Poet, travel writer, teacher, film-extra in Laurence Olivier's Hamlet, quiz-show panellist -Kildare Dobbs has played many parts, been many places, met... Læs mere
In south Kilkenny, where Duiske stream joins the river Barrow at Graiguenamanagh, lies one of Ireland's many Norman-Cistercian abbeys. Song of Duiske is a novella set amongst this monastic community in the year 1304, a century after the abbey's foundation.
The Sway of Winter tells the story of Birgit, a young Scandinavian woman who has moved to recover from a suffocating relationship. She visits Africa in a quest to decide her future in working among the deprived, but finds there only a mirror of an inner poverty.
In Winter Bayou, Grace journeys through the past, from the heady rush of teenage love to a marriage 'ripped apart too ... shredded and pushed beyond our boundaries' - her meditations forming a perfectly poised novella as lyrically tender as it is viscerally sensuous.
PEGGY O’BRIEN grew up in western Massachusetts, where she now lives with her husband. She teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Set in post-Flight of the Earls, pre-Cromwellian Ireland of 1641, this novel tells the gripping story of a struggle between two opposing cultures that set the scene for the rebellion sealing the fate of Gaelic Ireland.
Words, Words, Words probes lexicography, dialect, sexual practices, sport and social history to create a humorous and informative guide to... Læs mere
An exploration of urban wildlife published by the Lilliput Press.
The Strangled Impulse follows a young curate uprooted from a comfortable parish to serve the pastoral needs of working-class North Dublin. Set against the backdrop of the Church's... Læs mere
The Cruelty Men tells an unsentimental tale of survival in a country proclaimed as independent but subjugated by silence
The author's keen eye and clear style lends this portrayal of an individual and a generation the truth and elegance of an enduring work of art.
The Dubliner Diaries is an awkward history of the Celtic Tiger by a man who tried to capture it, and ended up being mauled.