Peter Cunningham: 5 books

From the award-winning author of The Sea and the Silence comes “a superbly crafted psychological thriller” of a man searching for his own secret past (Dermot Bolger, author of An Ark of Light). Writer Alex Smith was born in Ireland, but after making a life with his wife in rural Canada,...

Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, “a wonderful brew of a book about politics, family, violence, love, betrayal—life, in other words” (John Banville, Man Booker Prize–winning author of The Sea). Marty Ransom, heir to a hilltop estate near Waterford in independent Ireland,...

Throughout history governments have had to confront the problem of how to deal with the poorer parts of their population. During the medieval and early modern period this responsibility was largely borne by religious institutions, civic institutions and individual charity. By the eighteenth century,...

Novel Ideas provides a substantial introduction to the elements of fiction followed by in-depth interviews with successful novelists who speak with candor and insight into the complex process by which a novel is made. This edition includes new and updated interviews as well as writing exercises to...

In September 2002, twenty-one prominent Catholic and Protestant scholars released the groundbreaking document "A Sacred Obligation," which includes ten statements about Jewish-Christian dialogue focused around a guiding claim: "Revising Christian teaching about Judaism and the Jewish...