Joseph O'Connor

From inside the Vatican, Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty makes a daring attempt to smuggle thousands of innocents out of Nazi-occupied Rome in this World War II "literary thriller of the highest order" (The Guardian), the first in a series by New York Times bestselling author, Joseph O'Connor. September 1943: German forces have Rome under their control. SS Commander Paul Hauptmann rules over the Eternal City with vicious efficiency. The war's outcome is far from certain. Diplomats, refugees, Jews, and escaped Allied prisoners flee for protection into Vatican City, a neutral, independent state nestled in the city of Rome. A small band of unlikely friends led by a courageous Irish priest is drawn into deadly battle of wits with Hauptmann and his soldiers. Suspenseful, beautifully written, and inspired by a true story, My Father's House tells an unforgettable story of love, faith, sacrifice, and courage.*The second book in the Rome Escape Line Trilogy, The Ghosts of Rome, is available now.*

Allting vi gör och upplever styrs genom vår hjärna. I boken ? Coaching the Brain: Praktiska tillämpningar av Neurovetenskaper I Coaching? svarar de världsberömda coacherna och författarna Joseph O´Connor och Andrea Lages på frågan: ? Hur kan vi använda vår kunskap om hjärnan för att hjälpa oss själva och andra att lära, förändras och utvecklas?. Denna bok vill visa hur vi kan tillämpa kunskaper och insikter från den senaste neurovetenskapliga forskningen för personlig utveckling, Coaching och Kognitiv terapi. Boken börjar med en praktisk och lättillgänglig översikt av hur hjärnan arbetar tillsammans med förklaringar av dess plasticitet t.ex. hur våra tankar, känslor och handlingar förändrar hjärnan. Genom att förstå den neurovetenskapliga delen av mål och mentala modeller så kan vi arbeta med dessa på ett bättre sätt. På samma sätt kan förståelsen av emotioner och den emotionella grunden till värderingar leda fram till ökad lycka och välbefinnande. Inte minst viktigt är att insikten i neurovetenskapen kan belysa både hur vi lär och hur vi styrs av förväntningar. Boken utforskar också neurovetenskapen bakom både topp-prestationer och Ledarskap de faktorer som behövs för att skapa en bättre framtid. Med sina insiktsfulla och klarläggande framställningar tillsammans med mängden av förslag på praktiska tillämpningar är boken ett måste inte bara för coacher utan för alla som vill arbeta för förändring och utveckling med sig själv och andra.

1878: The Lyceum Theatre, London. Three extraordinary people begin their life together, a life that will be full of drama, transformation, passionate and painful devotion to art and to one another. Henry Irving, the Chief, is the volcanic leading man and impresario; Ellen Terry is the most lauded and desired actress of her generation, outspoken and generous of heart; and ever following along behind them in the shadows is the unremarkable theatre manager, Bram Stoker. Fresh from life in Dublin as a clerk, Bram may seem the least colourful of the trio but he is wrestling with dark demons in a new city, in a new marriage, and with his own literary aspirations. As he walks the London streets at night, streets haunted by the Ripper and the gossip which swirls around his friend Oscar Wilde, he finds new inspiration. But the Chief is determined that nothing will get in the way of his manager's devotion to the Lyceum and to himself. And both men are enchanted by the beauty and boldness of the elusive Ellen. This exceptional novel explores the complexities of love that stands dangerously outside social convention, the restlessness of creativity, and the experiences that led to Dracula, the most iconic supernatural tale of all time.

SHORTLISTED 2019 COSTA BOOK OF THE YEARIrish Book Awards NOVEL OF THE YEARShadowplay by New York Times best-selling author, Joseph O'Connor, is set during the golden age of West End theater in a London shaken by the crimes of Jack the Ripper. Henry Irving is Victorian London's most celebrated actor and theater impresario. He has introduced groundbreaking ideas to the theater, bringing to the stage performances that are spectacular, shocking, and always entertaining. When Irving decides to open his own London theater with the goal of making it the greatest playhouse on earth, he hires a young Dublin clerk harboring literary ambitions by the name of Bram Stoker to manage it. As Irving's theater grows in reputation and financial solvency, he lures to his company of mummers the century's most beloved actress, the dazzlingly talented leading lady Ellen Terry, who nightly casts a spell not only on her audiences but also on Stoker and Irving both. Bram Stoker's extraordinary experiences at the Lyceum Theatre, his early morning walks on the streets of a London terrorized by a serial killer, his long, tempestuous relationship with Irving, and the closeness he finds with Ellen Terry, inspire him to write DRACULA, the most iconic and best-selling supernatural tale ever published. A magnificent portrait both of lamp-lit London and of lives and loves enacted on the stage, Shadowplay's rich prose, incomparable storytelling, and vivid characters will linger in readers' hearts and minds for many years. Joseph O'Connor's Star of the Sea was an international bestseller, a New York Times, Economist Notable Book of the Year, and a Sunday Times Number 1 bestseller. It won France's Prix Millepages, Italy's Premio Acerbi, the Irish Post Award for Fiction, the Nielsen Bookscan Golden Book Award, an American Library Association Award, the Hennessy/Sunday Tribune Hall of Fame Award, and the Prix Litteraire Zepter for European Novel of the Year. He is the author of nine novels and is the Inaugural Frank McCourt Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Limerick. Shadowplay was named Novel of the Year at the 2019 Irish Book Awards and was a finalist for the prestigious Costa Book Award." Funny, smart, tender, wise."--Colum McCann, author of Let the Great World Spin"A marvelous novel . . . Magnificent."--Suzie Feay, Financial Times

