My German Dictionary, which won the fourteenth annual Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, is a guide to a...

Blue Rooms, Morri Creech's long awaited fourth collection, explores the uncertain terrain between...

Brings together in a cohesive and readable volume, the three key events from which the Republic o...

A Safe Conduct is set in a decaying German principality, on the brink of the Reformation and when...

It is extremely readable, consistently entertaining...No book that tells the reader that the Roma...

Transatlantic Triumph and Heroic Failure: The Galway Line

These richly imaginative, unsettling poems cluster around the figure of Marsyas, from Titian's gr...

This new novel by Noel Virtue is set in an isolated township of jerry-built houses in North Islan...

Derrybeg and Back offers us a splendid poetic journey from the riven shores of County Donegal to ...

Adjusting to the sweltering heat of the Mississippi Delta is the least of Teri's troubles. Dragge...

Cuban-American family saga set against Castro's 1959 revolution and today

The Ordnance Survey Memoirs are a uniquely detailed source for the history of the northern half o...

Matt Simpson's poems have been praised for the vivid way they link up to tell an evolving story. ...

In 18th-century Ireland radical intellectuals embraced revolution. One was Arthur O'Connor, who b...

Set in a preparatory school after the end of WWI, this is a brilliant tragi-comedy about children...

When Sean Rothery was a young Irish architecture student in 1950, he set out from Dieppe to cycle...

Phyllis Willmott's previous three volumes of autobiography have been much acclaimed. In Joys and ...

Call the Swallow

The First Toll Roads: Ireland's Turnpike Roads, 1729-1858

The title of this collection implies more than the inability to provide a title: these are 'new' ...

Readers are instantly involved in the unique, fast-paced plot centering on ten members of one fam...

Club Q

Originally written and published in Britain under the aegis of the covert Information Research De...

Many worthy and distinguished essays in favor of nuclear disarmament. Contributors include: Alber...

A Visitor's Guide to Northern Ireland provides up-to-date information on touring, historic monume...

The headlines, in recent years, have told of scandal, conflict - even murder within family busine...

POETRY LITERATURE, CRITICISM, MEMOIRS, LETTERS

'An original poet with something very definite to say' - Poetry Review. The author's third volume.

'Erudition moves with light and pleasing step through eighteen brief critical-interpretative essa...

'Her first book of poems, concerned with death, despair and the cage of life. Her statements are ...

Describes the horses used by knights in the Middle Ages, as well as the equipment and weapons the...

Germany: People & Politics

Second edition. From the author's famous life of a medieval knight series, this book provides a l...

Women and the Warlords

The poems in this collection are observances of the peaceful tranquility of Ireland. Irish-Americ...

'Sharply intelligent, exact, colloquial and persuasive' - TLS. Poetry from Alan Brownjohn.

The first comprehensive examination of one of Ireland's leading social novelists of this century....

There are few great books about sailing on pleasure boats, but this is one. Afloat is the story o...

'These poems are among the most directly touching that I have read for a long time. They are pers...

This is a collection of personal essays on greater and lesser known writers whose lives and caree...

Perhaps nothing is more fascinating to the student of literature than an insight into a writer's ...

Meet Christian Leonard Hooker, Everyman, redeemed by his weaknesses, saved by his failures. In a ...

'Schmidt at his best projects a strong sense of man's being part of, yet a stranger in, an inhosp...

Winner of a Welsh Arts Council competition and a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. 'Very moving...

Many of these poems were written in Northern Ireland in the year since the ceasefire. As well as ...

In The Year of the Hiker, an absentee father sends shock waves through his family when he returns...

How can we thrive, knowing that death is our reward? In Norwegian author Holmebakk's haunting mas...

'One of few American poets whose greatest strength is her power as a thinker...Endorsed for those...