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This
is How You Disappear This is Reed’s most autobiographical book to date, and one in which he celebrates the dead and missing friends who were the formative and enduring influences on his life as a poet. Of his
Previous work. “An elegant stylist whose devotion to excess carries the reader along as he stunningly evokes life on the edge.”—Publishers Weekly
December 2007, 5½ x 8½, 80 pages (Enitharmon) |
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The
Last of the Name Charles McGlinchey (1861-1954), weaver and tailor, lived his entire life on the Inishowen Peninsula in Donegal. Never married, he outlived his brothers and sisters, none of whom left an heir and so he became ‘the last of the name’. On winter evenings in the 1940s and ‘50s, McGlinchey would talk about his life and times on visits with the local schoolmaster, who would carefully record his friend’s words. Thirty years later, those poignant, handwritten stories would be passed on to Brian Friel, who edited them into their present form. Here, filtered through a devoted schoolmaster and a master dramatist, is a voice that transports us to a period now beyond the grasp of living memory, an autobiography, a compendium of folklore and a vivid account of the life and times of a particular community in the north-west of Ireland.
November 2007, 5 x 8, 160 pages (Collins Press) |
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Under
the Dust Winner of the Premier Sant Jordi Prize Exploring a boy’s childhood in Barcelona during the Franco dictatorship, Under The Dust is based on the autobiographical experience of Catalan author Jordi Coca. The affecting closeness of the boy’s first-person narrative and its pitiless realism set this book apart. The boy’s bewildered responses to his father’s violence and authoritarianism are played out at home and in a neighborhood dominated by street gangs, where politics is never more than a block away.
2007, 5½ x 8½, 202 pages (Parthian) |
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Serious
Sounds A wonderful walk through the story of Moriarty’s childhood on a small farm in north Kerry, and his lifelong engagement with traditional Catholic sacraments, taking as his point of departure Philip Larkin’s poem ‘Church Going’—a richly meditative essay of extraordinary resonance that begins with a visit to the island of Inis Fallen on Loch Leine, Ireland. “Quintessentially Irish and universal.”—Irish News “Moriarty has drawn together the mysticism of [Australian aboriginals] with that of Christian Europeans.”—Irish Echo October 2007, 5½
x 8½, 64 pages (Lilliput) |
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Captain
Crozier Irishman
Francis Crozier was a major figure in the nineteenth-century polar explorations.
Rejecting his privileged background, he joined the navy during the Napoleonic
wars and captained the Terror in the first charting of the Antarctic.
2006, 6 x 9, 300 pages (Collins Press)
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Stranger on Earth This biography of novelist Anna Kavan, draws on newly discovered material about a visionary writer who renamed herself after a character in one of her own novels and did everything she could to resist biography. It documents Kavan’s addiction to heroin, her failed marriages, her bond with her psychiatrist, her suicide attempts, her strange, unforgettable paintings, her devotion to gay men, her obsessions, phobias, reclusiveness, and indomitable artistic courage. Of Reed’s
biographical fiction of the Marquis de Sade, When the Whip Comes Down:
2006, 5½ x 8½, 212 pages (Peter Owen) |