Follow up to the best-selling 'Arthur Quinn and the World Serpent'. Life is finally back to normal for Arthur Quinn. Three months ago, he and his friends put their lives at risk to stop the trickster
It's Belfast, 1977. The King is dead and a 14-year-old boy wearing Denim aftershave has just been appointed breadboy in the last Ormo Mini-Shop in the world, delivering bread to the residents of the U
A young man flees Athens, trying to escape from drink and a number of failed relationships moving from Paros and Munich to London and a mountain village in central Greece, he meets a young woman and i
In lyric poems, satires, and flash fictions, Eamonn Wall engages robustly and ironically with the contemporary American and Irish worlds. He explores the lives of individuals hidden from society's gaz
"To read 'The Juno charm' is to encounter a writer who is modern, white, female and Irish, whose work both charms and challenges. Nuala Nai Chonchauir reveals herself yet again as a witty and energeti
New and Selected Poems. In 'Whatever Sends the Music into Time', Leah Fritz questions everything - her own life, human nature, politics, even the universe - with humour, fearlessness and love. This N
The great storm that was Hurricane Katrina brought poet Gordon Walmsley back to New Orleans. Here he explores the place of birth and his childhood, delving into its complexities, and the realities of
Poetry. Winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. POTSCRUBBER LULLABIES aren't the kind that will put you to sleep. The poems in this first collection dance, dart, and double-cross, and are deadly ser
Colm Keegan's poetry is a soulful yet visceral evocation of what it is to live in a Dublin rarely seen in its un-exaggerated form in the literary world. A life and a mode of living and seeing that ref
Geoff Hill and Colin O'Carroll take on Australia's legendary Highway 1 on their trusty Triumph motorbikes, circumnavigating the country from Adelaide to Adelaide.
Presents a mythic tale of the legendary warrior, Cu Chaulainn, and his battle against the invading army of Connacht over the fabled Brown Bull of Cooley.
Gregory Norminton transforms the aphorism into something more accessible and personal. Ultimately he uses aphorisms to question everything - including the aphorism itself: 'Incessantly we ask the mean
After barely surviving a shooting at the high school where she is a special education teacher, Jessie Conway becomes a target for the media and a serial killer.
A touching and intimate autobiography, this account recalls the author’s remarkable childhood friendship with Anne Frank while attending a special school for Jewish children in Amsterdam during the la
Relates in rhyme how a medieval monk used his cat as a model for creating some of the capital letters in that famous and beautiful illuminated manuscript, the Book of Kells.
Stories from long, long ago, part of an ancient oral tradition, handed down from generation to generation and written down by the Christian monks of medieval Ireland. In a handy pocket format.
YouTube sensation John D. Ruddy brings history to life with clarity and hilarity in videos that have amassed millions of views around the world. Here, his viral online hit, Manny Man, turns Ireland's
Recounts the life of the sixteenth-century Irish pirate Grace O'Malley, from her birth into a west coast seafaring clan, through her adventurous career and meeting with Queen Elizabeth, to her death i
Composed of 48 tales of people who once walked the streets of Dublin, this book includes the stories of a captured WWII German spy and Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, whose funeral greatly spurred the Irish
The son of Llywelyn the First and uncle of Llywelyn the Second, Dafydd is treated as a placeholder in the royal lineage of Gwynedd when mentioned at all. But Welsh historian Griffiths puts the spotlig
What happens when a person returns, unrecognized, to place and situation they left long ago? Will some see a ghost, or perhaps a threat? Can the past be altered, or the future changed? When Prince Har
