New Books imprint: 461 books
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 Carol Gébler
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2011
"Gébler is an overlooked novelist. The Dead Eight is one of the truest, least flashy, most human novels I have read for a long time." - The Telegraph "a book so rich in characterisation, so expertly paced and so well-written that it works equally well as absorbing social history and...
The Gods Never Left Us
The Long Awaited Sequel to the Worldwide Best-seller Chariots of the Gods
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
When Chariots of the Gods was published 50 years ago, it began a worldwide change in humanity’s view of the cosmos. In an era of the military space race, Erich von Däniken boldly proclaimed that Earth had been visited by more advanced beings early in our history. But prescientific man had no concept...
Deadly Confederacies
And Other Stories
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
From a teenager adjusting to a new world among relatives in 1970s Wales, to a man and his partner adjusting to a darker Ireland filled with unemployment, health scares and only dreams of a better future he brings the reader deep inside the minds and lives of his characters. In intimate prose and illuminating...
Diane Warner's Complete Guide to a Traditional Wedding
Time-Tested Toasts, Vows, Ceremonies & Etiquette: Everything You Need to Create Your Perfect Day
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
America’s best-selling wedding author, Diane Warner, has consolidated four of her most popular wedding books into one dynamic collection. This all-inclusive omnibus—featuring tender new vows, ever-more-creative toasts, and unique ways to personalize your wedding, whatever its size—is the only...
by Sorcha Pollak
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018
An inspiring chronological timeline of personal stories of migration, New to the Parish takes us on a journey across the globe – from Cameroon to Myanmar, Poland to New York, Nigeria to Venezuela, Iraq to Syria – and back home again.
These fourteen stories are given context by succinct...
by Charles Simic
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
A NEW YORK REVIEW E-BOOK ORIGINAL
As former U.S. poet laureate Charles Simic has said, the secret to our identities lies not in grand events, but in the parentheses between events--and in these brief essays, we get a taste of this great poet's parenthetical observations and recollections. He takes us...
The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
European history of the past century is full of examples of philosophers, writers, and scholars who supported or excused the worst tyrannies of the age. How was this possible? How could intellectuals whose work depends on freedom defend those who would deny it?
In profiles of six leading...
by Donal Fallon
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
A history book that looks at things from a different angle! Come Here To Me discusses everything from punk music and stand-up comedy venues to pirate radio stations and drug use in Dublin city. It talks about fire-fighters, newspaper boys, street gangs, gay bars and footballers, as well as our changing...
by Michael J. O'Loughlin
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
‘Something new is happening here and knows that it is happening. O’Loughlin manages to ride the surge of discourses and histories in order to arrive in the free literate domain of the achieved poem.’ - Seamus Heaney Michael O’Loughlin has earned an enduring reputation as one of Ireland’s...
The Cowshed
Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
The Chinese Cultural Revolution began in 1966 and led to a ten-year-long reign of Maoist terror throughout China, in which millions died or were sent to labor camps in the country or subjected to other forms of extreme discipline and humiliation. Ji Xianlin was one of them. The Cowshed is Ji’s harrowing...
No Ordinary Men
Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Hans von Dohnanyi, Resisters Against Hitler in Church and State
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
During the twelve years of Hitler’s Third Reich, very few Germans took the risk of actively opposing his tyranny and terror, and fewer still did so to protect the sanctity of law and faith. In No Ordinary Men, Elisabeth Sifton and Fritz Stern focus on two remarkable, courageous men who did—the...
Out of My Head
On the Trail of Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2019
Adventures in cutting-edge ideas about consciousness, from bestselling non-fiction writer Tim Parks.
Hardly a day goes by without some discussion about whether computers can be conscious, whether our universe is some kind of simulation, whether mind is a unique quality of human beings or spread...
A Question of Duty
The Curragh Incident 1914
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
As the world marched to war in 1914, the Army of the British Empire was secretly recovering from one of its most momentous events of its history. In the Curragh Army Camp in the rolling countryside of county Kildare, a senior British General and his officers had threatened to resign rather than deploy...