Bøger af Aubrey Malone

Did Elvis Presley play Russian Roulette after his marriage to Priscilla broke up? Did he have guilt-ridden nightmares over the death of his twin brother Jesse? After he became famous did he make secret trips back to Tupelo, the town where he was born, in frantic efforts to recapture the primitive innocence of his youth?Aubrey Malone has edited 'The Lost Diaries of Elvis Presley', a book in which these themes are explored by the man himself in his own words.There have been many books written about Elvis but none, up until now, by him. Is this one a hoax or a precious find that will shatter our preconceptions of The King in a blitzkrieg of riveting revelations? Make your own mind up as you explore the tortured convolutions of Elvis' mind in this cradle-to-crave series of intimate outpourings which give a glimpse into the life of a Rock and Roll King!**DISCLAIMER - This book has not been authorised or endorsed by the Presley family or Elvis Presley Enterprises Inc. It does not claim to be a factual account of Elvis' life, but is a piece of fictional work inspired by factual events**

Have you an inquiring mind? Is the universe a mystery to you? If so, Things I Wonder About is the book for you. Awash with bite-sized chunks of interrogations on everything from relationships to religion, show business to language and much else besides, it manages to both intrigue and infuriate in equal doses with its investigations into the manner in which life seems to conspire to frustrate people at every turn with its illogicality. * Why is there a light in the fridge but not the freezer? * Why do people ask you how you are and not wait for the answer? *How does soap know the one place in the bath to go where you can't find it? * Is the easiest way to come back from L.A. with a small fortune to go there with a large one? * If it wasn't for electricity, would we all be watching television by candlelight? If you've been asking yourself questions like these over the years, now is your chance to see them all together in plain sight in an entertaining trawl through the absurdities of everyday life.

'The music business is a cruel and shallow money ranch, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.' - Hunter S. Thompson It's the negative side that features mainly in this bilious collection of quotes from those involved in the industry up to their teeth. They have a go at themselves and their colleagues in a book that spares nobody's blushes, least of all their own. The chapters are titled after the names of Bob Dylan songs. Dylan himself, who wasn't short of an insult or two himself in his time, also features as a quoter. ('Folk music is just a bunch of fat people.') Music may be a pure art form but musical people, on the evidence of this collection, are not. Whether they're speaking to the press or off the record - as it were - they seem to glory in washing their dirty linen, using the kind of language one doesn't usually hear in Sunday School. Sample at your peril.

A farmer ends up in a wheelchair after a car crash that results in his wife's death. His son's relationship to him is complicated by a woman who comes into his life and lives with him for a time. He has conflicted feelings towards her and towards his sister, a nun who works in a hospital in Nebraska.These are exacerbated when he goes to London to work, discovering new sides to himself in the city's freewheeling ambience.This is a novel about generational guilt and the manner in which tribal loyalties change as traumatic events unfold both at home and abroad.

John Huston's 'eastern Western' signaled the end of the careers of three major Hollywood figures. It was Marilyn Monroe's last completed film. Clark Gable died a fortnight after shooting ended. Montgomery Clift rumbled on for a few years but without doing much of note. It also signaled the end of Monroe's marriage to Arthur Miller. Miller wrote the screenplay as a 'gift' to his troubled wife but their marriage was already on the rocks by the time the cameras started rolling. Matters deteriorated further on the set, culminating in Monroe suffering a nervous breakdown in mid-shoot which led to the set being closed down while she recuperated. Aubrey Malone's book chronicles the background to this iconic film which changed the way people saw the old West. It also chronicles the on-set tensions, the squabbling and feuds and divided loyalties. Huston tried to hold everything together as he struggled with a gambling addiction that was too great a temptation to resist in the casinos of Reno. The dramas that took place behind the scenes were arguably as engrossing as anything that appeared in the film itself. Sample both sets of scenarios in this detailed study of a valentine to a bygone era.

