New Books imprint: 461 books
Here's Me Here
Further Reflections of a Relapsed Protestant
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
‘Glenn Patterson is Northern Ireland’s prose laureate’ – Will Self Here's Me Here: Further Reflections of a Lapsed Protestant features a wide and thought-provoking section of Glenn Patterson's writings. With his trademark wit and intelligence. Patterson offers his wry take on life on this...
The Press Gang
Tales from the Glory Days of Irish Newspapers
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
In September 1931, Pádraig Pearse's mother started a revolution in Dublin. She pushed a button, and the presses began rolling at Éamon de Valera's legendary Irish Press Newspaper Group, changing the landscape of Irish journalism forever. In The Press Gang, for the first time, fifty-five of its former...
Blanketmen
An Untold Story of the H-Block Hunger Strike
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
‘I was told in 1991 that I could be shot for opening my mouth. But I am convinced that the truth should be told and that I have a duty to the dead hunger strikers to explain fully the events that led to their deaths.’ Richard O’Rawe was a senior IRA prisoner in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh Prison....
Hotchkiss
A Chronicle of an American School
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1998
How has the Hotchkiss School managed to accommodate a hundred years of unprecedented change—a century during which horse-and-buggy trails have become less familiar than the fiery trails of space-bound vehicles, and Victorian propriety has yielded to unabashed self-expression? The short answer—carefully;...
Kingdom Overthrown
Ireland and the Battle for Europe 1688-1693
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2015
‘As the Williamite troops began to gain a foothold in the street beyond the breach, the Jacobite soldiers rushed out from cover and crashed into them. The most furious and cruel hand-to-hand fighting of the war began. For almost four hours men punched and clubbed and wrestled and stabbed each other,...
by Donald P. Gregg
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Pot Shards is a memoir, based on the author's memorable experiences. He served as a CIA's agent on the island of Saipan, during ten years in Japan, a tour in Burma, four years tied up in the Vietnam War, two tours in Korea, the second time as ambassador, and ten years in the White House, where he worked for Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and George H. Bush.
by Maurice Valency
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 1998
This introduction to Greek tragedy, the origin of much of our modern drama, is the work of a remarkable scholar who is also a practical man of theater. The author of magisterial studies of Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov and Shaw, and of symbolism in the theater from the nineteenth century to our times,...
British Chimney Sweeps
Five Centuries of Chimney Sweeping
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2001
Our picture of a chimney sweep is often Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins. This meticulously researched examination shows a different side to this hazardous trade. The art and science of chimney sweeping are examined in detail for the first time in this lively and fascinating book. From the development...
The Sorcerer's Secrets
Strategies in Practical Magick
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2009
This book is about real magick, effecting real change, in a real world. There are some books on magick that teach it purely as spiritual advancement. There are others that teach it as a form of psychological self-help that effects only inner change. While magick can and should be both of these, it...
Time on the Ocean
A Voyage from Cape Horn to Cape Town
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
"Dorgan’s spirit soars – and with it the reader’s...Time on the Ocean will be relished by all sailors, to be sure. But it will also give hours of pleasure to anyone who appreciates superb writing and for whom a tale of the human spirit pitted against raw nature is irresistible." -The...
Foundation Stone
Notes Toward a Constitution for a 21st-Century Republic
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
A critical evaluation of the changes the Irish constitution needs to bring radical reform to Ireland. "In 1949, almost offhandedly, we declared our State a Republic. Remarkably nobody seems to have thought that this should have prompted a long, cold hard look at the Constitution. I say remarkably,...
by Robert Bresson, Pascal Merigeau
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Robert Bresson, the director of such cinematic master-pieces as Pickpocket, A Man Escaped Mouchette, and L’Argent, was one of the most influential directors in the history of French film, as well as one of the most stubbornly individual: He insisted on the use of nonprofessional actors; he shunned...
The Projectionist
The Story of Ernest Gébler
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Ernest Gebler, the writer of such international bestsellers as The Plymouth Adventure and Call Me Daddy (which became the film Hoffman), led a remarkable life. In this unauthorized biography, Carlo Gebler, Ernest's estranged son, tells the many stories of his father's life, from Ernest's turbulent...
by Eric Karpeles
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
A compelling biography of the Polish painter and writer Józef Czapski that takes readers to Paris in the Roaring Twenties, to the front lines during WWII, and into the late 20th-century art world.
Józef Czapski (1896–1993) lived many lives during his ninety-six years. He was a student in...