What is Cecil and Noreen's secret? How is a love affair sustained over a lifetime?. Cecil Connolly is a man of few words. Each year, in the days leading up to his wedding anniversary, as he lies in bed in his Catholic nursing home, he takes his old cash-box from the bedside cabinet and removes his most precious possessions, the letters his wife wrote to him in the months leading up to their marriage fifty-nine years ago. And each morning, when she comes to visit her husband, Noreen too loo...

"Patrick Corcoran's first novel, Last Light Breaking, breaks a silence, telling the story of a survivor of the Great War slaughter who, fearing hostility to his British Army past in post-revolutionary Ireland, chose invisibility as a village postmaster in Somerset for forty years. Corcoran's evocations of a turn-of-the-century Carlow adolescence, dominated by religious mystification and sexual initiation, of chaotic trench warfare, and of inter-war seaside domesticity, are skilful and vivi...

Includes the First World War Illustrations Pack – 73 battle plans and diagrams and 198 photos"A bikers war-compellingly recounted"The highly dangerous task of the aide-de-camp was often to carry urgent despatches with essential calls to action across the field of battle. The young men chosen for the job were invariably dashing, brave and prepared to take risks to achieve their objectives. They were, of course, always expert horsemen. The age of the military horseman had not q...

In the midst of the Great War, Austin Patrick Corcoran embarked on a perilous journey as a buzzer and despatch rider. His memoir, "The Daredevil of the Army," chronicles his extraordinary experiences navigating the treacherous battlefields of France and Belgium. From daring missions behind enemy lines to harrowing encounters with death, Corcoran's vivid account transports readers to the heart of the conflict, offering a gripping and unforgettable glimpse into the lives of those who risked ...