Quotidian
Through a series of vignettes, the nameless female narrator of Quotidian revisits the rooms of her past to reconcile the malcontent she experiences as a mother, wife and homemaker. Unearthing repressed disappointments, desires, fears and expectations, she begins piecing together, in an intimate and honest narrative, her perceived ordinary, inconsequential life. In doing so, she becomes increasingly estranged from her spouse and her invisible friend, Miss C. When her life begins to spiral into free fall, the narrator, despite struggling to maintain normalcy, toys briefly with a sham flirtation before salvation arrives in the unlikely form of a homeless musician.
Mary Wilkinson
Published: September /
2023
Reflex Press
9781914114144
190 Pages
10.99
UK
Wise Creatures
'When it comes to writing YA fiction as beautiful, eerie and utterly chilling as WISE CREATURES, Deirdre Sullivan is in a league of her own' - Louise O'Neill, author of ONLY EVER YOURS I always thought that hauntings began with houses. To shut away the wise creatures who used to whisper to her from the walls of the house.
Deirdre Sullivan
Published: September /
2023
Hot Key Books
9781471411205
384 Pages
£8.99
Paperback
United Kingdom
Horror & ghost stories, chillers (Children's / Teenage)
Twiggy Woman
Follow up to successful Why The Moon Travels, a collection of Irish Traveller folklore ghost stories with eerie illustrations throughout. Publishing in time for Halloween, the stories here have never really been written or brought into mainstream English before. A collection of traveller folk tales and tales of the supernatural.
Oein DeBhairduin; Helena Grimes
Published: September /
2023
Skein Press
9781915017079
156 Pages
€14.99
£12.99
Hardback
Ireland
Horror & ghost stories
Thirsty Ghosts
Two families inhabit this immersive polyvocal work, an intergenerational saga announced with The Cruelty Men (2018) and continued here as punk rockers and Magdalene laundries spiral into a post-colonial Ireland still haunted by its tribal undertow.
Emer Martin
Published: September /
2023
The Lilliput Press Ltd
9781843518631
320 Pages
€18.00
£16.00
Paperback
Ireland
Fiction & related items
The Map of the World
Although The Map of the World abounds in the tales half-told or hinted at for which Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s poetry is widely admired this book reaches further into the ways one might confront misfortune and disaster and the whole weight of history. Her images present ideas about how to engage with the past and about other genres’ representations of it. Already celebrated poems such as ‘St Brigid’s Well’ and ‘Muriel Gifford After Her Fever’ mix with lines prompted by Milton and Marvell and the artists Nano Reid and Helen Moloney to ‘hold in view / history’s patched lining, the sewing’. Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s corruscating poems are like no one else’s: ‘a stream is venturing a brisk melody’. So satisfying is the experience of this poet’s art a new collection of poems by her is an occasion for rejoicing.
Eilean Ni Chuilleanain
Published: September /
2023
Gallery Books
9781911338659
64 Pages
€18.50
£15.95
Hardback
Ireland
Poetry by individual poets
The Long Game: Inside Sinn Fein
Sinn Fein is the most popular political party in both Northern Ireland and the Republic. A party once synonymous with a paramilitary campaign is on the brink of taking real power through purely democratic means. But if Sinn Fein has mastered the art of electoral politics, it remains strangely opaque. Who really runs the party? How is it funded? And what can we expect of it as a party of government? Aoife Moore, Irish Journalist of the Year 2021, explores these and other burning questions in The Long Game. Drawing on exclusive interviews with current and former members of Sinn Fein, she builds up a picture of a party undergoing a profound, and still incomplete , transformation. She looks at the key individuals and moments that put the party on its present course, and she explores tensions within the party and the wider republican movement. Packed with revelatory details, The Long Game is a groundbreaking telling of contemporary Ireland’s biggest and most elusive political story.
Aoife Moore
Published: September /
2023
Sandycove
9781844885794
336 Pages
£17.99
Paperback
United Kingdom
Political parties
The Gilligan Tapes: Ireland’s Most Notorious Crime Boss In His Own Words
In this remarkable book – the first of its kind – journalist Jason O’Toole distills hours of sensational no-holds-barred interviews with feared criminal John Gilligan into a jaw-dropping account of the Irish gangland scene.
Jason O'Toole
Published: September /
2023
Merrion Press
9781785374678
320 Pages
€18.99
£17.99
Paperback
Ireland
True crime
New Weather
When it appeared in 1973, Seamus Heaney described its author as 'unusually gifted, endowed with an individual sense of rhythm, a natural and copious vocabulary, a technical accomplishment and an intellectual boldness that mark him as the most promising poet to appear in Ireland for years'.
Paul Muldoon
Published: September /
2023
Faber & Faber
9780571384426
64 Pages
£12.99
Paperback
United Kingdom
Poetry by individual poets
Daughter of Winter and Twilight: In every myth there is a seed of truth
Sequel to 2020's exciting YA debut - Queen of Coin and Whispers Trapped deep within a mountain temple alongside other captured young royals, Emri faces a race against time to complete Lady Winter's trials ... or die.
Helen Corcoran
Published: September /
2023
O'Brien Press Ltd
9781788493703
576 Pages
€14.99
£13.99
Paperback
Ireland
Fantasy & magical realism (Children's / Teenage)
Breaking the Heart Open: The Shaping of a Psychologist
An illuminating examination of trauma, mental illness and the power of compassion.
Tony Bates
Published: September /
2023
Gill Books
9780717199174
336 Pages
€22.99
£21.99
Hardback
Ireland
Memoirs