My Cue to Fight is the first book of its kind to provide an in-depth examination of how the greatest playwright in the English language employed not only psychological brutality but also physical violence...
On the occasion of her mother’s birthday, the Irish writer Maeve Brennan wrote a letter to William Maxwell describing the emotional landscape provided by her mother. She wrote: ‘She gave me an “asylum...
Wired Our Own Way: An Anthology of Autistic Irish Voices is the first collection of personal essays written by Autistic Irish adults. One in twenty seven Irish school children are now diagnosed as autistic,...
William Harrison Ainsworth was a best-selling 19th-century historical novelist whose tales of highwaymen captivated readers before a moral scandal damaged his reputation.William Harrison Ainsworth (1805...
Collected here, from a period of nearly five decades, are thirty-six of Norman Lewis’s best articles. In each, his writing crackles with poker-faced wit and stylistic brilliance. As a witness to his...
Dame Agatha Christie reigns supreme as the ‘Queen of Crime.’ Numerous books have been written about the legendary crime writer, focusing on nearly every aspect of her craft. But until now no one...
It was 1916 when Agatha Christie, née Miller, wrote her first whodunnit. She had been married for two years and had worked for three years in a hospital in Torquay, first as a nurse and then as a dispenser...
An examination of Thomas Hardy's poems reflecting on his tumultuous marriage to Emma Gifford.In many of his poems, the great Dorset poet and novelist Thomas Hardy referred to a certain romantic courtship,...
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