As it is with postmen, so it is with the uniformed gateline staff on the London Underground. Invisible to most busy commuters, unless as an object of complaint or vilification, the figure in the glass box is barely credited by passengers with having any interior life at all.   Everything changes with the publication of former Customer Service Assistant Ed O’Regan’s Dante-esque memoir of over 13 years’ service in the living hell of London’s Tube network, where ghouls stalk the tunnels, passengers sometimes die, Management morph into Dad’s Army’s Captain Mainwaring and the poor bloody infantry on the front line have somehow to cope with whatever is thrown at them. Some are born mad, some achieve madness and some have madness thrust upon them.   A former theatre worker and Further Education lecturer, Ed’s unlikely decision to toil beneath the city streets is prompted by an I Ching reading after experiencing a series of mid-life crises, and his account of an inglorious ‘career’ is peppered with references as diverse as Hieronymus Bosch and the Travelling Wilburys, William Hogarth and The Rolling Stones. As the wallpaper inside CSA O’Regan’s skull unfolds, no reader of ‘The Well of Shadows’ will ever see the man in the glass box in quite the same light again.   “…highly enjoyable reading.”  (The London Magazine)   “We read it with enthusiasm and were impressed by its originality and engaging style.”  (The Susijn Agency)

The Well of Shadows: Underground London: Thirteen Years in the Belly of the Beast

Engineering & Transportation

O'Regan, Ed

Transportation

AS-Publishing

The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.(Horace Walpole)Russia. Winter. 1915. A dynasty totters and the fields of Europe are fed with the blood of a generation. Aristocratic certainties reel before the angry and implacable masses. Into the literary salons of Petrograd staggers a bedraggled figure in an army greatcoat: Signalman Velemir Khlebnikov, deserter, mathematician, poet, linguist, Grand Wizard of Russian Futurism and self-proclaimed President of the Globe. Not for Khlebnikov the aggressive polemical certainties of fellow poet Vladimir Mayakovsky's bear-like embrace of the Bolshevik revolution, nor his friend's desperate romantic entanglement in the marriage of a ballerina and a lawyer. Instead, his formidably mysterious mind is grappling with the healing of a pain-wracked cosmos. He has formulated a numerological theory whose application could end forever the long blood-glut of history. And he has devised a universal language whose use could render the failures of communication he perceives both in his friends and the world at large as obsolete as his army-issue signal flags. Time bends as often as your mind in this anarchic, cosmological comedy. The King of the Future makes history, and synchronicity roles o.k."All will be forgotten by mankind After it arrives in the land of Futurism; But, I, for my courage Will be honoured with a bizarre monument..." (Khlebnikov, May 1914)"...unusual, grim, absurd...often funny...A CLOUD IN TROUSERS exposes a deeply confused country seeking a viable political agenda..." (James Christopher, TIME OUT.)

A Cloud in Trousers: A tragicomedy of Russian Futurism

Biographies & Memoirs

The Yellow House at Arles

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