**Vinnare av Irish Post Easons Novel of the Year 2019**”En oerhört underhållande bok om vänskap och kärlek ur alla aspekter, men den är också på ett rörande och ibland överraskande sätt en berättelse om alltings obeständighet, om förlust och verklig lojalitet.” The Guardian”Bländande … elegansen och subtiliteten i hans prosa är perfekt anpassad för att gestalta den njutning och kreativa uppfinningsrikedom som var den viktorianska eran, och som han s roman på ett så fantastiskt sätt väcker till liv.” Sunday Times”En sinnrik roman … O’Connors bok är enormt imponerande och helt oförglömlig.” Sunday MirrorAbraham var en ivrig teaterbesökare, recensent, en försynt beundrare från Dublin och blivande författare. Henry var en av den tidens stora aktörer, en diabolisk uppenbarelse med stora gester och livsfarlig inlevelse. Ellen var kanske den mest sammansatta konstnären av de tre, hon spelade Ofelia, lady Macbeth, Margareta i Faust och Desdemona i Othello, och trollband sin samtid. Abraham som hette Stoker i efternamn, och blev mer känd under smeknamnet Bram, gick till historien med sin femte roman Dracula. Henry hette Irving i efternamn och gick till historien i största allmänhet, kanske mest för att ha inspirerat till porträttet av den blodtörstige greven från Transsylvanien. Ellen Terry hänförde Oscar Wilde och målaren Sargent, och lever vidare både i dikt, bild och minne än i dag. De tre utgjorde en dynamisk trio som skådespelare (Irving och Terry), teaterdirektör (Irving) och ekonomichef (Stoker) på Lyceum Theatre i London, en epok som lyser än i dag. I Joseph O’Connors roman Skuggspel spelas denna dynamik upp, skuggsidorna och laddningarna mellan dessa tre, mot en fond av det viktorianska Londons sexualpanik och nattliga mord. Framför allt är det en roman om det kreativa sinnet och om hur erfarenhet, intryck och fantasi kan ingå de mest märkvärdiga legeringar, hur en excentrisk teaterdirektör kan transformeras in i litteraturen som den odödlige odöde framför andra, greve Dracula." Skuggspel är rolig, smart, ömsint, klock och skriven med millimeterprecision." Colum McCann"Joseph O'Connor är den enda författare jag vet som kan få en att skratta och gråta i samma mening." Lawrence Norfolk"Underbar. Så vackert skriven." Sir Derek Jacobi

A powerful and deeply moving masterpiece about love, partings and reconciliation from the international bestselling author of Star of the Sea 'A virtuoso display of literary talent...brimming with sympathy and skill' Irish TimesDublin, 1907.

'Broad and ambitious...beautifully written...at the heart of O'Connor's masterful epic lies a universal hope for something better' ObserverDiscover the powerful sequel to international bestseller Star of the Sea1865.

* As heard on BBC Radio 4 *Rediscover Joseph O'Connor's monumental #1 international bestseller. In the bitter winter of 1847, from an Ireland torn by injustice and natural disaster, the Star of the Sea sets sail for New York.

Discover the thrilling life of Bram Stoker, the man who created Dracula, in this immersive historical novel. **Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award **1878: The Lyceum Theatre, London.

Everything we do, and sense, happens through our brain. In Coaching the Brain: Practical Applications of Neuroscience to Coaching, highly experienced coaches Joseph O’Connor and Andrea Lages ask and answer the question: ‘How can we use our knowledge of the brain to help ourselves and others to learn, change, and develop?’. This book will show you how to apply insights from the latest neuroscience research in a practical way, in the fields of personal development, coaching and cognitive therapy. Accessible and practical, it begins with an overview of how the brain works along with an explanation of how our brain changes due to our actions and thoughts, illuminating how these habits can be changed through neuroplasticity. Understanding the neuroscience of goals and mental models helps us to work with and change them, and clarity about emotions and the emotional basis of values can help achieve happiness. Most importantly, neuroscience illuminates how we learn, as well as the power of expectations. The book also explores the key lessons we can take from neuroscience for high performance and leadership. Eminently accessible, this book gives you new tools to help yourself and others create better futures. As a whole, the book will provide you with a new respect for the depth and complexity of your thinking and emotions. Coaching the Brain: Practical Applications of Neuroscience to Coaching, with its clarity and practical application, will be essential reading for coaches in practice and in training, as well as leaders, coach supervisors and HR and L&D professionals, and will be a key text for academics and students of coaching and coaching psychology.

