Noise & Sound Reflections now on audio Ironic as it may seem I am delighted to announce the publication in audio of my book, a meditation on noise narrated impeccably by Gareth Richards. What is noise? What happens when it…
Bridge of Clay Markus Zusak Doubleday €21.99 Markus Zusak, after critical and popular success with his debut novel The Book Thief, is reputed to have spent twelve years in writing the much-anticipated Bridge of Clay. It involves five Australian brothers,…
I will be reading some of my poems in Irish with English translations from my collection Rus in Urbe to mark International Poetry Day on 28th September in the company of other Irish and Latvian poets. It would be great…
Sorry, my last blog should read seventeenth anniversary not eighteenth.
It is the seventeenth anniversary of that terrible tragedy which impacted so much on American people and had its effects further afield on people globally, including many Irish-Americans. I tried to capture some of this heart-wrenching calamity in my novel…
Places I Stopped on the Way Home Meg Fee Icon Books £14.99 In this book, which is an emotional journey of her eleven formative years in New York city, Meg Fee describes herself as ‘a small universe in bloom’ and…
The Pharmacist’s Wife Vanessa Tait Corvus €15 When Rebecca Palmer’s first and true love Gabriel went away to foreign parts, she did not think she would hear from him again. Fearing she would be left an old maid at the…
When Laura was chosen as The New York Rose for the Rose of Tralee festival, she was twenty two. The choice was influenced no doubt by her Irish dancing ability and prowess in Gaelic—an American girl who could be an…
FINDING PENELOPE Thirty three year old romance novelist Penelope Eames moves to Spain to avoid her oppressive father and drug-addicted brother, Dermot. When she meets Ramón, a young Spanish school teacher, she is immediately attracted to him and feels the…
Wimbledon is upon us again and kids can be seen with tennis rackets playing in the streets. That’s how I started playing the game myself with a wooden racket and a well-worn tennis ball battered to death over the imaginary…