Michael O'Leary

Dreamlander Express

1 - Straight (Mar-2012)
2 - Unlevel Crossings (Mar-2012)
3 - Magic Alex's Revenge (Mar-2012)

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  Hampshire and Isle of Wight Folk Tales
  

  • Jan-2012
  • / Fantasy
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  Mike O’Leary is a professional storyteller who has constantly been asked if he has written any of his stories down. Well, now he has, and here they are! These beautifully told folk tales represent the diversity of the area -- from densely populated...

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  The Irish Annals of New Zealand
  

  • Mar-2012
  • / Historical
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  The Irish Annals of New Zealand is essentially a Joycean tour-de-force through New Zealand's history from the Irish rather than the usual English point of view. However, as well as historical facts the novel incorporates many other linguistic and lan...

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  Out of It
  

  • Mar-2012
  • / General Fiction
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  First published in 1987 this novel has acquired something of a cult status among both cricket fans and those interested in experimental prose and bohemian lifestyles. It is set in Auckland in the 1980s and is a mixture of stream of conscious int...

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  Magic Alex's Revenge
  

  • Mar-2012
  • / Historical
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  Dreamlander Express - 3
  

  Magic Alec's Revenge is the third novel in Michael O'Leary's trilogy Dreamlander Express. It concerns the main character, Magic Alex, who was part of The Beatles' entourage in the late 1960s. Exposed as a charlatan rather than the electronic 'wizard'...

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  Straight
  

  • Mar-2012
  • / Romantic Suspense
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  Dreamlander Express - 1
  

  Straight is the first in Michael O'Leary's trilogy, Dreamlander Express. It is the story of Paul Calvert who returns to his hometown, Auckland, after being away in 'dreamland' for several years. He discovers that all the things he knew about the fami...

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  Unlevel Crossings
  

  • Mar-2012
  • / Contemporary Romance
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  Dreamlander Express - 2
  

  Michael O'Leary's Dreamlander Express trilogy. It tells the story of factory worker Patrick Mika Fitzgerald, who after several years of working at the same job and looking after his ailing mother, is freed from these ties by death and redundancy. He ...

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  Neither Here Nor There
  

  • May-2015
  • / General Fiction
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  Neither Here Nor There is an intriguing story about two bohemian down and outs who are caught in an existential dilemma: They don't know which city they live in, Auckland or Dunedin. This Beckettian tale takes the reader on a dream/reality tour of th...

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  Hampshire and Isle of Wight Ghost Tales
  

  • Jul-2016
  • / Horror
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  The stories in this haunting collection are as ancient and recent, powerful and fantastical, real and imaginary, as the ghosts they feature. Here you will find chilling tales of a pond that fills with blood on Lammas Eve; a plague coach careening dow...

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  Hampshire Folk Tales for Children
  

  • Sep-2016
  • / General Fiction
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  verbal snapshots
  

  • Jun-2018
  • / General Fiction
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  Verbal snapshots volume 1 begins the saga of a life. Personal reflections, stories and flights of fancy that cover childhood escapades, coming of age, teenage angst, 20 / 30 something madness, fatherhood, divorce, single parenthood, remarriage, teach...

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  Apocrypha Scripta
  

  • Jun-2023
  • / Literary
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  During the writing of his autobiography, Die Bibel (published in 2016 by Steele/Roberts), Michael O'Leary began a parallel fictional autobiography which he conceived as an 'apocrypha' of additional aspects to his intellectual & emotional life, combin...

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