The Brain is a Mystery, Wrapped in an Enigma

My son doesn't remember. He just doesn't. And yet, before he was even in kindergarten, he could read. I don't understand the human brain...

Self Help

And so it begins. The classic coming of age story about a twentysomething girl, finding her way in the city. After graduating (with an Arts degree- questionable choice, but we'll learn about that later) she finds a one bedroom apartment and she buys a cat. Life is sweet. She's a living, breathing, cat-hugging cliche...

Short Writings

Enjoy two pieces from Marian’s collected short writings. One frank and funny account of her experiences as a writer and an uproariously comic dose of counselling from the one and only Mammy Walsh!

A Diary of My Younger Years - The Autobiography of Ivan Hall

This book is the journal of a young Ivan Hall growing up in the south of the U.S. (most of it takes place in Tennessee and Arkansas) around the end of the nineteenth century. It isn't particularly exciting, but instead paints a rather peaceful picture of an area that was, about two generations before, ravaged by civil...

Burqalicious - The Dubai Diaries

For a sassy young woman used to blagging, blogging and slogging her way through dreary London, the call of a glamorous, tax-free lifestyle in sunny Dubai just couldn′t go unanswered. Over the course of two years, while an entire city rose from the dust Becky Wicks scaled a good few rungs of the hard-to-climb career la...

Diary of a Lewis Gunner

Welcome to the Memoirs of Henry James Hawkins - A Lewis Gunner in the First World War

Grandma's Perogies

That day in the kitchen with Grandma when I was was twelve was something new. There were no recipes, no measuring spoons or cups. Just a thousand years of tradition being passed down.

Wayward: Fetching Tales from a Year on the Road

Wayward: Fetching Tales from a Year on the Road is a hilarious and heartfelt ride around the world, wherein the author eats dog, obsesses about chewing gum, gets stranded on an island, does dirty things, reveres rock n roll and muses about everything from death to Star Trek to the President Obama to jail time. Now ava...

Out of the Box

An incredible true story - in 1964 my father, British Javelin champion John McSorley, built a man-size box and shipped it from Heathrow airport. The airfreight was human; his friend Reg Spiers, a penniless young Australian athlete desperate to get home and win back his girl. He was in for the ride of his life; a night...

Memoirs of an Outlaw: Life in the Sandbox

In Fallujah, during a particularly difficult time in the Iraq War, a group of Marines are deployed on a tour that will bring them closer together, while threatening to tear them apart. The Delta Company Outlaws are a group of USMC infantrymen deployed in 2004 to one of the most hostile war zones in the world. Through...

Have You No Shame? And Other Regrettable Stories

Growing up in white-bread Omaha, Nebraska, Rachel Shukert was one of thirty-seven students (circa 1990) in Nebraska’s only Jewish elementary school. She spent her days dreaming of a fantasy Aryan boyfriend named Chris McPresbyterian, a tall blond god whose family spoke softly in public and did not inquire after his bo...