Poetry. "In BIG-EYED AFRAID, a first book of genuine originality, Erica Dawson turns the mirror held up to nature on herself. Both humorous and heart-wrenching, Dawson balances formal adroitness with
The Envoy, Edward Wilson's second novel, will prove familiar territory for fans of A River in May. The setting is 1950s London, at the height of the Cold War. Kit Fournier is ostensibly a senior diplo
A collection of poems where art, landscape and memory are interwoven. It features reflections that echo the cubistic manner of the painting and allow us to enter the shifting surfaces of Dora Maar's m
Aims to share with readers the basic tools, techniques and principles of how to create and maintain a beautiful garden through Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. This book is separated into horticultu
Poems questioning the nature of perceptions and the limits of philosophical enquiry feature Peter Henry Lepus, a rabbit who searches the world for philosophers, conversing with Ludwig Wittgenstein in
In this new and provocative approach to the person and identification of Jesus of Nazareth, Stephen White may stimulate some people or annoy others. He would, however, argue strongly for the ultimate
Poems inspired by a journey to the High Arctic, calling up voices from across the Arctic past - explorers, whalers, mapmakers, scientists, financiers, the famous and the forgotten - as well as att
In this third and final volume in the series, Cathcart (Near Eastern languages, U. College Dublin, Ireland) collects the letters (mostly previously unpublished) of Edward Hincks (1792-1866), an Irish
Between 1918 and 1925, fifty-three republicans from Clare gave their lives in the struggle for independence and in the subsequent Civil War. In the first book to focus exclusively on Clare's republica
Today, change in our material lives is a constant. Many now living have seen the advent not only of the mobile phone and the Internet, but also of space exploration, vaccines and even indoor plumbing.
Author O'Malley served in the Irish Air Corps as a flying officer in the 1960s and now holds a doctorate in history from National University of Ireland-Maynooth. In this account of the history of the
Murray, a post-graduate researcher at the National University of Ireland, Galway, presents a comprehensive history of the Irish Boundary Commission, the body created by the Anglo-Irish treaty of 1921
This historical novel explores the lives of the women in a rural family living in straitened circumstances in 1840s Norway But the book explores the women of the family: the heroic Ma, who struggles t
This work presents two books by naturalist Sir Frank Fraser Darling KBE (1903-1979), Island Years (1940) and Island Farm (1943). Darling moved himself and his family to Scotland's remote Summer Isles
