Michael Walsh

Jack Scarlett an X-rated former mercenary needs the adrenalin rush provided by flirting with high-risk encounters; in his case several at a time. Programmed to kill Scarlett is forced into a no-holds-barred conflict in which no prisoners are taken. Determined to stop his high-octane lethal feud is Detective Chief Inspector Eric Jansen. Predictably, the investigation starts in Liverpool city police headquarters. There, the veteran cop finds nailing a jelly to the wall far easier than stopping a merc' on a mission. In the predator's cross-hairs are the most sinister but successful criminals of the maritime city's underworld. 'Mess with the best, die like the rest' appears to be Jack Scarlett's maxim as after being crossed in love and trust he evens the score. The killer question is, can Detective Chief Inspector Eric Jansen stop Jack Scarlett and does he really want to? That is for you to decide.

The mysterious Tiffany is the stunning heiress of a Russian oligarch's Spanish brothel named Sex Fest at Tiffany's. The heart-warming novel is the sequel to The Dovetails Hotel by Michael Walsh. The ultimate light-hearted holiday romance unfolds when Gareth, Leonora and Felicity celebrate their m nage a trois romantic relationship and a successful business finale with an amorous vacation of a lifetime on Spain's Riviera. This is when the wealthy widow of an assassinated Russian tycoon, the enigmatic Tiffany becomes acquainted with the holidaying trio. This engaging romance sparkles with wise-cracking wit and page-marking romps. Follow the trail of love through a captivating series of romantic incidents and events to the story's breath-taking ending that will leave the reader reaching for their Kleenex.

The Dovetails Hotel is a true-to-life account of an engaging relationship relished by the guesthouse's attractive owners and their debonair handyman. With much racy humour, this tell-it-as-it-is story brings to life a covert romantic lifestyle that is far more common than is generally thought. The Dovetails Hotel is owned and managed by comely and captivating divorcees, Leonora and Felicity. After Felicity meets Gareth on a mutually arranged blind date tour of Europe the engaging Jack o' all Maids is subsequently taken on as the hotel's resident repairman. Following a wonderful reception circumstances inspire Gareth to go beyond the call of duty when the trio's mutually agreed state of affairs proves that three is not necessarily a crowd. There follows the de-stigmatisation of a marriage endorsed by heaven. The between-the-sheets story is based on real life and is femininely laced with humour, girl talk, dilemmas, compromises, romance, and at times pathos.

An award-winning author of over 70 book titles, Michael Walsh in the 1990s began work on his epic novel, a task that has taken 30 years to complete. The world traveller and Africa expert knew the plot had to be believable. There was only one way to achieve this; to write a novel that draws on his real-life experiences. In many respects, the book is painfully biographical. The reader will feel it as he or she turns the pages. The novel is based on a mercenary's intended vacation in his native Liverpool. His break goes awry when, during a chance meeting with his ex-fianc he learns that his teenage daughter, whom he has never met, is ensnared by the city's lowlife. It is an epic fail on their part. After being drawn into the 1960s Congo Crisis and Simba Rebellion Fraser McLeod emerged as a lethal humanoid. Further years in Rhodesia's anti-insurgency Bush Wars turned the dog-of-war into a cunning and resourceful predator. Camouflaged by the inner-city's itinerant lowlife his daughter's trail has gone cold. The action heats up when the merciless MacLeod vanishes into the maritime city's social underworld. Those whose trade is debt and death; flesh and illegal substances know how to discourage the prying. However, they are no match for a prowling marauder for whom death is no more to be feared than birth. The soldier of fortune turned arms dealer has a single lead and an unquenchable thirst for vengeful justice. This page-turning nail-biting novel draws heavily on the real-life experiences of the internationally recognised author. Readers Tributes 'Retribution is the greatest movie never made' William Housman. 'An excellent thriller written in the tense style of a John Le Carre spymaster novel' Brian Smyth.

MV Britannic (1929-1960) the last of the White Star Line (1845-1960) vessels had an illustrious pedigree. From a defunct packet company, it became one of the world's most prominent shipping companies providing services between the British Empire and the United States. In a deal made over a billiard table, White Star Line built six Oceanic Liners at Harland and Wolff, Belfast. The shipping company thrived by carrying prospectors to the Australian Gold Rush (1851) during which period the population quadrupled and Klondike Gold Rush (1896). White Star Line often made headlines for the wrong reasons. The company's investments in 1867 broke the lending bank. Sold for 1,000 the company's Albion House head office in Liverpool stands as the company's last monument. Several maritime disasters befell the company of which the worst was the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912. Britannic Waives the Rules recounts the first-hand experiences of the vessel's last crew and voyages before the liner was taken to the breaker's yard.

