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In the same spirit as his novels, O'Brien's plays are speculative, inventive, wickedly funny, and a delightful addition to his collected works—now available at last: this volume collects Flann O'Brien's dramatic work into a single volume, including Thirst, Faustus Kelly, and The Insect Play: A Rhapsody...

In southern graveyards through the first decades of the twentieth century, the Confederate South was commemorated by tombstones and memorials, in Confederate flags, and in Memorial Day speeches and burial rituals. Cemeteries spoke the language of southern memory, and identity was displayed in ritualistic...

The bombing of the twin towers in New York, the Pentagon in Washington and the heroism of those aboard United Airlines Flight 93 was only the beginning of the war on Terror. The search for the mastermind spanned the globe and took over 10 years. On June 02, 2011 the hunt was finally over. This is...

'Fascinating... a delight not to be missed. It's a rare treat indeed to find such an honest, penetrating, wise and thoughtful autobiobiography.' - Eilís Dillon, The Irish Times 'A beautifully-written book.' - Benedict Kiely, Sunday Independent 'Wonderfully lyrical... and extremely well written. It...

En esta obra fundamental para el desarrollo de la corriente modernista en el ámbito de las letras hispanas, Rubén Darío (1867-1916) aportó una nueva sensibilidad y una diferente concepción del arte, al tiempo que demostraba una extraordinaria capacidad para apropiarse y transformar en sustancia...

'I thought that no man liveth and dieth to himself, so I put behind what I thought and what I did the panorama of the world I lived in - the things that made me.'Sean O'Casey, 1948 Sean O'Casey's six-part Autobiographies, originally published between 1939 and 1955, is an eloquently comprehensive...

Check out Tawni O’Dell’s upcoming thriller, Angels Burning, available January 2016 from Gallery Books. “A fearless exploration of the line between mental illness and true evil, a place many thriller writers visit but without the kind of fearless insights [Tawni] O’Dell reveals in this...

In a blistering novel of raw emotion and desire, a tormented woman teaches an alpha male that money can’t fix everything . . . but love can. Tiffany: After fighting for a new life, I don’t want to play the victim anymore. However, with three kids to raise, I’m getting desperate enough...

Here is an utterly new departure in biography of the Old West. Writing in the hangered, hard-boiled style made famous by Hemingway and O’Hara, James B. O’Neil has succeeded in transferring the color and idiom of the wild and roaring days of the West to the printed page. They Die But Once is authentic...

“Sick City is fun, twisted and brutal….O’Neill could be our generation’s Jim Thompson.” — James Frey, author of Bright Shiny Morning   “Tony O’Neill works his L.A. people the way Dutch Leonard had his hand down the pants of every degenerate in his great Detroit novels.” — Barry...

Remember trying to learn a language at school? Remember trying to get your head around conjugating verbs? Past tense, present tense, present participle, imperfect subjunctive? Yes, that’s right, it was all mind numbing. Language is not about perfect grammar. Language is about communication. Why...

S’afficher en robe du soir et talons vertigineux au bras d’un acteur à la mode, dans les soirées les plus chics et branchées où le champagne coule à flots ? Jackie sait que toutes les filles de la terre se damneraient pour prendre sa place. Sauf que, en réalité, elle n’est pas vraiment...

Julia O'Faolain is one of the most important Irish writers of the past half-century. Under the Rose is a selection of short stories taken from her many celebrated collections.These are stories about families and relationships, religion and politics, new life and mortality, and their settings...

'Crucial Reading' - Cosmopolitan UK “A tale of celebrity, catastrophe & ‘The Rules’ – Manhatten Style.”- Publishing News UK “Evelyn delivers some superbly sassy one-liners in this hilarious romp. Definitely a book for the modern girl.” CHAT Based on the author’s...