Frank O Connor: 14 books

Bellrock cove is a busy seaside resort at the mouth of the River Shannon. Its also home to an Elite Coastguard Special Operations unit. Primarily their job is search and rescue, but a busy waterway brings many challenges and smuggling is one that regularly puts their detection skills to the test....

Frank O’Connor’s acclaimed autobiography, now in one volume When Frank O’Connor was born, his parents—Minnie O’Connor, a former maid raised in an orphanage, and Michael O’Donovan, a veteran of the Boer War and the drummer in a local brass-and-reed band—lived above a sweet-and-tobacco...

The most generous one-volume collection ever published of short stories, autobiographical writings,poetry, and essays by the writer Yeats called “Ireland’s Chekhov.”   Selected and arranged thematically by Julian Barnes, the rich mix of writings in The Best of Frank O’Connor...

Irish literary heavyweight Frank O’Connor translates the ribald and raucous Gaelic masterpiece in a work originally banned by the Irish government. As a teacher and translator of Irish verse, Frank O’Connor brought to the world’s attention many fine poems from his native land, few as...

Compelling tales of the clergy from the renowned author. “The work of Frank O’Connor lies at the very heart of the modern story in Ireland” (The Washington Post). Over the course of his long and distinguished career, Frank O’Connor wrote many stories about priests. Some of his most...

The definitive collection from an Irish literary icon, “one of the masters of the short story” (Newsweek). In the words of W. B. Yeats, Frank O’Connor “did for Ireland what Chekhov did for Russia.” Anne Tyler, writing in the Chicago Sun-Times, described his tales as “encapsulated...

Twenty Christmas ghost stories from the supernatural masters of the Victorian age. Wimbourne Books presents the second in a series of rare or out-of-print ghost stories from Victorian authors. With an introduction by author Alastair Gunn, Volume 2 in the series spans the years 1836 to 1899, contains...

Award-winning edition of this outstanding translation of Brian Merriman's eighteenth-century erotic masterpiece. Translated by Frank O'Connor Illustrations by Brian Bourke.

A sensational short story collection in the expansive universe of HALO, the New York Times bestselling series! Launch once more into galaxy-spanning conflict and legendary heroism…shards of an ever-expanding journey where human and alien alike find their finest hours in facing their greatest...

Moments is a book of reflections and observations that gives fresh insight into seemingly simple everyday moments."Tommy Frank O'Connor writes with the heart and spirit of a man of faith coupled with the vision and perception of a poet. In these gems of observation he shares with us his sense...

This book leads you from occupational first aid to cardiac first responder and on to advanced first aid without any difficulty. There are over 165 photographs and illustrations and 27 algorithms to guide you through the skill sets. This book is an ideal reference book for the home, the educational...

An all-new digital single—part of the New York Times bestselling series based on the blockbuster Xbox® games! The military-grade artificial intelligence known as Iona has only one week to live. After that, the UNSC will legally terminate her seven-year existence in order to stave off the...

Who would ever say no to the master story tellers when they have to offer their darkest tingling Christmas mysteries and horror tales as a holiday present: The Silver Hatchet (Arthur Conan Doyle) What the Shepherd Saw: A Tale of Four Moonlight Nights (Thomas Hardy) Markheim (Robert Louis Stevenson)...

Best of weibliche Erotik! - 69 unterschiedliche Autorinnen haben uns ihre gehiemsten Sexfantasien geschildert, die wir in einem Sammelband it fast 900 Seiten zusammengefasst haben. Lesen Sie Storys zu vielen unterschiedlichen Themen, wie zum Beispiel: Voyeurismus, Sex im Büro, Hure aus Leidenschaft,...