A novella sized piece covering the Ulster troubles, called the Stormont Riots, the street battles and intrigues of Ulster Protestants and IRA."John Bryson has the skills of literary journalism, and abundant luck" a Penguin Books copywriter wrote for a back cover, and this was the case in 1986 in Belfast, where I was to launch a book, and stayed on to cover the sectarian war of that year, the worst for many years.'A man was crucified in a Belfast park last night...'

Amid 150,000 people, the author re-meets an old schoolmate at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Dedication inWashington, DC on November 13, 1982**,** and what unfolds is a love story between two unlikely people; Mike, a veteran of the 173rd Airborne Brigade (Sep), Ranger Medic and LRRP, haunted by his time in service, and Martha, a successful NYC entrepreneur

Creating Public Value in Practice: Advancing the Common Good in a Multi-Sector, Shared-Power, No-One-Wholly-in-Charge World brings together a stellar cast of thinkers to explore issues of public and cross-sector decision-making within a framework of democratic civic engagement. It offers an integrative approach to understanding and applying the con

In Rage, Rebellion - A volume comprising three feature pieces:Backstage at the RevolutionWhile the African National Congress was a banned organization in South Africa, and the white minority ruled with gunfire, the ANC theatre troupe Amandla toured the world. Amandla is Power. Every performer is a trained soldier and musician, dancer. Here is their tour of Australia.Beginning in darkness, the Overture is unlike any music theatergoers have heard before.

Islanders, Far South - Three feature pieces and one column piece in one volume, events in the lives of southern fishing communities in Tasmania.1.Pride of the Crayfish Fleet.Life in the Bass Strait Islands, out of the Port of Lady Barron.THE CRAYFISH I HOLD in my hand is forty years old. By whatever system of temporal measurement crayfish use, it is a very old man. In a few weeks its tail will be sliced into the white discs restaurateurs like to call medallions, and ...

Whoring Around, a novella in six stories.PrologueBlowing ItBetween WhoresDreaming of GloryA Sense of ProprietyMore and more we lunched at his tennis club. He had recently become its honorary treasurer. I remember an afternoon, with the washed blues and faint yellows of early winter, when we ate on the terrace. The stonework was damp where the sun had not touched it. The other tables were empty, so it was early in the week.Humphrey's world...

A novel written true to the histories, and true to the memories of Enric Torres i Barbo, whose life and philosophies this novel takes for its guide.Twin boys Enric and Josep, at ten years of age, served as spies and couriers in the Resistance by the Republican Spanish against the invasion of Fascist forces in Spain, then from Italy and Germany during the Civil War.In Catalonia the war begins in Barcelona.THE MAZE of alleys and passageways of the old city as we passe...

The Personality of War - A volume comprising five pieces.Dresden.Now an old man, a onetime Air Force flyer recalls his time in the night sky during the bombing of Dresden.For the incineration of a hundred and forty thousand souls, if things went right, for the destruction of a graceful city, of its old walls and obedient gardens, they flew east. He was the navigator.Rehearsals for the Death of Taipei.One day every year Taiwan practiced its defenses agai...

Five Asian pieces, four from Kalimantan, Singapore, Taipei, Hong Kong, and one column piece from Samarinda, in one volume.His Brow in Feathers, the Dyak Chieftain and his Equation for the Order of Time.A Festival of Redemption, led by the Chief of the People Benuaq, Dyaks of the Central Lakes, Borneo.His lake was once a mountain, which inverted its form in an act of compassion for people who were without fishing grounds. The people are grateful. They und...

Brilliant Artists in TrioA volume of three feature pieces.Janet Baker, the Wind in Her Hair.Opera's Dame Janet, now retired from the stage to song performance, takes to sea on a yacht, the better to understand the rhythms of Elgar's Sea Pictures, of which she is already the world's authority.She was playing with the sound of the waves from the bow, it seemed to me, "Never before under sail', she said. It was very close to song....

Here is Brodie, an expatriate trader in New Guinea, whose understanding of the sorceries and rituals he now lives with is moving close to respect and wonderment. He watches his visiting daughter, a twelve year old, being captivated by this culture of theatre.The place was packed. Tiptoe, over the matt-black heads of the crowd, he could see the performers. He edged closer, but so rapt was everyone that none of them looked around. The figure who held their attention was not from anyw...

The basis for the Meryl Streep film A Cry in the Dark: The dramatic true story of a mother's worst nightmare and the murder trial that shocked Australia.On a camping trip at Ayer's Rock, the Chamberlain family's infant daughter disappeared in the middle of the night. Her distraught mother, Lindy, claimed she saw a dingo carry her off into the Australian outback. Two years later, their tragedy worsened when, without a murder weapon, a body, or even a motive,...