John Huston's 'eastern Western' signaled the end of the careers of three major Hollywood figures. It was Marilyn Monroe's last completed film. Clark Gable died a fortnight after shooting ended. Montgomery Clift rumbled on for a few years but without doing much of note. It also signaled the end of Monroe's marriage to Arthur Miller. Miller wrote the screenplay as a 'gift' to his troubled wife but their marriage was already on the rocks by the time the cameras started rolling. Matters deteriorated further on the set, culminating in Monroe suffering a nervous breakdown in mid-shoot which led to the set being closed down while she recuperated. Aubrey Malone's book chronicles the background to this iconic film which changed the way people saw the old West. It also chronicles the on-set tensions, the squabbling and feuds and divided loyalties. Huston tried to hold everything together as he struggled with a gambling addiction that was too great a temptation to resist in the casinos of Reno. The dramas that took place behind the scenes were arguably as engrossing as anything that appeared in the film itself. Sample both sets of scenarios in this detailed study of a valentine to a bygone era.

From her first appearances on the stage and screen, Maureen O'Hara (b. 1920) commanded attention with her striking beauty, radiant red hair, and impassioned portrayals of spirited heroines. Whether she was being rescued from the gallows by Charles Laughton ( The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1939), falling in love with Walter Pidgeon against a coal-blackened sky ( How Green Was My Valley, 1941), learning to believe in miracles with Natalie Wood ( Miracle on 34th Street, 1947), or matching wits with John Wayne ( The Quiet Man, 1952), she charmed audiences with her powerful presence and easy confidence. Maureen O'Hara is the first book-length biography of the screen legend hailed as the "e;Queen of Technicolor."e; Following the star from her childhood in Dublin to the height of fame in Hollywood, film critic Aubrey Malone draws on new information from the Irish Film Institute, production notes from films, and details from historical film journals, newspapers, and fan magazines. Malone also examines the actress's friendship with frequent costar John Wayne and her relationship with director John Ford, and he addresses the hotly debated question of whether the screen siren was a feminist or antifeminist figure.Though she was an icon of cinema's golden age, O'Hara's penchant for privacy and habit of making public statements that contradicted her personal choices have made her an enigma. This breakthrough biography offers the first look at the woman behind the larger-than-life persona, sorting through the myths to present a balanced assessment of one of the greatest stars of the silver screen.

This bumper collection of Irish humour covers topics such as Absenteeism and Zoos and everything in between. It would be disappointing should such a large collection not include the best of famous Irish wits such as Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw, but the emphasis is very much on contemporary Irish humour from the likes of Tommy Tiernan, Dylan Moran, Ardal O'Hanlon and Dara O'Briain, to name just a few. Lunatic, iconoclastic and, as Spike Milligan might have put it, involving 'sideways thinking', this is Irish humour at its very best.

Brian Kilcoyne finds it difficult to cope with the death of his mother. His father is an alcoholic and he doesn't get on with his brother. He leaves his farm in Loughrea to go to college in Dublin, splitting up with his childhood sweetheart as he does so. They leave their relationship open with the possibility of continuing it in the future. He travels to Europe and America while trying to decide on his future. Romance and diaspora create conflicts in him before he returns to a changed Ireland What's he going to do with his future? Can he re-kindle his relationship with his girlfriend? Is his father going to re-marry? Will small-town mentalities force him to leave Galway again?

Aubrey Malone was born in Ballina and lived there until his father, the well-known solicitor Hugh Dillon-Malone, retired in 1969 and the family moved to Dublin. Ballina Stories and Poems is a mixture of fact and fiction in which he reminisces on the people and places he encountered during his formative years.

