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Carlo Gebler Books

    I, Antigone
    The Dead Eight
    A Good Day for a Dog
    Aesop's Fables
    My Father's Watch
    The Wing Orderly's Tales

    • The Wing Orderly's Tales

      4.3(17)Add rating

      Burning with authenticity, The Wing Orderly’s Tales is about damnation and redemption, humour and darkness, and the slivers of humanity that survive in even the harshest environments.

      The Wing Orderly's Tales

    • My Father's Watch

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      "My Father's Watch" is Patrick Maguire's poignant memoir of his wrongful imprisonment as a teenager in the Maguire Seven case linked to the Guildford pub bombings. Co-authored with Carlo Gébler, it chronicles Patrick's life from childhood through the injustices faced, highlighting the devastating impact on his family and the broader implications of state actions against innocents.

      My Father's Watch

    • Aesop's Fables

      • 304 pages
      • 11 hours of reading
      3.9(6)Add rating

      The greatest collection of fables ever written, updated for our turbulent times.

      Aesop's Fables

    • The Dead Eight

      • 404 pages
      • 15 hours of reading
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      On a wet November morning in 1940 Harry Gleeson discovered the body of Moll McCarthy in a field near the village of New Inn, Co. Tipperary. Moll McCarthy had been shot twice with a shotgun, once in the face - Carlo Gebler's novel is an attempt to explain how the local police fabricated their case and fitted up Harry Gleeson.

      The Dead Eight

    • I, Antigone

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        Major new retelling of the life and pre-life of Oedipus Rex, as written by his daughter Antigone 

      I, Antigone

    • W.9. & Other Lives

      • 270 pages
      • 10 hours of reading

      W9 & Other Lives spans the world-from Cuba to Connemara, from the Mediterranean.The lives of the characters are as broad as the settings. The characters depicted in these stories are lonely, rootless, and quite often uncertain about what they want or how they would get what they want if only they knew what it was... Yet the collection also celebrates how people endure, begin again and refuse to be crushed by chance and circumstance.First published in 1996 and now reprinted with corrections.

      W.9. & Other Lives

    • The Projectionist

      • 392 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      Ernest Gebler, the writer of such international bestsellers as The Plymouth Adventure and Call Me Daddy (which became the film Hoffman), led a remarkable life. In this unauthorized biography, Carlo Gebler, Ernest's estranged son, tells the many stories of his father's life, from Ernest's turbulent personality and strict disciplinary attitude to his staunch socialism and his stormy marriage to Carlo's mother, writer Edna O'Brien, and his final struggle with Alzheimer's disease. In The Projectionist, Carlo Gebler explores and interprets his father's life in the hope of understanding why their relationship was such a difficult and emotional one, and which things from his own upbringing made his father the elusive man he was. *** ..".a candid and insightful account of a remarkable man's life and achievements, his struggles and the consequences his choices would impose upon himself and his family. Exceptionally well written, organized and presented, "The Projectionist" is very highly recommended for community and academic library 20th Century Biography collections in general, and a "must read" for Ernest Gebler fans in particular." -- Midwest Book Review, MBR Bookwatch: February 2016, Micah's Bookshelf Subject: Biography, Literature]

      The Projectionist