"A soaring account of the first flight across the Atlantic . . . Lindbergh's flight still astonishes . . . Suspenseful." — The Cleveland Plain DealerFor five weeks—from April 14 to May 21, 1927—the world held its breath while fourteen aviators took to the air to capture the $25,000 prize that Raymond Orteig offered to the first man to cross the Atlantic Ocean without stopping.Joe Jackson's Atlantic Fever is about this race...

This is the Story of the original Riverdance- the six-minute version and Riverdance the Show - as you probably never heard it before and probably will never read elsewhere. Simply because back in 1996 and 1997, long before confidentiality clauses were written into the contracts of those who are employed by the Riverdance production company, it's two lead dancers told the stories in an often angry and unvarnished fashion to Joe Jackson who was the music critic for the Irish Times and a cont...

Humanity has been brought to the brink of extinction. Each night, the world is overrun by demons—bloodthirsty creatures of nightmare that have been hunting the surface for over 300 years. A scant few hamlets and half-starved city-states are all that remain of a once proud civilization, and it is only by hiding behind wards, ancient symbols with the power to repel the demons, that they survive. A handful of Messengers brave the night to keep the lines of communication open between the incre...

In 1988 The Irish Times claimed that an Irish rock magazine was "noted for its probing interviews conducted by" author, journalist and broadcaster, Joe Jackson. That same year, Jackson interviewed Gabriel Byrne for the first time. After reading that interview Byrne told the interviewer, I loved it. At first I was nervous about the controversial aspects but now I am excited about it all. Those really were provocative questions and you set them in such a way that I came up with answers I mig...

“What do you think a hero is? It’s just the right person in the right place making the right choice at the right time. Heroes aren’t born. They’re made.”A demonic assassin. A half-orc boxer. A ratman necromancer. Though they take many different shapes and forms, there are heroes all around us.Bravery can be found in the most unexpected places: a subterranean dwarven city; the sands of a temple courtyard in Ancient Egypt; a besieged castle, a Victorian brothel, a go...

Survival is a dangerous enterprise in the aftermath of a nuked America. Humanity perseveres, but the Deathlands code is far simpler: kill or be killed, live or die trying. Driven by the fires of hope, a resilient band of warriors traverse the new frontier of the future, survivors by skill and legends by reputation.The legend of the trader returns in the simmering dust bowl of the Badlands, the past calling out to armorer J. B. Dix. Her name is Eula. Young, silent and lethal, she's ...

When Joe Jackson was nine years old, he read The Elvis Presley Story paperback. He told his mother, "one day I'm going to Memphis, to thank Mr Phillips for discovering Elvis." On his 10th birthday, Jackson was, he says, "practically reborn" when he discovered "real rock 'n' roll" thanks to a three-year-old Elvis hit called, I Need Your Love Tonight. Two years later, in 1964, he heard for the first time "classic early Elvis uncut such as Good Rockin Tonight" and thus began his lifetime pass...

"Part memoir, part discourse on the art of music. . . . This is an intelligent, thoughtful look into the mind of an artist."-- New York Times Book ReviewSince the release of his first best-selling album Look Sharp in 1979, Joe Jackson has forged a singular career in music through his originality as a composer and his notoriously independent stance toward music-business fashion. He has also been a famously private person, whose lack of interest in h...

In 1985 I was just another Leonard Cohen fan. I had been since 1968 when I heard his glorious 'golden' voice for the first time seeing the equally hypnotic song, Sisters of Mercy. I had seen him in concert in 1970 two 1976 and 1979. As a professional photographer, I also photographed those concerts. However, in early 1985 as I listened to Various Positions, his latest album, and loved in particular, tracks such as Hallelujah and The Night Comes On - though the latter chilled me, and that i...

Previously published as At the End of a Storm is a Golden Sky, (see reviews at the start of this edition) this book now has a new prologue and epilogue and cover. It includes 12 in-depth interviews with world-famous celebrities who have gone through dark, troubled times, in terms of drug abuse, alcohol abuse, the death of family members, loss of wor., despair and even thoughts of suicide. But who nonetheless, have endured and in some cases had epiphanies.It also includes a fragment ...

Like Charles Seifes Zero and Dava Sobels Longitude, this passionate intellectual history is the story of the intersection of science and the human, in this case the rivals who discovered oxygen in the late 1700s. That breakthrough changed the world as radically as those of Newton and Darwin but was at first eclipsed by revolution and reaction. In chronicling the triumph and ruin of the English freethinker Joseph Priestley and the French nobleman Antoine Lavoisier-the fo...

A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2025This immersive epic reveals the origins of the American empire and the lives of those who promoted it and those who resisted it.In 1898, the United States gained an empire, and—many allege—lost its soul. In just a few dramatic weeks, American forces wrested Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines from Spanish rule, but their “splendid little war” had a long and difficult aftermath, ...