Common Things That are Suddenly Special is an inspirational memoir which will motivate readers to see the ordinary things and events in their lives as special and extraordinary. It is what Thomas Larson defines as sudden memoir, which helps the writer to cope, get through, get past. Freud claimed that our memories are stored in our brains as static entities, but recent neurological discoveries show that our memories are in a state of flux and are continually being updated or refashioned. In this inspirational memoir, Brenda Liddy, takes the reader on a journey from the interfaces of north...

Chapter One will cover the period from Petrarch to Milton. Petrarch's greatest gift to posterity was the cycle of poems popularly known as his Canzoniere. The poems are full of humour, and are written in a tightly composed yet complex form, which record their speaker's unrequited obsession with the woman named Laura. In the centuries after it was designed, the "Petrarchan sonnet," inspired the greatest love poets of the English language-from the times of Spenser and Shakespeare to our own. Petrarch's love for Laura de Noves, was the inspiration behind Il Canzoniere. Chapter Two will be based...

This book is about the Good Friday Agreement and indeed the very nature of what an agreement is and how it is arrived at or hammered out. It is a blend of fact and fiction and could be deemed as experimental writing or faction. The Sunningdale Agreement and The Good Friday Agreement are also analysed. The narrator of the book, Patrick Sweeney, was born on the same day as the Good Friday Agreement and like Saleem in Rushdie's Midnight's Children, he feels he is handcuffed to history and that his destiny is bound up with that of his province. The Good Friday Agreement was premised on the...