Mayne published six collections of stories between 1898 and 1925. This book offers a selection of the best stories from these collections, with a particular focus on stories that have an Irish setting and/or Irish characters.
Mayne published six collections of stories between 1898 and 1925. This book offers a selection of the best stories from these collections, with a particular focus on stories that have an Irish setting and/or Irish characters.
The infection is continuing to spread in this uncertain, ever-changing world. This adrenaline-pumping page-turner is set in Australia. An unknown flu-like infection creates an apocalyptic crisis. The ‘Infected’ have developed intellect, becoming strategic in hunting the main character, Jackson. Jackson is marked by them and they want him dead.
A Play Presenting the Origin and Early Development of the Johns HopkinsHospital
How, exactly, did the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions come into existence? Historians may debate the issue but playwrights can imagine it. Here, Alan M. Chesney dares to go where doctors and historians may not. A one-act play, The Flowering of an Idea presents in four scenes 'an imaginary conversation in which an idea is born.' The dramatis ......
Credited with vividly recreating an early chapter in American history with his first novel, A Matter of Honor, William C. Hammond continues the seafaring adventures of the prominent Cutler family of Massachusetts. Set in the years following the American Revolution, this second novel offers an exciting look at the young republic at a time when ......
Forever Island is the story of Charlie Jumper, an old Seminole Indian who clings to the ancient ways and teaches them to his grandson. When their simple swamp existence is threatened by development, Charlie decides to fight back.
Frank Hannaford, a young Australian from a sheltered Catholic background, is searching for a deeper version of himself in 1930s Germany. At the university and in an organisation of young Catholic men he finds friendship and a new confidence in his own resources. A German identity begins to form, surprising and delighting him.
Book 1 in the ‘Lockley’s of Parramatta’ series:- The small town of Parramatta in New South Wales, is a rough place in the early 1830s. Convicts and ruffians galore.
Hannah Lynch (Dublin 1859 – Paris 1904), restless wanderer, cosmopolitan, cultural observer and commentator, was the author of feminist fiction, travel writing and journalism.
