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First published in 2006, Barney and Molly: A True Dublin Love Story has now been updated to include additional information on the Duffy and Dowdall families dating back to the times of the Great Famine. The definitive edition of this captivating memoir presents the story of Barney and Molly Duffy, who married in 1926 and raised fifteen children in Dublin amidst tremendous political and social upheaval.Their family journey spans generations, fr...

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Everything about everything is about to change for teenage Mark Moorley. And the entire world. He doesn't know it yet. Nor does the world. Until he goes to university...Mark's plans for the future could not have been further from what would become his reality. Orphaned and bullied as a child, he is alone in his university room when he finds a peculiar message inside a pair of familiar looking gloves. Battling emotions and challenged by the mys...

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December 1938. Moscow. Josef Stalin has lost some gold. He is not a happy man. He asks his henchman Beria to track it down. September 1940 London. Above the city the Battle of Britain rages and the bombs rain down. On the streets below, DCI Frank Merlin and his officers investigate the sudden disappearance of Polish RAF pilot Ziggy Kilinski while also battling an epidemic of looting unleashed by the chaos and destruction of the Blitz.Kilinski'...

Commons People takes a look at the day-to-day lives of our MPs, examining what motivates them, who inspires them, what they do to relax, what keeps them awake at night, and their hopes and aspirations for the future. It allows the reader to get into the minds of our elected representatives, reveals what's in their hearts and explores their concerns. The book shows us the personal side of the people whose decisions affect virtually every aspect...

It all started with a promise to a girl he hardly knew... Love, Freedom or Death is a love story set against the resistance struggle in Crete during World War 2. Inspired by true events, it follows impetuous young Dudley Watkins, a New Zealand Sergeant, as he journeys from the disillusionment of defeat in the battle of Crete to the willingness to risk all for the island he has come to love. Love, Freedom or Death tells of a man who kept his pr...

Set on Watling Street, in a fictional area of limestone hills, Mrs McKeiver's Secrets is a microcosm of England in the late 18th century - where all the problems facing rural villages are considered. This includes the horror of landlessness, the price of food and the threat of starvation as a once settled rural community is rocked to its core by the effects of the Hills' Enclosure Act 1795. Mrs McKeiver has lived in the Hills for twenty years....

Have you ever bared your soul? Have you ever tried to be so honest it hurts? Then Outside Looking In will strike a chord. As the reader on the outside, looking in, you are taken on a very personal and painful journey through the eyes of the author, Aud Clark, as a seven-year-old child helpless at the hands of a tyrannical father, is systematically abused. "They say when you experience a traumatic experience your mind blocks it out for your pro...

Seen through the thick end of a schnapps bottle, the idea of driving to a music festival near Timbuktu was idiot-proof.¿Then dawn arrived with a clunk, ¿West Africa?¿No matter where I turned, the reading was equally grim...¿Daniel Houghton:¿murdered as he begged water from a well near Simbing. Mungo Park:¿overcome by paranoia and slaughtered at Bussa Rapids.¿Gordon¿Laing: strangled and beheaded outside Timbuktu.¿Hugh Clapperton:¿crippled with ...

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Nicholas Sumner is a photographer whose work has been published in twenty nine travel guide books. This, his first travel narrative, recounts the story of a seven-year journey across Asia in pursuit of beautiful pictures. "Before I left home, I thought that I knew something about photography, but I found that what knowledge I had was more hindrance than help and I had to admit, that really, I didn't know anything at all. This was humbling, and...