Nuala Anne Mc Grail & her adoring husband Dermot Coyne are at it again in Father Greeleys supremely popular Irish mystery series. At an international music festival in Milan Nuala in her guise as an international singing star meets Seamus Costelloe & his family. Nuala quickly sees with her second sight (Nuala is fey after all) that Mr. Costelloe a sinister Chicago tough guy is doomed. She takes it upon herself to do something to save him which gets her in a whole peck of trouble. Meanwhile Dermot is trying to solve the hundred-year-old mystery of who started the Haymaker Riot which tore Chicago apart. The talented Father Greeley with his enormous storytelling skill his knowledge of Chicago & his mastery of the mystery form combines two separate tales in two different areas to give the reader one tantalizing experience. ...

Irelands rich culinary heritage is brought to life in this new edition of Darinas bestselling Irish Traditional Cooking". With 300 traditional dishes including 100 new recipes this is the most comprehensive & entertaining tome on the subject. Each recipe is complemented by tips tales historical insights & common Irish customs many of which have been passed down from one generation to the next. Darinas fascination with Irelands culinary heritage is illustrated with chapters on Broths & Soups Fish Game Vegetables & Cakes & Biscuits. She uses the finest of Irelands natural produce to give us recipes such as Sea Spinach Soup Potted Ballycotton Shrimps with Melba Toast & Rhubarb Fool." ...

Can we not build up a national tradition a national literature which shall be none the less Irish in spirit from being English in language? W. B. Yeats This anthology traces the history of modern Irish literature from the revolutionary era of the late eighteenth century to the early years of political independence. From Charlotte Brooke & Edmund Burke to Elizabeth Bowen & Louis Mac Neice the anthology shows how in forging a tradition of their own Irish writers have continually challenged & renewed the ways in which Ireland is imagined & defined. The anthology

Includes:: a wide-ranging & generous selection of fiction poetry & drama. Three plays by W. B. Yeats Augusta Gregory & J. M. Synge are printed in their entirety along with the opening episode of James Joyces Ulysses. The volume also

Includes:: letters speeches songs memoirs essays & travel writings many of which are difficult to obtain elsewhere. Stephen Regans anthology vividly & valiantly presents a nation & a national literature coming into being. Paul Muldoon ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more.



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In late eighteenth-century Britain a handful of men brought about the greatest transformation in human history. Inventors industrialists & entrepreneurs ushered in the age of powered machinery & the factory & thereby changed the whole of human society bringing into being new methods of social & economic organisation new social classes & new political forces. The Industrial Revolution also dramatically altered humanity's relation to the natural world & embedded the belief that change not stasis is the necessary backdrop for human existence. Iron Steam & Money" tells the thrilling story of those few decades the moments of inspiration the rivalries skulduggery & death threats & the tireless perseverance of the visionaries who made it all happen. Richard Arkwright James Watt Richard Trevithick & Josiah Wedgwood are among the giants whose achievements & tragedies fill these pages. In this authoritative study Roger Osborne also shows how & why the revolution happened revealing pre-industrial Britain as a surprisingly affluent society with wealth spread widely through the population & with craft industries in every town village & front parlour. The combination of disposable income widespread demand for industrial goods & a generation of time-served artisans created the unique conditions that propelled humanity into the modern world. The industrial revolution was arguably the most important episode in modern human history; " Iron Steam & Money" reminds us of its central role while showing the extraordinary excitement of those tumultuous decades." ...

This is a story of triumph disaster & eventual survival ' against all odds. Herbert Werner was one of the few U-boat commanders whose skill daring & incredible luck saw him safely through to the end of the war. His is an epic & chilling description of the fearful havoc wrought by one small U-boat on the Atlantic convoys. But easy success ebbed away in the face of ever-improving Allied detection & attack techniques. The hunters became the prey to suffer appalling losses. Of 842 U-boats launched 779 were sunk 'iron-coffins' to 28 000 men. Herbert Werner's graphic account of war waged from beneath the sea of horror & cold cruel death is dedicated to the seamen of all nations who died in the Battle of the Atlantic. ...

It is a time of revolts & revolutions conflict & intrigue. New Crobuzon is being ripped apart from without & within. War with the shadowy city-state of Tesh & rioting on the streets at home are pushing the teeming metropolis to the brink. In the midst of this turmoil a mysterious masked figure spurs strange rebellion while treachery & violence incubate in unexpected places. In desperation a small group of renegades escapes from the city & crosses strange & alien continents in the search for a lost hope an undying legend. In the blood & violence of New Crobuzons most dangerous hour there are whispers. It is the time of the Iron Council. ...

From Anne Applebaum the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag" comes a major new work of historical & moral reckoning: the story of life behind the " Iron Curtain". Once the Nazis were defeated in 1945 the people of Central & Eastern Europe expected to recover the lives they had led before 1939. Instead they found themselves subjected to a tyranny that was in many ways as inhuman as the one which they had just escaped. This book explains how Communism was imposed on these previously free societies in the decade after the end of the Second World War. Applebaum describes in calm but devastating detail how political parties the church the media young peoples organisations
- the institutions of civil society on every level
- were all quickly eviscerated. Ranging widely across new archival material & many sources unknown in English she follows the communists tactics as they bullied threatened & murdered their way to power. She also chronicles individual lives to show the rapid choices people had to make
- to fight to flee or to collaborate. Within a remarkably short period after the end of the war Eastern Europe had been ruthlessly Stalinised. " Iron Curtain" is a brilliant history of a brutal period in European history but also a reminder of how fragile free societies are & how vulnerable they can be to the predations of determined & unscrupulous enemies."


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This is chosen 16 times as a ' Book of the Year'
- the top non-fiction pick of 2012. The best work of modern history I have ever
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Half Summer faery princess half human Meghan has never fitted in anywhere. Deserted by the Winter prince she thought loved her she is prisoner to the Winter faery queen. As war looms between Summer & Winter Meghan knows that the real danger comes from the Iron fey
- ironbound faeries that only she & her absent prince have seen. But no one believes her. Worse Meghan's own fey powers have been cut off. She's stuck in Faery with only her wits for help. Trusting anyone would be foolish. Trusting the prince who betrayed her deadly. But even as she grows a backbone of iron Meghan can't help but hear the whispers of longing in her all-too-human heart.
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