Mark Connelly

`We Can Take It!' shows that the British remember the war in a peculiar way, thanks to a mix of particular images and evidence. Our memory has been shaped by material which is completely removed from historical reality. Meer

This work examines the life and fiction of Charles Jackson, a pioneer gay writer who addressed taboo issues with insight and sensitivity. His stories about "outing", gay-bashing, molestation, and thrill killers are now more relevant in the 21st century than when they first appeared in the 1950s. Meer

This illustrated history analyses celluloid depictions of the IRA from the 1916 Easter Rising to the peace process of the 1990s. Topics include America's role in creating both the IRA and its cinematic image, the organisation's brief association with the Nazis, and critical reception of IRA films in Ireland, Britain and the United States. Meer

A three-time National Book Award for Fiction winner, Saul Bellow is one of the most highly regarded American authors to emerge since World War II. His career produced 14 novels and novellas, two volumes of nonfiction, short story collections, plays and a book of collected letters. Meer