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Charlie Gibbs’ new job comes with these perks: mountain scenery, sunshine, and sex with an older woman. And murder. In the year 2050, twenty-something IT worker, Charlie Gibbs, has a problem – several problems, in fact. His boss has just been killed in mysterious circumstances. Replacement boss, fifty-year-old Dutch cougar, Ilse Teuling, is writing a sex manual and wants Charlie to help with “the practical work”. Populists have declared a coup; people are seeing visions; the clock is counting down to environmental disaster, and a murderer is on the loose, providing Charlie with the biggest problem of the lot – he’s the intended next victim and he doesn’t know why. Can Charlie s...
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Irish detective Mike Mulcahy returns in this “deeply satisfying” (Kirkus Reviews) follow-up to the highly acclaimed international bestseller The Priest—and now he’s hot on the trail of an international drugs gang. Irish detective Mike Mulcahy returns in this suspenseful follow-up to the highly acclaimed international bestseller The Priest—and now he’s hot on the trail of an international drugs gang DI Mike Mulcahy is exactly where he wants to be, coordinating international intelligence for Ireland’s National Drugs Unit. But with the economy in meltdown and his department facing tough cutbacks, his dream job is in jeopardy. Then Mulcahy spots a possible link between the murder o...
In bringing together these scattered witnesses to the sustained brilliance of Anglo-Saxon artistic achievement across several centuries, ?amonn ? Carrag?in has produced a study of great significance to Anglo-Saxon history.
In 1956, a group of 548 refugees escaping the violence of the Hungarian Revolution arrived on the shores of Ireland. With its own history shaped by waves of emigration to escape war, famine, and religious persecution, Ireland responded by creating its first international refugee settlement. Suitable Strangers reveals the firsthand experiences of the men, women, and children who lived in the Knockalisheen refugee camp near Limerick. For the majority of those living in the camp, Ireland was meant to be a temporary waystation on their ultimate journeys, primarily to Canada, the United States, and Australia. But after almost six months of uncertainty and feeling neglected by the Irish government...
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Forged by Twilight Paranormal Romance Love Awakens Their Royal Soul For weeks, Blane Pazu, aka the immortal demon king Pazuzu, experienced the increasing pull of his lifemate— he’d felt her for years but suddenly it threatened to tear his insides apart. The timing couldn't have been worse; he needed to first find his lost amulet to break Lucifer’s curse on his kind and thereby save humanity… so he chose to ignore it. “This amulet chose you to form a mate-bond with the demon it belongs to. If you fail to find him, humanity will die.” Zara Santiago came to Sin City five years ago to hide from her past. She should’ve known better than to allow the supposed witch, Madame Hilda, to ...
Sara Ridings' career as a counsellor and therapist takes a turn for the surreal when the dead family members of her clients start appearing for counselling too. One of those clients is Jamie Robinson a murder victim who needs help finding his killer so he and his family can move on. Matters only get worse when Orla Murphy, an elemental police officer, turns up for supper offering help and protection from the supernatural underworld, help that Sara was unaware she needed. Lorcan Deveraux is one of those supernaturals, a sexy vampire who initially wants to work through his personal issues, but through his business is linked to a number of the murder victims. Just to complicate life even further Sara finds herself developing an attraction to the enigmatic and suspicious Lorcan. Throw in a psychotic demon, a werewolf and an exclusive human hunting club of vampires and Sara is forced to act as a detective to solve a series of crimes before she becomes a victim too.
Edna O'Brien and the Art of Fiction provides an urgent retrospective consideration of one of the English-speaking world's best-selling and most prolific contemporary authors. This study considers the pioneering ways O'Brien represents women's experience, family relationships, the natural world, sex, creativity, and death, and her work's long anticipation of movements such as #metoo.
Everyday streets are both the most used and most undervalued of cities’ public spaces. They are places of social aggregation, bringing together those belonging to different classes, genders, ages, ethnicities and nationalities. They comprise not just the familiar outdoor spaces that we use to move and interact but also urban blocks, interiors, depths and hinterlands, which are integral to their nature and contribute to their vitality. Everyday streets are physically and socially shaped by the lives of the people and things that inhabit them through a reciprocal dance with multiple overlapping temporalities. The primary focus of this book is an inclusive approach to understanding and design...