Everything we do, and sense, happens through our brain. In Coaching the Brain: Practical Applications of Neuroscience to Coaching, highly experienced coaches Joseph O’Connor and Andrea Lages ask and answer the question: ‘How can we use our knowledge of the brain to help ourselves and others to learn, change, and develop?’. This book will show you how to apply insights from the latest neuroscience research in a practical way, in the fields of personal development, coaching and cognitive therapy. Accessible and practical, it begins with an overview of how the brain works along with an explanation of how our brain changes due to our actions and thoughts, illuminating how these habits can be changed through neuroplasticity. Understanding the neuroscience of goals and mental models helps us to work with and change them, and clarity about emotions and the emotional basis of values can help achieve happiness. Most importantly, neuroscience illuminates how we learn, as well as the power of expectations. The book also explores the key lessons we can take from neuroscience for high performance and leadership. Eminently accessible, this book gives you new tools to help yourself and others create better futures. As a whole, the book will provide you with a new respect for the depth and complexity of your thinking and emotions. Coaching the Brain: Practical Applications of Neuroscience to Coaching, with its clarity and practical application, will be essential reading for coaches in practice and in training, as well as leaders, coach supervisors and HR and L&D professionals, and will be a key text for academics and students of coaching and coaching psychology.

Luton, Robbie Goulding, an Irish-born teenager, meets the elusive Fran Mulvey, an orphaned Vietnamese refugee. Together they form a band. Joined by cellist Sarah-Therese Sherlock and her twin brother Sean on drums, The Ships in the Night set out to chase fame. But the story of this makeshift family is haunted by ghosts from the past.

Ranging from urgently contemporary London and Dublin to New York's Lower East Side in the nineteenth century, from dark comedy to poignancy, from the wryly provocative to the quietly beautiful, this title includes stories that offer a gathering of dreamers and lost souls who contend with the confusions of living.

Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) teaches how to model excellence to achieve excellence in everything you do. This introductory guide explains the principles of NLP and how to use these principles in your life – personally, spiritually and professionally. By focusing on the fundamental presuppositions of NLP, this clear and concise book gets right to its core. It explains key concepts such as building rapport, modelling, anchoring and uncovering your preferred learning style. It shows how to be in tune with your patterns of behaviour and language and those of the people around you, and how to use this knowledge to reach your goals. From building confidence, to beating depression, to career development, the uses of NLP are innumerable. This book is an ideal starting point for anyone interested in learning the life-changing techniques of NLP.

"Ghost Light is Joseph] O'Connor's vivid and sometimes visionary reimagining of the love affair between Molly Allgood and the Irish dramatist John Millington Synge. . . . O'Connor rides the wave of Irish eloquence . . . a jagged lyricism redolent of Seamus Heaney." --The New York Times Book ReviewDublin. 1907. Outspoken and flirtatious, Molly Allgood is a Catholic girl from the slums of Dublin, dreaming of stardom as an actress in America. Her lover, the leading playwright John Synge, is a troubled genius, whose life is hampered by convention and by the austere and God-fearing mother with whom he lives. Their affair, sternly opposed by friends and family, is quarrelsome, affectionate and tender. Many years later, Molly, now a poverty-stricken old woman, makes her way through London's bomb-scarred city streets, alone but for a snowdrift of memories. As she struggles to navigate the present, Molly's past threatens to consumer her.

Part of the Open Door series of short books for emerging readers. From his recollections of a suburban Irish childhood to his widely acclaimed radio diaries for RTÉ’s Drivetime, award-winning novelist Joseph O’Connor tells tales that both parody and illuminate the strange times in which we live. In this shorter selection of classic journalism and non-fiction, Joseph O’Connor displays an eye for the absurd, a lightness of touch and a joyous comic spirit. From losing his heart at a flirting class in Manhattan, to becoming a father, The Shorter Irish Male is a suitcase stuffed with self-mockeries and belly laughs.

True Believers introduces us to a world of characters stunning in their variety. Here are sad-hearted priests, old friends, young lovers, rockers and rebels. Here are runaway husbands and runaway wives. Here are jokers and fanatics, punks and poets, thinkers and drinkers, chancers and killers. Here are the true believers, all clinging desperately to some kind of faith in a mutable and dangerous world.