The Woman on the Bridge
THE NO. 1 IRISH BESTSELLER The dramatic, poignant and unputdownable story of a young woman caught up in Ireland's fight for freedom. Inspired by the true story of the author's grandmother.
Sheila O'Flanagan
Published: October /
2023
Headline Review
9781035402793
384 Pages
£9.99
Paperback
United Kingdom
Historical fiction
The Translations of Seamus Heaney
Collectively these bring us closer to an understanding of the genius for interpretation and transformation that distinguished Heaney as one of the great poet-translators of all time. 'The Translations .
Seamus Heaney; Dr Marco Sonzogni
Published: October /
2023
Faber & Faber
9780571342532
704 Pages
£18.99
Paperback
United Kingdom
Translation & interpretation
The Swerve
The Swerve, his tenth collection, is Peter Sirr’s first book of poems since The Gravity Wave (2019), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and winner of the Farmgate National Poetry Award. It is a book as ample as it is confident in its risk taking. From the wit of ‘Border Control’ (reminiscent of Richard Wilbur’s) through the movement and energy of the beautiful title poem, The Swerve ruminates on Tang poets and engages in conversations with Buson and Borges. Its mixed tones range from the bold assertions of ‘A Valediction’ (‘Goodbye, year, / we thought you’d never leave.’) and the positive note of this poem’s ending to the delicacy of ‘Threshold’ in which ‘Chen Zhongsen / is carving two Tang poems // on a single grey strand / of his wife’s hair’.
Peter Sirr
Published: October /
2023
Gallery Books
9781911338451
104 Pages
€13.90
£11.95
Paperback
Ireland
Poetry by individual poets
The Promise of Forever
The potatoes for the family lunch are half-peeled and forgotten in the kitchen, and Dee is upstairs, clutching a fragile boat made of folded paper. The tears won’t stop as she thinks about Sean, Fionn and Oisin. The three O’Connell boys who over the last twenty years, changed her life forever. The one she loved, the one she married, and the one who died…
Brooke Harris
Published: October /
2023
Storm Publishing
9781805080930
354 Pages
£11.99
Paperback
United Kingdom
Fiction: special features
The Oxford History of British and Irish Catholicism, Volume V: Recapturing the Apostolate of the Laity, 1914-2021
The fifth volume of The Oxford History of British & Irish Catholicism, which assembles synoptic chapters from leading historians of modern Catholicism, offers a comprehensive and accessible overview of the changing contours of the Church on two islands (and with connections across the world) throughout the twentieth century.
Alana Harris (Director of the Liberal Arts programme and a Reader in Modern British Social, Cultural and Gender History, Director of the Liberal Arts programme and a Reader in Modern British Social, Cultural and Gender History, King's College London)
Published: October /
2023
Oxford University Press
9780198844310
416 Pages
£125.00
Hardback
United Kingdom
Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church
The Oxford History of British and Irish Catholicism, Volume IV: Building Identity, 1830-1913
The fourth volume of Oxford History of British and Irish Catholicism provides an overview of the history of Catholicism in the four nations of the United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland between 1830 and 1913, and demonstrates how Catholics in both islands participated in national, European, and global cultures.
Carmen M. Mangion (Senior Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Birkbeck University of London); Susan O'Brien (Senior Member, Senior Member, St Edmund's College, University of Cambridge)
Published: October /
2023
Oxford University Press
9780198848196
368 Pages
£125.00
Hardback
United Kingdom
Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church
The Oxford History of British and Irish Catholicism, Volume III: Relief, Revolution, and Revival, 1746-1829
The third volume of The Oxford History of British and Irish Catholicism examines the crucial period from the defeat of the Jacobite army at the battle of Culloden in 1746 to the enactment of Catholic emancipation in 1829.
Liam Chambers (Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of History, Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of History, Mary Immaculate CollegeSenior Lecturer and Head of the Department of History, Mary Immaculate College)
Published: October /
2023
Oxford University Press
9780198843443
368 Pages
£125.00
Hardback
United Kingdom
Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church
The Oxford History of British and Irish Catholicism, Volume II: Uncertainty and Change, 1641-1745
The second volume of The Oxford History of British & Irish Catholicism traces the fortunes of Catholic communities in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland from the outset of the Civil Wars in 1641 to the Jacobite rising of 1745. Consciously transnational, it stresses connections with the European continent and beyond.
John Morrill (Emeritus Professor of British and Irish History, Emeritus Professor of British and Irish History, University of CambridgeEmeritus Professor of British and Irish History, University of Cambridge); Liam Temple (Capuchin Fellow in the History o
Published: October /
2023
Oxford University Press
9780198843436
352 Pages
£125.00
Hardback
United Kingdom
Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church
The Oxford History of British and Irish Catholicism, Volume I: Endings and New Beginnings, 1530-1640
The first volume of The Oxford History of British & Irish Catholicism explores the period 1530-1640, from Henry VIII's break with Rome to the outbreak of the civil wars in Britain and Ireland, telling the story of the formation of a distinct Catholic identity.
James E. Kelly (Sweeting Associate Professor in the History of Catholicism, Sweeting Associate Professor in the History of Catholicism, Durham UniversitySweeting Associate Professor in the History of Catholicism, Durham University); John McCafferty (Profe
Published: October /
2023
Oxford University Press
9780198843801
352 Pages
£125.00
Hardback
United Kingdom
Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church
The Oxford Handbook of Irish English
This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the range of varieties of English spoken on the island of Ireland. It explores the historical background and structural features of Irish English, alongside sociolinguistic considerations, and will be of interest to readers in fields of varieties of English, Irish studies, and sociolinguistics.
Raymond Hickey (Adjunct Professor, Adjunct Professor, University of LimerickAdjunct Professor, University of Limerick)
Published: October /
2023
Oxford University Press
9780198856153
736 Pages
£135.00
Hardback
United Kingdom
Sociolinguistics