Bad Day In Blackrock

Winner of the Rooney prize, 2009.

'Kevin Power is an author of magnificent control, stirring the deepest compassion with restless anger in this piercing contemporary novel.' Frank McGuinness

'It's an excellent novel, ...

Big in Japan

'An uproariously funny account of what it's like to become a star in the music world!' Louis Walsh

When pop Svengali Max of Big In Japan Records discovers Cara in a shop in Temple Bar, he immediately signs her up to his stable of ...

Changing the Times: Irish Women Journalists 1969-1981

This 'new journalism' by Irish Times women writers originally appeared on the Women First pages during the 1970s. Together, the pieces reflect the enormous social and political upheaval of the years when, as the first woman's page editor Mary Maher put...

Diary of a Teddy Boy

'Captures that hinge moment when everything changed form grey to colour.' - Marianne Faithfull

London, 1950s. Mr Tobias, the Fulham tailor, makes young Emilio Scala a fingertip drape and he fills it, a Teddy boy extraordinaire. By day he still serve...

G.A.A.Y

'The G.A.A is the Gaelic Athletic Association. G.A.Y. is a club night at the London Astoria. Both are full of sweaty men.'

'You've got to fight to be fabulous.'

Anto Broderick is young, cute and wants to be a pop star. But he's cursed with parents ...

Helen Rock's Irish Gardening

Helen Rock, whose column in The Sunday Tribune features the finest garden writing to be found in Ireland, has gathered and adapted the best of those essays into a volume that will immediately establish itself as the Irish gardener's most useful, and readab...

Mind Your Manners: A Guide to Good Behaviour

New Title from Sitric Books.

It's the thought that counts. So, while society has changed, the need for thoughtfulness, courtesy and good manners has not. What is the etiquette for internet use, emails and mobile phone calls? How does one ...

Mirror, Mirror: Confessions of a Plastic Surgery Addict

Terry Prone once thought plastic surgery was for the vain, the self-regarding and the rich. She thought herself the person least likely to submit to the plastic surgeon's scalpel.

But this was before a traumatic car crash in which the ste...

My Generation: Rock 'n' Roll Remembered, An Imperfect History

Overnight to Innsbruck

On an overnight train to Innsbruck, ex-lovers Richard and Frances meet each other by chance many years after their mysterious separation on a train journey through the blistering heat and vast empty expanses of the Sudanese desert. As they each tell t...

Revolutions

Evening Herald/Today FM Paperback Writer Competition Winner

Marysol Castillo is a Cuban-American girl living in Miami. Haunted by the loss of their homeland, her parents and friends 'imagine their little two-bedroom homes to be Santa Clar...

She Moves Through the Boom

What's happening in Ireland? Behind the triumphalist headlines of the boom, there are changes going on - in the way people work, speak, eat, even the way they think - that cannot be quantified by statistics nor squared with the hollow cliché of the ...

Snapshots

'Nothing is fair in love and war. When has it ever been? But make sure you win. That is, after all, what everybody wants. I thought that when I fell in love I'd leave a lot of death behind. But love isn't pure and shiny. It doesn't make you happy. Love is ...

The Beat: Life on the Streets

Who are the women who walk the beat in Dublin's red-light districts?

How did they get there?

Why do they stay?

What happens when they try to leave?

What are their lives really like?

The Beat: Life on th...

The Companion

'Lorcan Roche is a fresh and vivid voice in new Irish fiction. I love the energy of his writing and its passionate engagement with the world. He is a gifted and clever storyteller.' - Joseph O'Connor

' ...brilliantly achieved....

The State of Grace

'Funny, moving and wise - I loved this wonderful book.' - Pauline McLynn

'Beneath its frothy cappuccino exterior, there beats a heart of gold, and a story told with increasing joie-de-vivre.' - Nuala O'Faolain

Dur...