A A Farmar: 4 books

What is the secret of the three ancient Egyptian rings? And what is their connection with the Knights Templar? Fanatics have killed for their possession—intent on keeping hidden the dangerous knowledge contained in their inscriptions.John Beaumont, a London lawyer, has inherited one of the...

'The young, for all their glory, are desperate,like the Florentines in plague-time.'The young—vividly alive, hopeful and uninhibited—are the heroes of these boisterous novels by the renowned poet Brendan Kennelly.The Crooked Cross tells the dramatic story of a village in...

Ben is a normal, bright, ambitious student. The only difference between his life and yours is that he has a rare blood disease – Fanconi anaemia – which gives sufferers a life expectancy of 22 years. At the age of 16 Ben became the first person in Ireland to have a revolutionary type of bone marrow...

Funny, sad and harsh, with the bitter ring of truth, this extraordinary memoir of Ireland in the 1940s and 1950s recreates a forgotten community.Girls steal sunlight from the day . . . so she was told by the men of her neighbourhood. Growing up in a south Dublin slum, she observed with the...