get back on the straight and narrow, and win the heart of his one true love. Oh and stop every major crime syndicate in the world from assassinating him.

ALL PROCEEDS FROM THE SALE OF THIS BOOK GO TO CHARITYIn the tiny outback town of Colombo Creek, Reverend Charles Albertson makes a gruesome discovery. One of his parishioners, a quiet, reclusive man is found mutilated and murdered.Detective Inspector Roger Dark is dispatched from the city to investigate.As DI Dark's investigation into the vicious murder of Eduardo Ceasere proceeds, he learns that there is more to the murder than a simple crime...

With three novels and two short story collections published, Kevin Barry has steadily established his stature as one of the finest writers not just in Ireland but in the English language. All of his prodigious gifts of language, character, and setting in these eleven exquisite stories transport the reader to an Ireland both timeless and recognizably modern. Shot through with dark humor and the uncanny power of the primal and unchanging Irish l...

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Irina Lothario, the beautiful, Russian born, wife of Australian mining magnate Oscar Lothario, is kidnapped, then brutally and senselessly murdered. Detective Inspector Andrew Daniels is charged with finding her killer.Barely coping with the tragic death of his own wife and trying desperately to raise his seven year old son without her, D.I. Daniels, together with his sexually diverse partner, D.C. Jayne Usher, attempt to chase down the four m...

This is book two in the Flying Tiger series. Please read book one, 'Charlotte and the Morthe' first. In an attempt to get more kids reading all my children's books are free as e-books and always will be. In the kingdom of Faladia, the volcano Mount Pustular is beginning to erupt. Ash and lava is spewing from the crater and is starting to engulf the tiny Sundria monastery situated at its base. In the grounds of the abbey is a magical fountain ...