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A Second LifeWritten by Dermot Bolger.A new series from New Island, putting twentieth-century Irish classics back on the shelves for a new readership. The first of the series includes acclaimed and well-loved authors Benedict Kiely, Anthony Cronin and Dermot Bolger. Following a car crash, for several seconds, Dublin photographer Sean Blake is clinically dead. When he plummets back to life, it is into a world which, for him, has profoundly changed. This is not the first time that he has been given a second life. At the age of six weeks he was taken from his mother, when as a young girl in rural Ireland, she was forced to give up her baby for adoption. Beginning the quest for his own identity, Sean determines to find his natural mother. This leads him on a strange and absorbing journey. |
In This LifeWritten by Michael O'Loughlin.A new collection from Michael O’Loughlin, recognised as one of the most important Irish poets of his generation. This will be his first collection since 1987. |
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The Cards of The GamblerWritten by Benedict Kiely.p>A new series from New Island, putting twentieth-century Irish classics back on the shelves for a new readership. The first of the series includes acclaimed and well-loved authors Benedict Kiely, Anthony Cronin and Dermot Bolger.</p><p>This classic novel from renowned novelist, short-story writer and broadcaster Benedict Kiely follows the trials of a doctor who becomes a gambler and loses everything.</p> |
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The Only Glow of the DayWritten by Martin Malone.A new historical novel from the author of The Silence of the Glasshouse, based on the author’s one-hour play for RTÉ Radio 1, Rosanna Night Walker. It is the winter of 1863 and Rosanna Doyle is living rough on the Curragh grasslands, within walking distance of a large military encampment. The novel follows her arrival at a ‘wren’s nest’ (furze bush), her life among the women there, and her meeting with journalist Richard Tone. |
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God's EntreprenuersWritten by Joe Humphreys.Who are the Irish missionaries and what has motivated them? Why did people go? For glory, adventure, escape? And what did they achieve? The author, Irish Times journalist Joe Humphreys, has visited the missionaries’ places of work across the globe, asking what motivated them in the past, and what continues to motivate the modern missionary. Along the way, we meet women who defied a Catholic Church ban on practising medicine, ‘turbulent’ priests who challenged despots and dictators (and sometimes won), and aid workers, who today fight against such global problems as religious extremism and HIV/AIDS. |