Blackstaff Press Ltd: 69 books

Cover of Burning Your Own: A coming-of-age novel by one of the best contemporary Irish writers
by Glenn Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013

It is the summer of 1969 and ten-year-old Mal is finding it difficult to settle into his new home, a housing estate on the outskirts of Belfast. He befriends a brash and rebellious teenager, Francy, who revels in his own status as an outsider and has set up camp in the local dump. ...
Cover of The International: ‘The best book about the Troubles ever written’
by Glenn Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011

Saturday, 28 January 1967. It is a day like any other for eighteen-year-old Danny, pulling pints behind the bar of the International Hotel in Belfast, watching the comings and goings of the eccentric clientele. But ordinary days like this are almost over. The hotel has already...
Cover of The Third Party: A surreal odyssey from Belfast to Hiroshima
by Glenn Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2014

Breakfast in a hotel, a stroll through town then it’s off to a meting with clients, followed by dinner and bed … what could be more routine in the life of a travelling businessman? But this is Hiroshima, no ordinary city. And for this Belfast businessman, the past is not...
Cover of Belfast Taxi: A Drive Through History, One Fare at a Time
by Lee Henry
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012

In Belfast Taxi the city’s taxi drivers – of all ages and from all backgrounds – tell their stories in their own words, covering everything from the beginnings of the public-hire and private-hire industries, to the dark days of the Troubles and the vital role taxis currently play in Belfast’s...
Cover of Auld Hands: The Story of the Men Who Made Belfast Shipyards Great
by Tom Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013

The story of shipbuilding in Belfast is known throughout the world: the great ships, including Titanic, HMS Belfast and SS Canberra; the towering cranes; its contribution to making Belfast a great industrial city. Less well known, but just as fascinating and illuminating, is the remarkable story...
Cover of Call My Brother Back: A classic Irish novel about the Troubles of 1920–22
by Michael McLaverty
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011

‘His tact and pacing, in the individual sentence and the overall story are beautiful … McLaverty’s place in our literature is secure.’ Seamus Heaney It is 1918 and thirteen-year-old Colm MacNeill is living happily on Rathlin Island when his security is suddenly shattered...
Cover of May, Lou and Cass: Jane Austen's Nieces in Ireland
by Sophia Hillan
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011

Marianne, Louise and Cassandra Knight were nieces of the great 19th century novelist who gave us Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. Jane knew the girls well, reading and sewing with them as they grew up, and they were often the subject of her witty letters. The...
Cover of Hooleygan: Music, Mayhem, Good Vibrations
by Terri Hooley
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013

‘A drunken lunatic, a lucid guru, a hilarious storyteller and many more things besides.’ Gary Lightbody (Snow Patrol) An influential music promoter and producer, Terri Hooley is the undisputed Godfather of Punk. His life has been colorful and extraordinary and was the...
Cover of Spirit of ’58: The incredible untold story of Northern Ireland’s greatest football team
by Evan Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016

In the summer of 1958 tiny Northern Ireland stood just one game away from a semi-final appearance in the World Cup against the mighty Brazil. The heroic story of this uniquely blessed squad of players, led by the peerless Danny Blanchflower, takes in the Munich Air Disaster, a fight against Sabbath...
Cover of A Force Like No Other: The real stories of the RUC men and women who policed the Troubles
by Colin Breen
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017

In 1983, Interpol named Northern Ireland the most dangerous place in the world to be a police officer. In 1968, the RUC was catapulted into the Troubles. Bombs, death threats and murder became a regular part of the day job. Working right at the heart of the conflict, police officers were often...
Cover of The Blue Cabin: Living by the Tides on Islandmore
by Michael Faulkner
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011

Following the collapse of his business, Michael Faulkner and his wife moved from Scotland to a cabin on Islandmore, an uninhabited island on Strangford Lough. With no mains electricity, an erratic water supply and access to the mainland only possible by boat, life on the island...
Cover of A Time to Speak
by Helen Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011

‘Helen Lewis survived the greatest nightmare ever dreamed by man. Her story is appalling, mesmerising, and one reads with increasing gratitude for her clarity, honesty and courage.’ Ian McEwan Helen Lewis, a young student of dance in Prague at the outbreak of WW2 was herded,...
Cover of Way to Go: Two of the World’s Great Motorcycle Journeys
by Geoff Hill
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2005

Way to Go brings together two epic motorcycle journeys, from Delhi to Belfast on a Royal Enfield, and from Chicago to LA on a Harley-Davidson. A thoughtful, hilarious, off-beat travelogue by award-winning journalist Geoff Hill. What the critics say about Geoff Hill’s travel writing...
Cover of In Clancy's Boots: The Greatest Ever Round-the-World Motorbike Adventure, Motorbike Adventures 4
by Geoff Hill
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013

In 1912, Carl Stearns Clancy undertook the longest, most difficult and most perilous journey ever attempted on a motorcycle. By June 1913 he had made history, becoming the first person ever to travel round the world on a motorbike. A century on, bestselling author and biker Geoff Hill recreates...
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