Richard Wall

In 532 CE Constantinople, fans of the Blue and Green chariot racing teams take an extraordinary turn from their destructive rioting and unite to overthrow the Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian the Great. Gaius Galen Licinius, who straddles the worlds of street fighters and the wealthy, is forced into the middle of this rebellion as the city slides into chaos.A former Green faction rioter who profited from his unique ability to direct a mob against specific properties, Gaius Galen now leads a respectable life, determined to hide his criminal past. But an anonymous powerful client forces Gaius to revive his riot skills by threatening death for his friend's daughter and everyone Gaius holds dear. He forms a new street gang of monks, Goths, actors and hooligans to lead against his client's targets.An observant, funny hero, Gaius battles self-doubt, his father's abuse, the unsettling re-appearance of his eunuch mentor Chrysanthos, and the pressure of leading his gang into life and death situations that are likely traitorous. He helps bring the Blue and Green rivals together for the first time ever, seemingly unstoppable and gaining senatorial allies. But Gaius has been manipulated by Chrysanthos working for Justinian, who sets a trap for the rebellious fans prepared to proclaim a new emperor.

Fans Against the Empire

Blue Green

Near Death is the second chilling novel from Richard Wall, author of the acclaimed Amazon #1 bestseller, Fat Man Blues. With troubled heroes and a terrifyingly unstoppable villain clashing in authentic 1960s America, Near Death is a book you will not be able to put down. ﻿"See you on the other side, Preacher Man." These are the last words of Joseph Hickey, a psychopath executed at Sing Sing prison for the murder of the Howell family in New York State. After giving the last rites and watching Hickey die, troubled prison chaplain John Henry Beauregard quits his job to start a new life in the Appalachian Mountains. Hickey's death should have been the end of the nightmare, but then another family is murdered in identical circumstances, and John Henry is called back to New York to give the last rites to the killer. As the killings continue, John Henry is drawn into a mystery with devastating consequences. Is it possible to commit murder from beyond the grave? Can John Henry stop the endless cycle of torment and solve the mystery before it is too late?

Near Death

A unique examination of the effects of the First World War on family life.

Family, Work, and Welfare in Europe, 1914-1918

The Upheaval of War

"Hobo John" is an English blues enthusiast on a pilgrimage to present-day Mississippi. One night in Clarksdale he meets the mysterious Fat Man, who offers him the chance to see the real blues of the 1930s. Unable to refuse, Hobo John embarks on a journey through the afterlife in the company of Travellin' Man, an old blues guitarist who shows him the sights, sounds and everyday life in the Mississippi Delta. Along the way, the Englishman discovers the harsh realities behind his romantic notion of the music he loves and the true price of the deal that he has made.

Fat Man Blues

Beatrice Moring

A deeply researched and geographically wide-ranging study that reveals that widows were much more economically and socially active than is often thought.

Widows in European Economy and Society, 1600-1920

This is the first reference work to provide the general reader, as well as the specialist, with direct and easy access to the English language as it has been used in Irish literature. Quotations from writers ranging from AE to Zozimus, including Nobel laureates Yeats, Shaw, Beckett, and Heaney, are used to illustrate vocabulary and idioms. From archaeology ("crannog") to zoology ("graunogue"), almost every aspect of Ireland and Irish life over the past 400 years is reflected in this volume.

An Irish Literary Dictionary and Glossary

Tamara K. Hareven

Josef Ehmer

Markus Cerman

This collection of original essays by scholars on the historical study of the family from various parts of the world represent a new departure in this field. The essays cover a great variety of topics, and many countries are represented. The essays open up new debates and point to new directions in the field by examining dimensions of family relations that had not been sufficiently addressed in previous scholarship.

Comparative Perspectives

Family History Revisited

Jay Winter

Family, Work and Welfare in Europe, 1914-1918

Having visited Ireland regularly during the 1930s, Ludwig Wittgenstein resigned his Cambridge philosophy professorship in 1947 and moved there, living in a fishing village on the Atlantic coast and hotels in Dublin and the Wicklow Mountains. Although Wittgenstein spent some time out of the country, Ireland was effectively his base for three very productive years during which he worked on what would become one of his key books, the posthumously published Philosophical Investigations. Wittgenstein in Ireland represents the first sustained account of Wittgenstein's time in Ireland, placing it in its historical context. Wall pays a good deal of attention to the representation of the Irish landscape in which the Austrian philosopher found himself able to work; a large part of his writings were produced in the bleak landscapes of Ireland and Norway.

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