Sunday Miscellany: A Selection, 2018-2023
RTÉ Radio 1’s Sunday Miscellany is an Irish institution, a programme that has provided comfort, joy and entertainment to hundreds of thousands of listeners for over half a century. Arranged in calendar months and spanning the seasons of the year, some of the best broadcasts from the last five years are collected here in one volume. This sparkling selection of writing by the best of new, established and household names is sure to amuse, move and delight readers of all ages.
Sarah Binchy
Published: October /
2023
New Island Books
9781848409040
464 Pages
€19.95
£17.99
Paperback
Ireland
Anthologies (non-poetry)
Stranger at Home
Following in the footsteps of Nobel Laureate Heinrich Bo ll's 1956 classic Irish Journal, Hugo Hamilton revisits Boll's evocations of 18 places across the island to take stock of the changes that have occurred over the last seven decades in Ireland. Part travelogue, part memoir, part social commentary, and part comic masterpiece.
Hugo Hamilton
Published: October /
2023
The Irish Pages Press
9781739353759
£35.00
Hardback
United Kingdom
Prose: non-fiction
Starting a Business in Ireland (8e)
THE book for would-be entrepreneurs to read before setting out on their entrepreneurial journey. It covers getting started; researching your market; writing a business plan; financing your start-up; and implementation. It includes a directory of State, EU and private sector organisations that provide assistance to start-ups.
Brian O'Kane
Published: October /
2023
Oak Tree Press
9781781196021
250 Pages
£22.95
Paperback
Ireland
Entrepreneurship
Stand Up and Fight: When Munster Beat the All Blacks
31/10/1978, Thomond Park. On one of the greatest days in rugby history, Munster beat the All Blacks. More than 100,000 people claimed to have watched the game, even though the ground could only hold 12,000. Now, fully updated for the 45th anniversary of the match, Alan English tells the true story.
Alan English
Published: October /
2023
Polaris Publishing Limited
9781915359285
368 Pages
£12.99
Paperback
United Kingdom
Rugby Union
St. Patrick: The Man and His Works
Saint Patrick has become almost synonymous with Irish Christianity, being held as the only true apostle of Ireland, after single-handedly converting the country. This new translation of his works is accompanied by explanatory notes and Bible references. The introduction gives the background to Patrick the man, the believer and the missionary.
Professor Thomas O'Loughlin
Published: October /
2023
Triangle
9780281052110
96 Pages
£0.01
Paperback
United Kingdom
The Early Church
Solas Geimhridh
Laoighseach Ni Choistealbha
Published: October /
2023
Barzaz
9781915684127
£13.95
Hardback
Ireland
Poetry
Shoulder Tap
SHORTLISTED FOR THE POETRY PIGOTT PRIZE IN ASSOCIATION WITH LISTOWEL WRITERS' WEEK Throughout these poems, with their roaming sense of first-person, the speakers' minds are cavernous and echoic, primal and sophisticated, observant and raw, in and out of control of themselves.
Maurice Riordan
Published: October /
2023
Faber & Faber
9780571367122
72 Pages
£10.99
Paperback
United Kingdom
Poetry by individual poets
Sandy Kelly: In My Own Words
From her magical childhood being reared in a family of travelling entertainers to building a career as a music star, Sandy recounts the highs - and lows - of a lifetime in music.
Sandy Kelly
Published: October /
2023
O'Brien Press Ltd
9781788494366
272 Pages
€24.99
£22.99
Hardback
Ireland
Autobiography: arts & entertainment
Sally in the City of Dreams
Bridget and Sally are leaving rural Ireland for New York, to stay with a distant relative, Catherine, who has found jobs for them. Can the girls settle in to their strange new life and their jobs in America?
Judi Curtin
Published: October /
2023
O'Brien Press Ltd
9781788494519
288 Pages
€12.99
£11.99
Paperback
Ireland
Historical fiction (Children's / Teenage)
Sacred Rituals: A Simple Book of Everyday Prayer
A simple book of spirituality drawing on the power of personal prayer and rituals in our everyday lives.
Noirin Ni Riain
Published: October /
2023
Hachette Books Ireland
9781399729468
256 Pages
£16.99
Hardback
Ireland
Spirituality & religious experience