The O’Brien Press

Hunting Shadows

An obsession for him. Life and death for her.

By Sheila Bugler

A tense thriller that stalks the urban streets of southeast London and the bleak wilderness of the North Kent coast, Hunting Shadows introduces the forceful, compromised police detective, DI Ellen Kelly. Can she find the missing girl before it's too late?

Pages:

448

I Am In Blood

Old Murders Never Die

By Joe Murphy

A multi-layered, Gothic tale of obsession and bloodshed set in modern-day and Victorian Dublin.

Pages:

368

The Journey

New and Selected Poems

By Alice Taylor

Alice Taylor's poems have proved perennially popular. Some have been woven into her phenomenally successful memoirs, and she has published three previous books of poetry. Organized thematically, this substantial collection includes sections entitled "The Home Place", "A Village Romance", "Grief and Grace", and "Winter Ploughing."

Pages:

196

The Joyce We Knew

Memoirs of Joyce

Edited by Ulick O'Connor

These fascinating reminiscences by some of his friends and contemporaries give a deep insight into James Joyce and bring to light many less well-known characteristics.

Pages:

126

Joyce's Pupil

By Drago Jancar

The finest short stories of Slovenia's most prominent author. A young man learns English in 1914 from James Joyce. Years later, in 1941, this same man must flee his country, and he becomes the Slovenian voice of British radio. On his return to Yugoslavia, he falls foul of the new communist authorities.

Pages:

176

The New Ireland

A Vision For The Future

By Gerry Adams

A unique political manifesto at a crucial moment from the leading figure in Irish Republicanism. Adams outlines the challenge of transforming Irish society through a vision of self-determination and sovereignty, inclusiveness and equality.

Pages:

128

The Night Before Christmas

By Alice Taylor

Alice Taylor takes a nostalgic, loving look back to a family firmly rooted in tradition and humour and - in particular - the Christmas traditions of her childhood. With her unerring knack of bringing her readers into her home, her stories of a childhood Christmas are rich, warm and amusing, giving a wonderful insight into life as it was.

Pages:

160

On the Brinks

By Sam Millar

The incredible true life story of Sam Millar, from his childhood in Belfast to membership of the IRA, time spent in Long Kesh internment camps and carrying out the $7 million Brinks heist, one of the biggest robberies in U.S. history. Subject of RTE Documentary on One: The Seven Million Dollar Man.

Pages:

464

Paprika

By Frank McGuinness

In the first collection of stories by Frank McGuinness, this award-winning master storyteller writes above all about freedom: freedom to love, freedom from hate, freedom to speak, freedom to silence. In hypnotic, spellbinding prose, Frank McGuinness hears the voices and sees the visions of his own troubled times.

Pages:

224

The Parish

By Alice Taylor

In a series of vignettes of life in her village, Alice Taylor reasserts the priorities of public space and local community. The Parish evokes and explores the positive values of community, which could be renewed and reinvigorated for a present and future that achieves harmony between comfort and the pressing need to respect the environment.

Pages:

224

Past Darkness

By Sam Millar

Fourth installment in the Karl Kane detective series by Sam Millar.

Pages:

288

Quench the Lamp

By Alice Taylor

Infused with wit and lyricism, this memoir centres on the 1950's when the author and her friends were teenagers. She describes the past vividly and without complaint as the years of hard labour for herself, parents and siblings, were also filled with fun in the close knit community.

Pages:

192

The Redemption Factory

By Sam Millar

A brutal and compelling tale of murder and corruption, set in the surreal environment of an abattoir.

Pages:

254

The Rising of Bella Casey

By Mary Morrissy

From a piano abandoned on the strife-torn streets of Dublin in Easter 1916, Mary Morissy spins the reader backwards through the life of one-time enigmatic beauty Bella Casey, sister to the famed playwright Sean O’Casey.

An ambitious novel about love, history and literature.

Pages:

352

The Secret Dublin Diary of Gerard Manley Hopkins

By Robert Waldron

A bold exploration in fiction of the years Gerard Manley Hopkins, one of England's foremost Victorian poets, spent in Ireland - of his torments, his ecstasies, his fears, and his loves. This is the story of a man who loves greatly, but because of the life he has chosen, he must always dissemble.

Pages:

160

Selected Writings

By Gerry Adams

"Adams writes fluently and observantly . . . He displays a hard-edged compassion for the silent poor, the old and the down-and-out." Financial Times

Pages:

352