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Hilarious Black Comedy Sci-fi Thriller

Coming back from the dead would be a welcome relief, right? But our still unlikely hero, Rik Wallace, doesn’t think so when he finds himself alive again after half a century in a freezer on the dark side of the moon.
Wallace awakens in a future world where tensions between plain old humans – many of whom are...

Hilarious Black Comedy Psychological Thriller

Helping a billionaire give away all his money is easy, right? So our hero thinks, until he discovers that doing the right thing may be the worst possible thing he could do, especially when his own survival and that of his newly-discovered family – who may or may not be related to him – depend on the...

Hilarious Black Comedy Thriller
Passing yourself off as a professor of moral philosophy is easy, right? Our hero thought so until an accidental murder forces him to become a moral authority. Or more exactly, to become Rik Wallace, Professor of Moral Philosophy at CAT College.
As Wallace, our unlikely hero becomes embroiled in a riotous tangle of...

Between pirates, sporting heroes, female companions, scientists, explorers, highwaymen, quacks, poets and rebels, Ireland has had her share of astonishing historical characters.Poet, Madman, Scoundrel takes a selection of Irish men and women from our archives and presents their lives in a broad sweep of Irish history, from Brian Boru to Brendan...

From the quintessential Irish Mammy to love of all things GAA, the Irish have traits that make us different from our neighbours. In this often hilarious guide, social anthropologist David Slattery takes us through the rules of being Irish, from how to approach an Irish wedding or funeral to the Irish attitude to health, business, politics,...