Who is Rampaging Roy Slaven? An Australian icon, a raconteur, an athlete of unsurpassable - and some may say improbable - sporting feats. Whether it was riding Rooting King to another Melbourne Cup victory, commentating the Olympics or hobnobbing with the country's upper crust, Rampaging Roy Slaven has lived an extraordinary life.But even some of the greatest men come from humble beginnings. Before he shot to fame as Australia's most talented sportsman, he was just another kid in L...

The life and career of a Poet is often thought of as musing at a desk, or lying in a meadow or on long journeys to find inspiration for their next masterwork. But more often than not a poet was a part-time profession in subservient submission to their actual, salary-paying job.In this volume we bring together men of the cloth, those people of faith who spent most of their lives in devotional duties in the service of one so they could, in their spare time, serve another.In t...

“In this honest, self reflective piece, John so beautifully and succinctly shares of his experience in theatre and the passion with which he pursues the opportunity to create art that is connective tissue for humanity and a reflection of the time we live in.” - Cynthia Erivo, Tony, Grammy and Emmy Award-winning star of WickedDirector John Doyle is an unlikely revolutionary. Described by critics as 'the saviour of the Broadway musical', the 'amazing Mr Musi...

It was early days of home movies when Newfoundland businessman Gerald S. Doyle purchased a Ciné-Kodak camera at Macy’s in New York City in 1938. Though film for the camera was expensive and had to be sent to Kodak for processing, and there was no sound, early home movies had one significant advantage: Kodachrome. Twenty years before colour snapshots became common, amateurs could capture movies in Kodachrome’s rich tones. Doyle’s new movie camera became his constant companion during his tra...

In The World is a Ball, critic and author John Doyle travels the world in pursuit of his first love - football. In dispatches from Italy to Ireland and from Buenos Aires to Bratislava, and between encounters with crazed taxi drivers and drunken fans dressed as leprechauns or in lederhosen, Doyle celebrates the evolution of soccer as a global phenomenon.He begins his journey with the first game he saw in repressed 1960s Ireland - a match which left a lastin...

‘We started off, my wife Anne and I, with a big field, bare except for grass and rushes and, along one ditch, a couple of old elder trees, and at the end a big willow bush, probably marking a division of land. Thirty years later it is a wood, a garden, with an orchard of apples and soft fruit, and it is full of birdsong. The work of many hands has gone into making it: some hands have been directly laid on; a great many other people provided inspiration.’Salt Wind, Rising Water

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.When the World's Greatest Detective Meets the World's Fastest WitnessSherlock Holmes has faced countless mysteries, but never one quite like this. When champion racehorse Silver Blaze vanishes on the same night his trainer is found murdered on the fog-shrouded moors of Dartmoor, Scotland Yard is baffled and the owner is desperate.Enter Holmes—and his most unusual partner yet: Septimus, a keen-eyed greyho...

In "The Adventures of Raffles & Sherlock Holmes," readers are invited into a world where wits and charm are exquisitely interwoven with the thrill of criminal cunning and detective prowess. This anthology explores the intersections of gentlemanly crime and brilliant deduction, set within the late 19th and early 20th centuries—a literary era known for its fascination with the detective and the antihero. The collection showcases a broad spectrum of narrative styles, from the intricate puzzle...

A subtitle of this book is “The Lost World Under the Sea,” and it’s somewhat based on the famed legend of Atlantis. That was an ancient city or continent that was supposedly inundated by the sea. Whether it actually existed has been a question that has lasted for thousands of years. Greek philosopher Plato wrote about it around 360 BC, so even his possible information was second-hand. Tsunamis (sea storms) have existed for centuries and if there really was an Atlantis, any survivors may ha...

A story of Paul, a small-town librarian and a peeping Tom who falls in love with Bronwyn, a blind girl.

Celebrated TV critic John Doyle has penned an Irish memoir that gives a portrait of a boy and his country transformed by television. Funny, insightful, and engaging, A Great Feast of Light begins in the small town of Nenagh, where young John's father purchased the family's first television in 1962, and ends in 1979 with the Pope's historic visit to the Emerald Isle, the appearance of "Dallas" on Irish TV, and twenty-two-year-old John's escape to North America. By day, John was schooled by ...

Sherlock Holmes is the greatest detective the world has ever seen, and he knows it. As the famous bank-robber John Clay says to him, ‘You think of everything, Mr Holmes. You’re very clever.’ People come to him with problems that no one, not even the police, can solve. Holmes sits, and thinks, and smokes his pipe, and in the end he finds the answer. In these plays, based on two of his stories, Holmes, helped by his old friend, Dr Watson, uses his great intelligence to solve two unusual and ...