After training as a Merchant Navy deckhand in 1959 the author Michael Walsh shipped out on the last of the White Star Line's fleet, RMS Britannic. He went on to serve under the ensigns of many shipping companies. These include Cunard White Star, Blue Star, Coast Lines, Elder Dempster, Palm Line, Cayzer Irvine, Union Castle, Canadian Pacific Railways, PSNC, Shell, Ellerman and Papayanni. Others include the Bowring Shipping Company, Royal Mail Lines, etc. Sailing the seven seas and more he lived and worked in the Mediterranean, Middle and Far East, Americas, Australia, and all over Africa. He visited over 65 nations and hundreds of world ports. During his career, he collected images and memoirs to provide us with a truly nostalgic record of a lost world and what was then the greatest merchant fleet in world history. Michael Walsh is an award-winning writer and poet of international note. An echo of times past he recounts real-life experiences in a way that resonates across mankind.

The smash-hit horror anthology based on the hit Shudder TV series is back and CREEPIER than ever! The Creep challenges comics’ biggest names to shock readers like never before! And with a ghoulish roster including Garth Ennis (Preacher, The Boys), Becky Cloonan (Wonder Woman), Michael Walsh (The Silver Coin), Zoe Thorogood (It’s Lonely At the Centre of the Earth), and Nick Dragotta (East of West), readers may die of FRIGHT before finishing this volume! DON’T SAY WE DIDN’T WARN YOU. Collects CREEPSHOW VOL. 2 #1-5

Crime and corruption are rising in Ocean Park, a tired factory town in northern Massachusetts. The police and fire departments are no help-they're staging a work slowdown to protest a pay freeze caused by city budget cuts. Police Detective Matt Conley is disgusted with the dereliction of duty, and when tasked with solving the murder of a young Haitian immigrant, he infuriates the force by teaming with the victim's friend Emmanuel to find the killer. They encounter an enterprising family of Voudou worshipers, a ruthless real estate magnate, and a clever, love-struck arsonist in their search for justice. This Wicked City is a mystery powered by its characters' struggles with love, loyalty, and sacrifice.

This book argues for a durational cinema that is distinct from slow cinema, and outlines the history of its three main waves: the New York avant-garde of the 1960s, the European art cinema in the years after 1968, and the international cinema of gallery spaces as well as film festivals since the 1990s. Figures studied include Andy Warhol, Ken Jacobs, Chantal Akerman, Marguerite Duras, Claude Lanzmann, James Benning, Kevin Jerome Everson, Lav Diaz, and Wang Bing.Durational cinema is predominantly minimal, but has from the beginning also included a more encompassing or encyclopedic kind of filmmaking. Durational cinema is characteristically representational, and converges on certain topics (the Holocaust, deindustrialization, the experience of the working class and other marginalized people), but has no one meaning, signifying differently at different moments and in different hands. Warhol’s durational cinema of subtraction is quite different from Jacobs’s durational cinema of socialdisgust, while Lav Diaz’ durational sublime is quite different from Kevin Jerome Everson’s unblinking studies of African-American working people.

What are we willing to die for? Michael Walsh restores the dignity of lost concepts like honor, duty, sacrifice and patriotism for our unheroic age in Last Stands...

Copper Capers is a humorous account of the experiences, arrests, and the workings of a police department. You can't make this stuff up Each short story chapter is an incident that becomes an antidote to what would have been a very dull and sometimes dangerous shift. Funny things are said and done by people being chased and caught by the police. For example, the man who adamantly declared, "I'm not taking the Polygram test " or the woman who stated that she was a hologram are real experiences. This book was meant to invoke a chuckle from those who can relate to some of the stories. But it also provides a look behind the curtain of how police sustain their sanity under immense pressure.

