Catherine was the sister of Christian; in WW2 she worked with the French Resistance but was arrested in 1944 and sent to Ravensbrück. Miraculously she survived, and was awarded both the Cro... read more
Born in Dublin in 1934, McGahern has corresponded with all his contemporary Irish writers. The letters are wonderful, and form a snapshot of late C20 Irish literature.
Following his much-praised Greece: The Biography of a Modern Nation, RB turns towards the global influence of Greek history and culture, from the Mycenaeans to the modern-day Greek diaspora.
A reprint of her sensational 1941 memoir from the frontline of wartime Europe. She wrote from Madrid during the Spanish Civil War; Paris as it fell to the Germans; London during the Blitz: b... read more
A powerfully written novel about a sculptor facing the end of her life, sexual chemistry, confinement and the transformative power of art. The other actor (apart from her new lover) in the n... read more
It's the shortest, coldest day of the year and Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant in a small Irish town, busies himself with the last few deliveries. An elegant and carefully distilled... read more
The Nobel Prize winner's new novel is set against the backdrop of the 1954 CIA-backed military coup against the putatively pro-communist Guatemalan government: a story of high politics, corr... read more
The melancholic pathologist Quirke and the Dublin detective St. John Stafford find themselves at work in a sun-dappled San Sebastián. Previously Banville published the Quirke crime series p... read more