Microbes - microscopic organisms which live in and on us - are essential to the development of human life. Gastroenterologist Fergus Shanahan and graphic design artist Laura Gowers shed light on the microbial world and suggest ways in which we can protect and nurture microbes in the face of the climate emergency.
Barney McKenna - "Banjo Barney from Donnycarney" - was one of the founder-members of the Dubliners, the world-famous Irish folk musicians and singers who in 2002 celebrated forty years on the road as a band. For Dubliners fans, Barney's name immediately conjures up the image of the burly, bearded banjo genius whodazzled the audience with his virtuosity while charming them with his folksy, no-nonsense personality. However, Barney was also well known for another reason: he was capable of bringing any conversation to a sudden stop by uttering something so completely unexpected, and at the same time so incomprehensible, as to reduceeveryone present to a bemused silence. These surreal verbal gems, collected in this book, have become known simply as "Barneyisms".
I must get married, and I will, nineteen-year-old Evelyn decides. It is 1969. Evelyn is pregnant. Around her, the staid values of an older Ireland still rule. "Decently" married, she finds herself beset by doubts about her love for her husband Liam, and the temptations posed by other men. In interlinked stories, we follow Evelyn through her marriage, and the birth of her children, to the break-up of the hard-worked-at union - and into the beginnings of a new relationship. Poignant storytelling from a wonderful writer.
Plane hijackings. Spy swaps. The Berlin Wall still standing. In other words, business as usual for spies.
An award-winning, burnt out writer is visited by the characters he is researching while writing a book about the assassination of President James Garfield.
A collection of short stories - from the sublime to the ridiculous.
A literate, satisfying work of fiction which crosses Richard Ford with Kinky Friedman, with a noir undercurrent.
An evolutionary history of human nature makes the case for kindness as the key to survival.
A compelling new collection of poetry from one of Ireland's up-and-coming poets.
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