From the bestselling author of The Ministry of Utmost HappinessAn extraordinary secret meeting between four brilliant political activists: Booker Prize-winner Arundhati Roy, NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden, Pentagon Papers insider Daniel Ellsberg and acclaimed actor John Cusack'What sort of love is this love that we have for countries? What sort of country is it that will ever live up to our dreams? What sort of dreams were t...

SORVEGLIANZA DI MASSAE LIBERTA’ DI ESPRESSIONE DEI CITTADINI:UNA SFIDA APERTA«Nelle mani di Arundhati le parole diventano armi.»Naomi Klein«Un incontro straordinario.»The NEw York TimesNell’inverno del 2014, l’attore americano John Cusack, da sempre impegnato sul fronte dei diritti civili, ha un’idea. Far incontrare i due più celebri whistleblower americani, due fedeli s...

An activist and an actor reflect on Edward Snowden and the surveillance state in this collection that "reads like a whistleblower's travel diary" ( Disorient).In late 2014, Arundhati Roy, John Cusack, and Daniel Ellsberg traveled to Moscow to meet with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. The result was a series of essays and dialogues in which Roy and Cusack reflect on their conversations with Snowden. In these provocative and penetrating discussions, Roy an...

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Arundhati Roy et John Cusack se lancent dans un pari un peu fou : aller rendre visite à Edward Snowden à Moscou, où il est réfugié politique. De ce défi naît une passionnante série d’essais et de conversations, de l’émergence de cette idée jusqu’à la rencontre avec ce fameux lanceur d’alerte, ancien employé de la CIA et de la NSA. Accompagnés pour cette entrevue historique de Daniel Ellsberg, un autre lanceur d’alerte qui avait fourni en 1971 les "papiers du Pentagone" au New York Times, i...

From bestselling author John Boyne, a gripping and profound exploration of guilt, blame, trauma, and the human capacity for redemption. This program features multicast narration.In The Elements, acclaimed Irish novelist John Boyne has created an epic saga that weaves together four interconnected narratives, each representing a different perspective on crime: the enabler, the accomplice, the perpetrator, and the victim.The narrative follows a mother...

In John Bede Cusack's fictionalised military memoir 'They Hosed Them Out', fact and fiction intersect to tell the powerful story of one man's experience as an air gunner during the Second World War. Cusack transcends the limitations of non-fiction and traditional war literature to evoke not only the well-documented horrors of war but also the adventure. Written with a profound mixture of bitterness and cynicism, humour and camaraderie, Cusack's sardonic Australian humour offers a unique an...

Brought to you by Penguin.The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the locals, she is Willow Hale, a solitary outsider escaping Dublin to live a hermetic existence in a small cottage, not a notorious woman on the run from her past.But scandals follow like hunting dogs. And she has some questions of her own to answer. If her ex-husband is really the monster everyone says he is, then how complicit was she in hi...

Society recognises a more diverse range of sexual identities than ever before, but people often still think we have to choose one and stick to it forever. If the idea of a single, unchanging sexual identity just doesn't fit right - this is the book for you.Challenging binary notions of sexuality and gender, this is a deep exploration of fluid sexuality, exploring its relationship to bisexuality, multisexuality, asexuality and gender fluidity. Chapters cover everything from understa...

Cornwall is quintessentially a maritime region. Almost an island, nowhere in it is further than 25 miles from the sea. Cornwall’s often distinctive history has been moulded by this omnipresent maritime environment, while its strategic position at the western approaches—jutting out into the Atlantic—has given this history a global impact.It is perhaps surprising then, that, despite the central place of the sea in Cornwall’s history, there has not yet been a full maritime history of ...

One of the best-known Irish playwrights, John Millington Synge premiered The Playboy of the Western World in 1907. It immediately provoked controversy, eventually resulting in the infamous ‘Playboy’ riots. It has been recorded and adapted many times, but this timeless recording stars the Irish actors who made it a classic, including Siobhan McKenna and Cyril Cusack.