Kirjahaku

Having spent a week on the beautiful island of Mallorca with his wife, Francis decided it would be a wonderful place to live.But what to do there?Then he hit on the brilliant idea of running a cafe bar.Simple . . . and with a bit of help from the family what could possibly go wrong? . .

In "Yeh Can't Stone Women Anymore", Angelina McCarthy battles against all odds to rise above the squalor and brutality of her surroundings. Set in the tumultuous era of 1970s Ireland, this poignant and at times hilarious novel follows the life of Angie, born into a family of drunks, ne'er-do-wells, and headers, as she navigates the bleak terrain of Catholic influence, savage violence, and social upheaval. Along the way, she encounters an array of colourful characters, from a disenfranchised best pal and a parrot named MacBride to school bullies and perverted TDs. But as she struggles to find her place in an increasingly apathetic world, Angie is forced to confront the harsh reality that moral decency may be a distant fantasy.A gritty and strangely heartfelt odyssey of life in old Dublin, "Yeh Can't Stone Women Anymore", catapults readers across the city, from the streets to the terraces, the pubs to the chippers, and the sandflats of Sandymount Strand to the greens of The Pheonix Park and the claustrophobic Mount Pleasant. A Dubliner will know precisely where they are.

This book began with the aim of telling the almost forgotten story of Thomas Hancock, the rubber developer who in his own day was acknowledged as one of the great scientific pioneers of the Industrial Revolution. But as research progressed, it was clear that Thomas and his five brothers, the Hancocks of Marlborough, together constituted a unique family which made a tremendous yet virtually unknown contribution to nineteenth-century science and art. Walter designed and ran the first steam carriages to carry passengers on the common roads of England and so began the age of mechanized transport. Thomas founded the UK rubber industry when he discovered how to vulcanize rubber reliably; his company survived for some 120 years before being taken over. Charles was a well established painter who was also instrumental in the manufacture of gutta percha-coated undersea cables, used by the electric telegraph to begin the global information highway. Other brothers, John, James and William all made significant contributions to the development of Victorian science and culture. This book tells the story of the family and the remarkable people in it, from the Great Fire of Marlborough in 1653 to the present day, using the Hancock family archive of many unpublished and previously unknown documents.