conor o'brien

“Tim O'Brien is the one American author whose works I look forward to the most. His new novel’s ironic depiction of a post-Iraq war, mid-COVID, and mi

The story of Dusty Springfield from the people who knew her, from her troubled childhood to 60s mod queen and enduring pop music icon.

The undergraduate narrator lives with his uncle in Dublin, drinks too much with his friends and invents stories peopled with hilarious and unlikely ch

A pioneering biography re-evaluating the life and legacy of transcendent musician Karen Carpenter.

Nadat ze wordt gevangen, ontvoerd en uitgehuwelijkt aan een lid van Boko Haram, is de jonge hoofdpersoon van deze roman onderdeel van een gemeente die

The million-copy bestseller, which is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling.

'A spirited attack on Thomas Jefferson . But Conor Cruise O'Brien proposes - in this magisterial 1998 work - that Jefferson's own passions waned in th

Conor Cruise O'Brien's penetrative reading of Albert Camus, Nobel laureate and author of L'Etranger and La Peste, was originally published in 1970.

In Herod: Reflections on Political Violence (first published in 1978) Conor Cruise O'Brien collects a number of essays alongside three short plays tha

Written in 1972 in the wake of Bloody Sunday and direct rule, this book offers a searching analysis of contemporary Irish nationalism: part-memoir, pa

Whereas to O'Brien's mind the 'suspecting glance' was a mark of political maturity that had to be first directed at one's own opinions prior to decryi

Conor Cruise O'Brien's brilliant and hugely controversial 1965 essay on the political convictions of W. O'Brien is, moreover, a critic against all-com

This is a study of the use of the image of the temple in the writings of the most significant theologian of pre-Conquest England, the Venerable Bede.

Arguably Conor Cruise O'Brien's most influential and admired book was this brilliant collection of essays - on history, literature and public affairs

The first literary phase in the brilliant and protean career of Conor Cruise O'Brien was his work as critic for Dublin literary magazine The Bell, whi

This is an examination of Thomas Jefferson as both man and icon through the critical lens of the French Revolution. The book offers a provocative anal

Focuses on the figure of Charles Stewart Parnell, leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party and formidable proponent of Home Rule whose career was abrup

July 1960: The newly independent Congo is hit by the secession of its mineral rich-province Katanga, led by Moïse Tshombe and backed by Belgium and Br