Charles Bukowski is one of the most widely read authors in the world in everywhere from prisons to universities to drying-out clinics. Since his death in 1994 there's been a flood of books by and about him, culminating in a 2017 novel that deals with a relationship he might have had with, of all people, Jane Austen. Aubrey Malone joins the threads on all of these in his up-to-the-minute biography. As well as tackling all the well-known aspects of Bukowski's life - the horrible childhood, the drinking, the horses, the women, the early stabs at writing for the 'litmags' before he became famous - he also introduces unusual issues like whether Bukowski might have married his first love Jane Cooney Baker - an FBI file suggests he did - or whether his iconic address at 1524 De Longpre Avenue should be preserved against allegations that he was a Nazi sympathizer. Both on and off the page Bukowski lived life with his guns blazing. One of the last of the two-fisted drinkers, he defied all the laws of nature by living to the - for him - ripe old age of 73, thanks largely to the tender mercies of John Martin, the man who enabled him to leave his job at the post office and write full time for Black Sparrow Press. An unlikely Casanova, the book also examines the convoluted trajectories of Bukowski's love life, especially in the seventies when he oscillated between women like Linda King and 'Cupcakes' Brandes before finding an unlikely stability in the arms of another Linda in the Los Angeles suburb of San Pedro. He was 'the longest shot that ever came home' and Bukowski captures him in all his turbulent moods. Aubrey Malone has also written biographies of Ernest Hemingway, Marlon Brando, Elvis Presley, Tony Curtis and Maureen O'Hara.

Tired of receiving the same old advice from everyone you know? Anxious to change yourself in ways that will surprise even yourself? If so, you need to sample this riveting collection of quotes. It offers you a bevy of helpful suggestions, like... Don't moon a werewolf, Don't play leapfrog with a unicorn, and, even more importantly, Never trust anyone who, if he's alone in a room with a tea cosy, doesn't try it on. The Best Advice You'll Ever Get is a book which will change your life, moving it forward in exciting and challenging new directions. Or maybe not. Aubrey Malone has compiled a number of quotation anthologies. He would advise you to buy this one.

Many wise words are spoken in jest but many more stupid ones are said in earnest, as this book demonstrates. How about this comment on a football match from Cristiano Ronaldo, for instance: 'The reason we lost is because we didn't win.' Or Ian Wright's, 'It took a lot of bottle for Tony Adams to admit he was an alcoholic.' Or Dave Woods' remark, 'The silence is getting louder.' It makes you think, doesn't it? There are many others: 'Abstinence is the thin end of the pledge.' 'A comedian who repeats old gags is a clear case of the tale dogging the wag.' 'It is kisstomary to cuss the bride.' 'Cannabalise legalis.' A cavalcade of equally regrettable utterances form the basis of this melange of spoonerisms and spectacular ignorance. Aubrey Malone has written a bumber of nooks.

Presents the first full-scale biography of Sidney Lumet, a man generally regarded as one of the most affable directors of his time. Using the oral testimonies of those who worked with him both behind and in front of the camera, this book explores Lumet's personality and working methods.

Writers and alcohol have long been associated - for some, the association becomes unmanageable. Drawing on rare sources, this collection of brief biographies traces the lives of 13 well known literary drinkers, examining how their relationship with alcohol developed and how it affected their work, for better or worse.

The hilarious Little Book of Dog Quotes complies hundred of quotes from actors, politicians, philosophers in celebration of their love for man's best friend. This book will resonate with everyone and anyone who has fallen for a pair of puppy-dog eyes or an outstretched paw.

Beginning with silent film vamp Theda Bara and continuing with icons like Greta Garbo, Marilyn Monroe and Raquel Welch, this study of film industry misogyny describes how female stars were maltreated by a sexist studio system - until women like Katharine Hepburn and Bette Davis fought for parity.

In chapters entitled 'The Hell of Healthy Food','Why you Shouldn't Diet', 'The Light-hearted Side of Weight', 'Daft Diets', and 'Food Philosophy', Aubrey Malone has collected a hilarious compendium of witticisms on the greatness of grub, from thought-provoking reflections to laugh-out-loud observations.

This handy pocket-sized book is a must-have for any transport enthusiast or seasoned traveller

This book offers a history of films with Biblical, spiritual, and supernatural themes.