Download or read book Bopping in Ballymalloy written by Dermod Judge and published by Book Guild Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s Ireland in the 1950s and they’re both running away, Curly from failure as a dancer in New York and Mary from the utter boredom of Ballymalloy in the West of Ireland. Mary is seduced by his flashy car, his collection of great swing music and his style on and off the dance floor. She succumbs and to atone for the inevitable shame he has caused her, he has to give her the only thing she wants – entry into the unforgiving world he thought he’d left forever. He trains her as a jazz dancer and enters her into a competition that offers her a ticket out of town. The book probes the lives of several inhabitants of Ballymalloy and reveals some funny desires, efforts and strivings. It also probes some horrifying goings on in the workhouses and the industrial schools to which were sent thousands of unwanted children by the church and the religious orders over the decades. Details of these tragic and often fatal stories are still emerging in modern Ireland. However, this story is set in a less complicated time, when America felt good about itself and was admired all over Western Europe. When American technology was supreme and when jazz and bop ruled the world. Dermod Judge is an Irish author currently living in Cape Town, South Africa. He has had a varied career in storytelling across theatre and film – from broadcasting, writing, designing, directing and filmmaking. Dermod is an international award-winning filmmaker, script editor and international lecturer on storytelling and filmmaking. Lately he has returned to the writing of novels and published Clash(ISBN9781912083879) and Two Jam Jars for the Manor (ISBN 9781912083053) with The Book Guild in 2017, both of which were set in Ireland with Irish themes.
Download or read book A Healing Place written by Dermod Judge and published by Book Guild Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One man’s quest to finding his healing place! Searching for a residence in nature which he can call his own, Dermod Judge finally finds his healing place where he will have respite from the quotidian pressures of life.
Download or read book Fatal Exposure written by Dermod Judge and published by Book Guild Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-28 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photography has long been used to capture events. His finest photograph was to cause them. When Derek takes an intimate photograph of his first love, he sets a sequence of events in motion that threatens them both. When he displays the photograph in public, she loses her freedom and he stands to lose the love of his life. Kidnapped by an extremist group, she faces a forced marriage and total denial of the lifestyle in which she thrives. To rescue her and redeem himself, Derek has to form an alliance with an unlikely source – the handsome rival for her love.
Download or read book Lost on the Sea of Galilee written by Dermod Judge and published by Book Guild Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-28 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Gillcrest is a skilful painter who succumbs to the dangerous attractions of art forgery, descending through increasingly challenging fakes to an active role in the art heist of the century.
Download or read book A Tangled Tale written by Dermod Judge and published by Book Guild Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the dangers of storytelling. When writer Pat Quinn decides to document the violent history of the gangs in his city, he intends to disguise it as fiction.
Download or read book MacBride s Wars written by Dermod Judge and published by Book Guild Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Major John MacBride learns when leading the Irish Brigade in the Second Anglo-Boer War against the British Empire isn’t much help when fighting his estranged wife in the French courts.
Download or read book Only Hummingbirds Fly Backwards written by Rosie Parker and published by Book Guild Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-28 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ronnie and Jake are twins – obviously not identical, but close as. They even have that twin intuition thing going on.
Download or read book The Dignity of Silence written by June Felton and published by Book Guild Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prague. It’s 1942, and all Jews are being summoned to the Death Camps. Ernst’s wife dies in childbirth, and he escapes to London with his two-year old daughter Sophie. Grieving and guilt ridden he believes the pain of their loss can only be dealt with by remaining silent about their past. A decision that determines Sophie’s future.
Download or read book Emeralds Among the Sand written by Francesca Fratamico and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel revolves around Thomas (an English fisherman), his flatmate Roderigo and a mysterious woman, Mariella. Thomas and Roderigo both fall under Mariella's spell, but as their relationships strengthen, friendships are destroyed, falsehoods are told, and dark pasts are revealed.
Download or read book Of No Consequence written by E. Hannavy-Cousen and published by Book Guild Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-28 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some strangers are dangerous, some embody kindness. Joanna can survive only by learning who is who, and which is which, before it is too late.
Download or read book After Extra Time and Penalties Memories of a BBC Football Correspondent written by Mike Ingham and published by Book Guild Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-28 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After almost a quarter-century as the BBC's Chief Football Correspondent, Mike Ingham MBE shares a candid, comprehensive and sometimes controversial account of how the world of broadcasting and football changed beyond recognition throughout his career.
Download or read book The Woodcarver of Krakow written by Rachel Clare and published by Book Guild Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-28 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two brothers. Bound by a promise. Torn apart by war. Tadeusz and Jacek Lewandowski are the closest of brothers. After the tragedy of losing their mother and with their father in the Polish army, they are raised by their grandfather, a skilled wood-craftsman. They enjoy an idyllic childhood in the Tatra Mountains.
Download or read book Their Exits and Their Entrances written by Paul A. Mendelson and published by Book Guild Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-28 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We used to get standing ovations. Now we get ovations for standing. The last place in which that great lady of the theatre Elspeth Quest wishes to spend her final years is Dustingford Hall, rest-home for retired actors and entertainers.
Download or read book So Much More the Man written by Stephen La Marchand and published by Book Guild Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-28 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip is an English teacher in Worcester, nearing retirement. Feeling melancholy, as another academic year approaches, he looks back with sadness at his life because, although happy and successful, it has been unremarkable.
Download or read book The Most Singular Adventures of Sarah Lloyd written by Eleanor Berry and published by Book Guild Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ADVENTURE / THRILLER. This gripping and hilarious thriller cleverly combines the political and the supernatural. It is the story of Sarah Lloyd, an attention-seeking young woman from a wealthy newspaper family based in London. When Sarah stays with her cousins in Ireland, she and her Uncle Seamus (not a blood relation) fall in love. Even Seamus's dark and secret other life does not deter Sarah and, if anything, it increases her devotion to him. However, when the couple move to London, Sarah's life is blighted by the perverse attentions and intense jealousy of her boss, Dr Blenkinsop, whose destructive influence rapidly leads to appalling tragedy.
Download or read book The Fall Out written by D. J. Arthur and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-28 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anita and Marilyn are inseparable, despite their differing characters. When Anita marries David, his own best friend, John, soon falls for Marilyn. The two couple's lives become firmly entwined. A novel of two women, their marriages and the looming EU referendum all centred around a story of ambiguous motives.
Download or read book Bluemantle written by Karen Langston and published by Book Guild Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-28 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIVE MUSIC IS OUTLAWED. Set in the sun-scorched city of Wydeye, the totalitarian Authority controls its citizens through fear and cultivated dependence. Live music is deemed a threat to order and is forbidden by law. Punishment for participation is severe.