This book argues for a durational cinema that is distinct from slow cinema, and outlines the history of its three main waves: the New York avant-garde of the 1960s, the European art cinema in the years after 1968, and the international cinema of gallery spaces as well as film festivals since the 1990s. Figures studied include Andy Warhol, Ken Jacobs, Chantal Akerman, Marguerite Duras, Claude Lanzmann, James Benning, Kevin Jerome Everson, Lav Diaz, and Wang Bing.Durational cinema is predominantly minimal, but has from the beginning also included a more encompassing or encyclopedic kind of filmmaking. Durational cinema is characteristically representational, and converges on certain topics (the Holocaust, deindustrialization, the experience of the working class and other marginalized people), but has no one meaning, signifying differently at different moments and in different hands. Warhol’s durational cinema of subtraction is quite different from Jacobs’s durational cinema of socialdisgust, while Lav Diaz’ durational sublime is quite different from Kevin Jerome Everson’s unblinking studies of African-American working people.

2023 Catholic Media Association Honorable Mention, History Pope Francis is the first member of the Society of Jesus, the Catholic Church's largest religious order of men, to be elected to the papacy in its nearly five-hundred-year existence, even though the Society is known for the special vow of obedience to the papacy taken by its leading members. Yet despite that oath of loyalty, Jesuits and popes have frequently been at loggerheads, eventually leading to one pope imprisoning the Jesuit superior general and entirely abolishing the Society. While recounting the more significant events in the history of the Jesuit order, this book pays particular attention to the controversies that have surrounded it, especially those concerning human freedom.

Tells the story of the Jesuits through the exploits of its members over five hundred years, from Ignatius of Loyola to Pope Francis. Drawing on the authorâ??s extensive inside knowledge, this narrative history traces the Societyâ??s founding and growth, its impact on Catholicism worldwide, and its contemporary character and challenges.

After the Oates family moves to Newfoundland, a dark creature kidnaps Beth, the youngest child. To find her, Beth’s siblings Ben and Lynn venture into a mystical world called the Elphyne.The Oates family moves to their ancestral home in Newfoundland following a pair of tragedies.They arrive at their grandmother’s house, where they reunite with their orphaned cousin. Shortly after arriving, Beth, the youngest sibling, is kidnapped by a dark, monstrous creature. Her older siblings set out to find her and bring her back, finding themselves in the Elphyne—a magical world that exists between the ordinary world and the afterlife, where the imagination of children has the power to shape everything around them. The Oates, along with some new allies, must travel through the Elphyne to confront The Dark King, a mysterious being whose arrival has started to corrupt the Elphyne in frightening and unexpected ways. For Ages 10+

An anthology of queer nature poetry spanning three centuries. This anthology amplifies and centers LGBTQIA+ voices and perspectives in a collection of contemporary nature poetry. Showcasing over two hundred queer writers from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, Queer Nature offers a new context for and expands upon the canon of nature poetry while also offering new lenses through which to view queerness and the natural world. In the introduction, editor Michael Walsh writes that the anthology is “concerned with poems that speak to and about nature as the term is applied in everyday language to queer and trans bodies and identities . . . Queer Nature remains interested in elements, flora, fauna, habitats, homes, and natural forces—literary aspects of the work that allow queer and trans people to speak within their specific cultural and literary histories of the abnormal, the animal, the elemental, and the unnatural.” The anthology features poets including Elizabeth Bishop, Richard Blanco, Kay Ryan, Jericho Brown, Allen Ginsberg, Natalie Diaz, and June Jordan, as well as emerging voices such as Jari Bradley, Alicia Mountain, Eric Tran, and Jim Whiteside.

Michael Walsh’s poetry collection Creep Love explores a family contending with a complex and ongoing crisis, the aftermath of which creates a shockwave that reverberates through these poems. Stories, half-truths, and lies combine into disturbing fable: A young pregnant woman flees her abusive boyfriend only to discover with terror that he is focused on her younger sister. When her younger sister later gives birth to her abusive ex’s other sons, the unsettling presence of the child’s father becomes unavoidable, and the family soon forces the first son to become a family secret. We come to find out that the father carries a secret of his own. As tensions rise, attacks within the family escalate and finally culminate in an attempted murder. In Creep Love, Walsh captures the terror of this event, and these poems take us through the surprising outcomes. Near death, rather than floating into light due to hypoxia—a temporary release from the grip of compounding trauma—the speaker sinks into all-encompassing darkness. The anxiety of this moment returns him to his body from the edge of death. These poems give witness to the fallout, demonstrating how love can be charged with something ultimately unknowable.

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