Island Books: 261 books
by Geraldine Mills
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Esper and Starn are twin boys who live in a grim world that has been almost laid waste by massive volcanic explosions. Very little grows in Orchard, which used to be a fruit-growing area, but with the death of insects and birds, pollination of the fruit trees is a tedious and precarious undertaking....
The House on Parkgate Street
And Other Dublin Stories
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
A child wandering alone through a racecourse; an elderly lady grasping at a thread of memory; a young girl watching prostitutes from her window as they ply their trade; an Indian taxi driver living in his cab: these are some of the fractured lives and fragile hearts we meet in The House on Parkgate...
Swan Sinks
SS Cygnet Sunk by Italian Submarine Enrico Tazzoli, San Salvador, Bahamas in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2017
The human element of a relatively small incident like the loss of the relatively small, 3530-ton Cygnet, is both compelling and illustrative of the larger, global struggle. The ship itself had served the US government in World War I, and run between Europe and South America for decades. Built Dutch,...
An Accidental Diplomat:
My Years in the Irish Foreign Service 1987-95
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2001
John Le Carre meets Bill Bryson with a touch of yes, Minister' - The Irish Times Eamon Delaney's controversial Number 1 bestselling exposé of backstage life at the Department of Foreign Affairs . From the lonely nights at the Soviet Desk to glamorous soirées during Ireland's presidency of the emerging...
The Pillar
The Life and Afterlife of the Nelson Pillar
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
On 8 March 1966, Irish republicans blew up Dublin’s Nelson Pillar, which had stood for over 150 years, irrevocably changing the landscape of the city. No monument in the history of Ireland has proven quite as controversial as the Nelson Pillar on O'Connell Street. The story of the Pillar and its...
by Paul Charles
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
'A beautifully written novel about smalltown secrets and the mysteries of the human heart. The Lonesome Heart is Angry may just be Paul Charles's best book yet.' - John Connolly What seems like a routine job for the matchmaker, Michael Gilmour, in a 1960s small Northern Irish town becomes something...
by Eric Wiberg
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
There are selections from the front page of the Nassau Tribune, immediately following Hurricane Andrew, an article about falling overboard from a yacht in a snow storm in Cruising World, and an essay in The Concord Review of History (published when the author was 18), the Bahamas Historical Society...
Tanker Disasters
IMO's Places of Refuge and the Special Compensation Clause; Erika, Prestige, Castor and 65 Casualties
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Written in fulfillment of a Master's in Marine Affairs Degree at the University of Rhode Island in 2005, this is the harrowing tale of some 70 vessels over the past 30 years who have found themselves distressed at sea and begged coastal states for a safe place to stabilize their problems. As this...
New Planet Cabaret
An Anthology of New Writing from Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2013
I believe in the value and vitality of every piece of writing in this book. I hope you enjoy the whole array of it. I hope it inspires you, as the New Planet Cabaret always intends, to be excellently different yourself. Dave Lordan, Editor In December 2012, New Island and RTÉ Radio One’s ARENA...
Without Power Or Glory
The Greens In Government
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
The inside story of the Green party’s role in the government that brought Ireland into the IMF Bailout. This is the first insider account from a senior Green Party leader describing events from before the 2007 election through the trauma of the bank bailout and defeat in the 2011 General Election....
by Mary Lavin
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2011
Happiness is perhaps the most cherished of all the acclaimed collections by Mary Lavin, who was not just one of Ireland's major writers, but ranked among the greatest short-story writers of the twentieth century in the English language. The stories in this classic collection explore the relationships...
by David Blake Knox
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
There are nine breeds of dog that are native to Ireland: four terriers, three gun dogs, and two hounds. In The Curious History of Irish Dogs, David Blake Knox tells the remarkable stories of each of the nine breeds, and reveals how they have become inextricably linked to the human beings with whom...
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,...
Heroes of Jadotville
The Soldiers' Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
"It is a pity that we, who never believed in the use of force, must suffer for the blunders of little dictators and stupid military leaders...We did not come here to shoot Africans, we came to help them...I was not prepared to let my brave men die for nothing." - Comdt Patrick Quinlan, Jadotville,...