Eddie O'Sullivan: Never Die Wondering

Eddie O'Sullivan: Never Die Wondering
Author: Eddie O'Sullivan
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2009-10-13
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1409067203

Hear the story of the rise of one of Irish rugby's great outsiders and, ultimately, his crushing fall. As the longest-serving national coach in Irish rugby history, Eddie O'Sullivan produced a team that rose to third in the world rankings and laid down the standards for the team to fulfil its Grand Slam potential. Added to the three Triple Crowns he won in his six-year reign and the Corkman ought to enjoy legendary status in his homeland. Yet, few figures in Irish sport divide opinion quite like O'Sullivan. Ireland's abject performance at the '07 World Cup in France prompted extraordinary levels of criticism and precipitated O'Sullivan's fall. Here O'Sullivan talks candidly of the spectacular unravelling of confidence within probably the best Irish team in history; of the bizarre rumour mill that followed the Irish team through that World Cup; and takes us behind the scenes of a story that tossed an entire nation into mourning. From his relationships with his successor as Irish coach, Declan Kidney, and indeed his predecessor, Warren Gatland, to his early struggle for recognition in the Irish game when the absence of a traditional rugby background militated against him, O'Sullivan pulls no punches in this revelatory story about far more than rugby.

Never Die Wondering

Never Die Wondering
Author: Eddie O'Sullivan
Publisher: Century
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-09-03
Genre: Rugby Union football
ISBN: 9781846053993

Here, for the first time, the longest-serving national coach in Irish rugby history, Eddie O'Sullivan, talks of the spectacular unraveling of confidence within probably the best Irish team in history and the vitriol it decanted. He talks candidly of the bizarre rumor mill that followed the Irish team through the World Cup tournament and takes us behind the scenes of a story that tossed an entire nation into mourning. O'Sullivan writes with surprising candor about his relationships with his successor as Irish coach, Declan Kidney, and his predecessor, Warren Gatland. He describes his early struggle for recognition in the Irish game when the absence of a traditional rugby background militated against him. Flying in the face of many stubborn preconceptions, O'Sullivan's writing pulls no punches on the people he rates in rugby and the people he doesn't. Here is the story of the rise of one of Irish rugby's great outsiders and, ultimately, his crushing fall.

The Uncommon Prayer-Book (Fantasy and Horror Classics)

The Uncommon Prayer-Book (Fantasy and Horror Classics)
Author: M. R. James
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Total Pages: 25
Release: 2016-01-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1473379245

M. R. James was born in Kent, England in 1862. James came to writing fiction relatively late, not publishing his first collection of short stories - Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904) - until the age of 42. Modern scholars now see James as having redefined the ghost story for the 20th century and he is seen as the founder of the 'antiquarian ghost story'. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions with a brand new introductory biography of the author.

St. Gerard Majella

St. Gerard Majella
Author: Eduard Saint-Omer
Publisher: TAN Books
Total Pages: 335
Release: 1999-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1618904671

The Hour of Land

The Hour of Land
Author: Terry Tempest Williams
Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2016-05-31
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0374712263

America’s national parks are breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadily disappearing, which is why more than 300 million people visit the parks each year. Now Terry Tempest Williams, the author of the environmental classic Refuge and the beloved memoir When Women Were Birds, returns with The Hour of Land, a literary celebration of our national parks, an exploration of what they mean to us and what we mean to them. From the Grand Tetons in Wyoming to Acadia in Maine to Big Bend in Texas and more, Williams creates a series of lyrical portraits that illuminate the unique grandeur of each place while delving into what it means to shape a landscape with its own evolutionary history into something of our own making. Part memoir, part natural history, and part social critique, The Hour of Land is a meditation and a manifesto on why wild lands matter to the soul of America.

The Room in the Tower

The Room in the Tower
Author: E. F. Benson
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Total Pages: 17
Release: 2015-04-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1473372771

The terrifying story of a young man who has recurring nightmares. A classic story of fear from the master of Edwardian Literature. This classic short story, originally published in 1912, is being republished here together with a new introductory biography of the author.