Maverick House: 47 books
The Torso in the Canal
The inside story on Ireland's most grotesque murder
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2007
John Mooney’s controversial new book explores the horrific killing and dismemberment of Kenyan immigrant Farah Swaleh Noor by Dublin sisters Linda and Charlotte Mulhall, dubbed the ‘Scissor Sisters’ by the media.Noor's dismembered body was cut into pieces before being dumped in the Royal Canal...
The Boy With A bamboo Heart
The story of a street orphan who built a children’s charity
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
The Boy With A Bamboo Heart is the inspiring story of Dr Amporn Wathanavongs. Orphaned at 6 years of age in a remote village in rural Thailand, Lek was thrust into a life-long struggle to find his place in the world. Alone and impoverished, he survived by begging for food in the markets of Surin until...
Gangster
The biography of the international drugs trafficker John Gilligan
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2008
Gangster is the critically acclaimed biography of John Gilligan, the biggest drugs trafficker to emerge from the Irish underworld. The book is an extraordinarily account of how a young Dubliner became a multi-millionaire criminal. It uses first-hand interviews with Gilligan, his thugs, friends, family,...
The Last Executioner
Memoirs of Thailand's last prison executioner
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2006
Chavoret Jaruboon was personally responsible for executing 55 prison inmates in Thailand’s infamous prisons. As a boy, he wanted to be a teacher like his father, but his life changed when he chose one of the hardest jobs in the world. Honest and often disturbing – but told with surprising humour...
Rough Justice
Memoirs of a Gangster
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Completed hours before Maurice Ward’s shocking murder, this remarkable book is the first autobiography of an Irish criminal. Recording his incarceration in Upton Industrial School, Ward recalls how the violence he suffered at the hands of the religious altered his personality and turned him to crime.
Refreshingly...
Secret Genocide
Voices of the Karen of Burma
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011
It is almost 60 years since the Karen took up arms against the Burmese dictatorship to fight for an independent homeland, but theirs is a nationalist struggle that shows no sign of exhaustion.
Secret Genocide is a scholarly book on the plight of the Karen of Burma. Author Daniel Pedersen...
No Man’s Land
The story of a man who became a woman
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2007
No Man's Land is the authentic story of one woman's struggle towards discovery; to find both herself and true acceptance; the story of two lives intimately entwined; a gender odyssey. Born a male in post war Germany, Paula spent her formative years in Ireland, constantly on a voyage of self-discovery,...
Paranormal Ireland
An investigation into the other side of Irish life
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2002
Reports on sightings of UFOs over County Roscommon in 1997 set in train a passionate interest in the paranormal and inspired Dara deFaoite to write this probing and scholarly book. Paranormal Ireland goes beyond recounting stories of ghosts, haunting, strange creatures in woods and poltergeists to...
The Miracle of Fatima Mansions
An Escape from Drug Addiction
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2007
The Miracle of Fatima Mansions traces a young man’s terrifying descent into a life of drug addiction, crime and prostitution, against the backdrop of the cultural and sexual revolution of the 60s and 70s. Drawn by the bright lights and emerging drug-scene of ‘Swinging London’, Shay Byrne left...
A Company Action
The Battle of the Tunnel
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
December 16, 1961. A Company of the 36th Battalion of the Irish Defence Forces move to retake a strategic supply route into the town of Elizabethville in Congo. The battle of the tunnel followed with fierce fighting between A Company and a coalition of soldiers for hire and Katangese Gendarmerie....
by Susan Aldous
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
Susan Aldous had been on a path to self-destruction when she decided to give her life to others instead of wasting it away in Melbourne's dark underbelly. Working as a Playboy bunny girl, an admirer sponsored her to travel abroad for charity.
She left a world of drugs and petty crime behind...
Peace Enforcers
The EU military intervention in Chad
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
In March 2008, a UN-mandated European military peacekeeping mission, EUFOR Chad/CAR, arrived deep into war-torn and impoverished Chad, the dead heart of Africa. Chad was caught up in the bitter and bloody conflicts raging across its border in the Darfur region of Sudan, and every day traumatised refugees...
With Bare Hands
The story of the human spider
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2008
Overcoming vertigo — and countless injuries which left him officially 60% disabled — the 'Real Spiderman' has scaled over 70 skyscrapers worldwide: from the Petronas Towers in Malaysia to Taipei 101, from Chicago's Sears Tower to Canary Wharf in London. Reward and punishment have been received...
In Fear of Her Life
The True Story of a Violent Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2006
Frances Smith is a pseudonym for a woman who lived in fear of her life for 22 years. Married at 16 to a Dublin criminal, she endured years of relentless mental and physical torture until she found the strength to fight back. This is her courageous story told with brutal honesty and at times humour. It chronicles her descent to the brink of suicide and consequent rebuilding of her life.