Hattie Jacques was a middle aged woman living in a small town in New Mexico One morning she came from her bed to find a strange man seated in her kitchen.  Returning to the room she took  a gun and put it in the side pocket of  her dressing gown. When she came back to the kitchen, the fellow was still there. In spite of his appearance he projected no sense of threat. In fact he seemed more nervous of her than she was of him. That much was evident from the way his eye...

They say human life is the most precious thing. The Collector doesn't agree.When world renowned archaeologist Philip Carlton suddenly and unexpectedly commits suicide, the police are called to investigate. Heading up the investigation is Detective Lucy O'Hara, a Forensic Linguist – and she immediately sees something is wrong with the suicide note. In her gut, she knows this was cold-blooded murder.Battling sceptical superiors and the Irish establishment, Lu...

Her name is Fearless.Her given name is Hattie Jacques.She hears voices.She ignored them for most of her life. Everything changed the day her husband diedThe voices take her to a ramshackle town in the American desert. Jerusalem Landing is in New Mexico. It is an odd place in a state where odd places abound. Different kinds of Magic collide there. Some years it is peaceful. Some years it is hell on earth. It occurs between October and November. When Scorpio r...

Carmen's Legacy tells the story of a family's journey of tragedy and hope. At Age forty-two, John Maher was involved in a fatal car crash in which he was severely injured and, the eighteen-year-old driver of the other vehicle was killed. Thankfully, John was not at fault. His injuries were so severe that doctors informed him he would never work again. Married with four daughters in either secondary school or university, this was a tremendous blow to this young family.Ange (John's w...

I have always been interested in Myth, Magic, Psychology, Romance and History. When I began as a writer it was inevitable that these passions would find their way into the writing.Freud believed that the Irish was the only race on which Psychoanalysis would be wasted. The Irish live close to what Jung referred to as the Numinous.. It is.the uncanny, the sacred and mysterious..

Can it be that the human brain possesses an in-built faculty for language?Noam Chomsky, one of the most brilliant linguists of the 20th century, believes that it does- that there exists a 'universal grammar' common to all languages. Around the world children learn, in very similar ways, languages that seem entirely different. This is possible, Chomsky argues, because all human languages and their grammatical structures are linked in the human brain.Chomsky is controversial ...

Carmen's Legacy tells the story of a family's journey of tragedy and hope. At Age forty-two, John Maher was involved in a fatal car crash in which he was severely injured and, the eighteen-year-old driver of the other vehicle was killed. Thankfully, John was not at fault. His injuries were so severe that doctors informed him he would never work again. Married with four daughters in either secondary school or university, this was a tremendous blow to this young family.However, there ...

What might a 'theory of everything' look like? Is science an ideology? Who were Adorno, Horkheimer or the Frankfurt School? The decades since the 1960s have seen an explosion in the production of critical theories. Deconstructionists, poststructuralists, postmodernists, second-wave feminists, new historicists, cultural materialists, postcolonialists, black critics and queer theorists, among a host of others, all vie for our attention. Stuart Sim and Borin Van Loon's incisive graphic guide ...

The life of an adventurer isn’t always a glamorous one. Belgrieve finds this out the hard way when a deadly encounter robs him of his leg and the ability to pursue his dreams not long after setting off for fame and fortune. But fate isn’t finished with this retired adventurer! While gathering herbs in the wilderness, he discovers an abandoned baby girl and names her Angeline after deciding to raise her as his own. Angeline grows up to become a top-tier adventurer in her own right, yet afte...

It’s late on Friday night when Casey’s mobile starts to ring. She is expecting it to be her daughter Riley. But it isn’t Riley. It’s a woman from the Emergency Duty Team. So begins Casey and Mike’s latest fostering challenge – a fifteen-year-old girl called Keeley who’s run away from her long-term foster home 25 miles away.The Jonathan Ross Show has just started when Casey gets the call. She thinks it will be Riley – telling her that her favourite actor is going to be on TV. But it...

**Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2025In this provocative dialogue, a Nobel laureate novelist and a leading translator investigate the nature of language and the challenges of translation.“An intelligent, moving, and supremely humane act of criticism that reveals just how difficult and wondrous it can be to inhabit a language that is not your own.” — Merve Emre**Language, historically speaking, has always been slippery. Two dictionaries provide two different map...

★★★★★ “Science fiction with danger, mystery and love.”Raina and Wizard are back, racing across the Northern Waste to outrun ice pirates—and chasing a distress call that may hold the truth about Wizard’s sister Tatiana, long presumed dead… and now possibly alive.But instead of answers, all they find are buried secrets and a trap ready to snap its jaws.A brand-new novella set between the events of Driven and Hidden—perfect for new re...