Blackstaff Press Ltd: 69 books

When thirty-six-year-old working mum Penny came to see gynaecologist Jim Dornan about her premenstrual symptoms, she was at the end of her tether. In Coping with PMT, Jim discusses the physical effects of modern family planning, the contraceptive pill and hormone therapy, and you’ll discover...

‘I write to try to see you as you were, or what you have become. You left no forwarding address: that was part of your intention. For when we wrote those letters to each other all those years ago, we wrote as much for ourselves as for each other.’ More than twenty years after the end of...

All over Ireland there are oul fellas putting the world to rights. They've little patience for the ogeous handlins they find themselves in; they bemoan the clatty days when it's teemin' out of the heavens; they tongue and hash about the price of things; and they try to avoid...

‘His tact and pacing, in the individual sentence and the overall story, are beautiful … McLaverty’s place in our literature is secure.’ Seamus Heaney Michael McLaverty, one of Ireland’s most important short story writers, painted with acute precision and intensity...

Belfast, 1939, and Martha’s daughters are beginning to make their way in the world. Irene, the eldest, is on the lookout for a new job and romance. She is torn between Sean O’Hara – wanted by the police for something he didn’t do – and RAF radio engineer Sandy, serving in India. Pat...

The Pony Palace is the best riding school ever, and Sophie, Ben and Jamie are never happier than when they are practicing showjumping or trotting through the countryside with their favourite ponies Skippy, Parsley and Rupert. Preparations are underway at the stables for a very special event that...

Join all the gang at the Pony Palace and find your new PFF. The Pony Palace is the best riding school ever, but new boy Oskar is finding it hard to fit in. He’s trying his best to make friends with Hannah and Claire and to learn how to ride. It doesn’t...

Neil Powell has been a dog handler for more than forty years and the dogs in his charge (breeds including the Alsatian, bloodhound, retriever and Labrador) have participated in every kind of search and rescue: from daring mountaineering rescues in the Mourne Mountains to helping to find victims...

Waterford Whispers News is Ireland’s leading online satirical site – Ireland’s answer to The Onion. The site shot to notoriety in January 2014 when it ran a spoof story about North Korea sending a rocket to the sun. The story went viral and was picked up as genuine by a number of mainstream...

Delivering babies, caring for women, a lifetime’s work In An Everyday Miracle, eminent obstetrician and gynaecologist Jim Dornan gives a unique insight into the world of pregnancy, birth and women’s health. Drawing on his forty-year career, he talks openly and at times controversially about...

'And yes, I was a sixty-year-old man who wanted to be young again, and that’s laughable for there is no turning back the years, but I didn’t think it was funny. I wasn’t going to try and win the Tour de France. But I was going to try to do what I had been able to do at thirty. I was going to...

‘Milltown has much to tell us about Belfast’s chequered past, whatever our religion or politics. Our history is bigger than our tribe.’ Milltown Cemetery, the burying ground for the Catholic community in Belfast for almost 150 years, is one of Belfast’s most...

‘In 1985, I went to live on the other side of the peace line. Everyone said my head was cut. It was the summer of Live Aid and Bob Geldof pledged to save Africa from hunger. My ambitions were more modest. I wanted to stop the violence between Catholics and Protestants in Belfast.’  Driven...

It’s the biggest thing to hit Ulster since the recession, and now the Facebook sensation is in print for the first time. Pure Derry brings you local and world satire from Derry – the self-appointed centre of the universe. Featuring the best bits from the Facebook page...