Mike Heffernan

Defeat from the Jaws of Victory: Inside Kinnock's Labour Party

“I’m in it to win. That’s my attitude to life and to politics.”—Neil Kinnock, December 1989Defeat from the Jaws of Victory takes the reader behind closed doors to witness Kinnock’s Labour hierarchy in action—fixing votes, stage-managing meetings, dispensing patronage to favourites and settling score...

Exposed!

"EXPOSED! shines a harsh light on the myriad horrors of modern society and reports back from the fearful frontlines with wicked wit and paranoid power. From the murky waters of New Orleans to the scarred psyches of our own image-obsessed existence, EXPOSED! is the last headline we get to read before...

Rig: An Oral History of the Ocean Ranger Disaster Paperback - August 30, 2009

Other Side of Midnight, The: Taxi Cab Stories

The first St. John’s taxi stand started up in the early-20th Century and greatly expanded prior to the Second World War. There are now almost four hundred taxis operating within the city limits. The Other Side of Midnight: Taxi Cab Stories is not a traditional history of taxi cabs in St. John’s. It ...

Hard Ol' Spot

Following in the tradition of Edgar Allan Poe and Oscar Wilde, St. John’s author Mike Heffernan has created an anthology of uniquely east-coast fiction: twisted, macabre, eery and compelling. The fourteen stories include work by such award-winning writers as Michael Crummey, Ramona Dearing, Jo-Anne ...

A Dark and Deadly Valley

The ghosts of lonesome British soldiers wander the rubble-strewn beach of Dunkirk. A black wave grows to devour a Japanese fleet. Only divine intervention can save the citizens of a charred Dresden. Something dark prowls the bowels of the Fuhrer's bunker. Radioactive mutants hunt fresh flesh through...

Rig: An Oral History of the Ocean Ranger Disaster

In the early hours of February 15, 1982, tragedy struck the Ocean Ranger oil rig when it capsized and sank in a severe weather storm 170 nautical miles east of St. John’s, Newfoundland. All of the eighty-four crewmen perished, including fifty-six men from the province. This was Canada’s greatest mar...

The Other Side of Midnight: Taxi Cab Stories

The first St. John’s taxi stand started up in the early-20th Century and greatly expanded prior to the Second World War. There are now almost four hundred taxis operating within the city limits. The Other Side of Midnight: Taxi Cab Stories is not a traditional history of taxi cabs in St. John’s. It ...