Animating the Dead: Bronze Age Burial Practices in Orkney
This book brings together the results of the Orkney Barrows Project. It makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the Bronze Age of Orkney; an area of study which, until now, has been little understood.
Jane Downes
Published: January /
2022
Oxbow Books
9781789255584
416 Pages
£40
Hardback
United Kingdom
British & Irish history
Albertino Mussato: The Making of a Poet Laureate: A Political and Intellectual Portrait
This book examines the life and political career of Albertino Mussato (1261–1329), a Paduan poet, historian and politician.
Aislinn McCabe
Published: January /
2022
Taylor & Francis Ltd
9781032061948
200 Pages
£120
Hardback
United Kingdom
Medieval history
Against the Tide: The best of Roger Scruton’s columns, commentaries and criticism
The definitive edition of the late Sir Roger Scruton's philosophical and political essays and reviews, now collected in one volume, edited by Mark Dooley
Sir Roger Scruton; Mark Dooley
Published: January /
2022
Bloomsbury Continuum
9781472992932
256 Pages
£20
Hardback
United Kingdom
Philosophy
Acts of Desperation
She's twenty-three and in love with love. The affair is quickly consuming. But this relationship is unpredictable, and behind his perfect looks is a mean streak. The search for a fix is frantic, and taking a dangerous turn... We're all looking to get what we want - but do we know what we need?
Megan Nolan
Published: January /
2022
Vintage
9781529113013
304 Pages
£8.99
Paperback / softback
United Kingdom
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
About Us
Three couples. One therapist’s couch … Alice and Niall used to be lovers, best friends and parents, in that order.
Sinead Moriarty
Published: January /
2022
Penguin Books Ltd
9781844885367
384 Pages
£7.99
Paperback / softback
United Kingdom
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
We Are Not in the World: ‘compelling and profoundly moving’ Irish Times
a must read' Elaine Feeney '...the book stays with you, a haunting presence you cannot - and do not want to - escape...astounding.' Ruth Gilligan Extraordinary...achingly sad and tender and sexy, and the writing is very beautiful.' Louise Kennedy 'Wonderful, wrenching .
Conor O'Callaghan
Published: January /
2022
Penguin
9781529176360
272 Pages
£8.99
Paperback / softback
United Kingdom
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Terrorists, Anarchists, and Republicans: The Genevans and the Irish in Time of Revolution
A bloody episode that epitomised the political dilemmas of the eighteenth century
Richard Whatmore
Published: January /
2022
Princeton University Press
9780691206646
512 Pages
€26.99
£25
Paperback / softback
United States
European history
The Reading Figure in Irish Art in the Long Nineteenth Century
This book examines Irish portraits during the long nineteenth century in which figures read or hold a book. Reading fiction was cast as unmanly, while ‘silent reading’ allowed women of means to read widely and privately. Portraits of such women helped construct the idea of the ‘New Woman’ in Ireland.
Tricia Cusack
Published: January /
2022
Anthem Press
9781785276446
250 Pages
€96
£80
Hardback
United Kingdom
Portraits in art
The Night Caller: An exciting new voice in Irish crime fiction
Introducing a new DS, Lucy Golden, who has a point to prove when she returns to her rural home town after 10 years in Dublin and discovers that sometimes darkness stalks the most beautiful places...
Martina Murphy
Published: January /
2022
Constable
9780349134963
400 Pages
£8.99
Paperback / softback
United Kingdom
Crime & mystery
Murder in an Irish Village: A gripping cosy village mystery
In the small village of Kilbane, County Cork, Ireland, Naomi's Bistro has always been a warm and welcoming spot to visit with neighbors and share a cup o' tea. But murder has a way of killing business . . .
Carlene O'Connor
Published: January /
2022
Canelo
9781800326873
400 Pages
£8.99
Paperback / softback
United Kingdom
Crime & mystery