An irreverent, unexpurgated account of Carty's fight against censorship which helped clear the way for the belated emergence of the now thriving Irish film industry. Drawing on a cast of hundreds including John Huston, Andy Warhol, Mary Robinson, Nei

A woman in black with colorful splinters drinks with the cool man. They fly together over stars, under stars, between stars. The life of the Titanic appears in its sinking. A paper boat floats casually in the water, it drifts cautiously towards a featherfoil: Bang! > Ash falls from above. The Eyjafjallajökull is burst irretrievable. // All confessions of the psychosaurus are written in this book in English, Hindi, Spanish, Arabic, French, Russian and German.

Simon Mayo first opened his confessional in 1988 on BBC Radio 1's Breakfast Show. Every day, one shamefaced listener would share their deepest, darkest secret while millions tuned in to find out whether or not Simon would grant his forgiveness. Over twenty years later, Simon presents the daily Drivetime show on BBC Radio 2, and the confessions segment is back. Now those guilty listeners who missed their chance first time round have joined a whole new generation of sinners to beg for clemency from Father Mayo and his flock. From supermarket-wrecking games of 'aisle catch' to kidnapped pensioners and clandestine pet vasectomies, this is a brand-new collection of hilarious letters and emails from Simon's ever-popular show. Join the discussion on Twitter: #drivetimeconfessions

In the 1910s and 1920s, when circus was the most popular form of entertainment in North America, Mabel Stark made her name in a man’s world as the greatest female tiger trainer in history, the centre-ring finale act for the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus. Brazen, courageous, obsessed with tigers and sexually eccentric, Stark survived a dozen severe maulings — and five husbands. Now, at age 80 and about to lose her job, she decides that there is one last thing she needs to do: Mabel Stark wants to confess.

For the waitress it was true love, but for the wealthy man it was just a one-night fling. Skye sneaks into a big wedding of a prominent Spanish family. It’s all because of Lazaro Sanchez… She didn’t know much about the investment superstar when she first met him, only that she was extremely attracted to him. He’d been the first man she’d ever spent a night with…and then she got pregnant. Skye is going to the wedding to tell him the truth, but the media learns of her situation and the wedding is canceled. To calm down the situation, Lazaro asks Skye to marry him!

This book challenges the widespread scholarly and popular belief that the Irish Civil War (1922–1923) was followed by a ‘traumatic silence’. It achieves this by opening an alternative archive of published testimonies which were largely produced in the 1920s and 1930s; testimonies were written by pro- and anti-treaty men and women, in both English and Irish. Nearly all have eluded sustained scholarly attention to date. However, the act of smuggling private, painful experience into the public realm, especially when it challenged official memory making (or even forgetting), demanded the cautious deployment of self-protective narrative strategies. As a result, many testimonies from the Irish Civil War emerge in non-conventional, hybridised and fictionalised forms of life writing. This book re-introduces a number of these testimonies into public debate. It considers contemporary understandings of mental illness and how a number of veterans – both men and women – self-consciously engaged in projects of therapeutic writing as a means to ‘heal’ the ‘spiritual wounds’ of civil war. It also outlines the prevalence of literary representations of revolutionary sexual violence, challenging the assumptions that sexual violence during the Irish revolution was either ‘rare’ or ‘hidden’.

In a small Dutch town, an all male reading club invite Father Antonius to speak at their tenth anniversary celebration. Father Antonius has written an autobiography based on his secret diaries and the life he describes is far from being a life of devotion. While his controversial book upsets the church, it intrigues the reading public. Before agreeing to speak at the Dutch reading club, Antonius sets a task for the men, he asks them to write in private journals before collating their stories into an Anniversary book to be shared with the group.The men struggle to get started, finding the exploration of their inner worlds a challenge. Gradually they give themselves over to the task, revealing long hidden pain, desires, fears and hopes. The final pieces, to be drawn together in the group's Anniversary book, reveal countless secrets, which will change the group forever.'Confessions of a Dutch Reading Club' is a pertinent examination of the male psyche. Each member of the reading group,as carefully constructed by Patricia Van Stratum, reflects issues deeply relevant today, from the lasting influence ofa seminary education, to child abuse within the catholic church, to headline grabbing topics like alcohol abuse.This is a book to entertain and provoke, and one in which we meet memorable, yet familiar, characters.