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Mon, May 21, 2012Business thinking between the covers
- Revolutionary road: the 1916 leaders
Sat, May 19, 2012 BIOGRAPHY: Michael Mallin By Brian Hughes The O’Brien Press, 256pp €11.99. Joseph Plunkett By Honor Ó Brolcháin The O’Brien Press, 431pp €11.99. James Connolly By Lorcan Collins The O’Brien Press, 352pp €11.99. - Gazing into the heart of the past
Sat, May 19, 2012 TRAVEL : A Journey to Nowhere By Jean-Paul Kauffmann, translated by Euan Cameron Maclehose Press, 267pp. £18.99 - Skeletons under our feet
Sat, May 19, 2012 LOCAL HISTORY: THE MAKING OF a city is an amazing process. Seeing the way that buildings, big personalities and the efforts of citizens come together to form its beginnings is fascinating. - Know your enemy
Sat, May 19, 2012 HISTORY: Under Every Leaf: How Britain Played the Greater Game from Afghanistan to Africa By William Beaver Biteback, 341pp. £20 - Amongst McGahernites in Co LeitrimSat, May 19, 2012 LOOSE LEAVES: The historian Diarmaid Ferriter will give the keynote lecture at this year's international seminar on John McGahern, which takes place from next Thursday to Saturday at venues in and around Carrick-on-Shannon, Co Leitrim.
- Browser
Sat, May 19, 2012Fiction & Nonfiction
- Attacking down the left wing
Sat, May 19, 2012 SPORT : Barbaric Sport: A Global Plague By Marc Perelman Verso, 128pp. £8.99 - Booked
Mon, May 14, 2012Business thinking between the covers
- Renton and Begbie: back on the train gang
Sat, May 12, 2012 FICTION: Irvine Welsh’s prequel to ‘Trainspotting’ is an uneasy hybrid, but it has a firmer grasp of the social forces that keep the gang at the bottom of the food chain - The ties that bind us
Sat, May 12, 2012 ANTHROPOLOGY: Institutions such as marriage may have changed hugely, but this bestselling study suggests our social connections are as strong as ever - Antigone in Afghanistan
Sat, May 12, 2012 FICTION: A striking new novel draws inspiration from classical literature to paint a vivid portrait of modern war - Elmore Leonard talks the talk
Sat, May 12, 2012 CRIME BEAT: RAYLAN (Weidenfeld Nicolson, £18.99) is the third Elmore Leonard novel to feature the Kentucky-based US marshal Raylan Givens, after Pronto (1993) and Riding the Rap (1995). It is essentially a novelisation of the television series Justified, which is cowritten by Leonard. - Browser nonfiction
Sat, May 12, 2012 The Time Has Come: Ger McDonnell – His Life and Death on K2, By Damien O’Brien The Collins Press, £17.99 The title of this book has two meanings. On August 1st, 2008, Limerick-born Ger McDonnell became the first Irishman to conquer K2, possibly the most dangerous mountain in the world. The next day, a cascading series of avalanches killed the robust 37-year-old and 10 other international climbers. Several of them, including McDonnell, found themselves stranded on the higher slopes after their fixed ropes were torn away and there was no comparatively safe way down from the “zone of death”. - Teanga agus trioblóidíSat, May 12, 2012 IRISH LANGUAGE: ONE OF THE MORE disturbing aspects of the language debate – or, more often, argument – is the way in which those who have no interest in Irish characterise those who do as “fanatics” or, almost as bad, “enthusiasts”. We speak English, goes the line, and have no need to spend time or money on a “dead” language. (It says much about contemporary Irish values that having two cars, two homes or two holidays abroad is good while having two languages is bad.)
- BookedMon, May 7, 2012Business thinking between the covers
- A bitter pill, magnificently sugared
Sat, May 5, 2012 FICTION: Pure By Timothy Mo Turnaround Books, 388pp. £16.99 - Pogue and tell, warts and all
Sat, May 5, 2012 MEMOIR: James Fearnley’s memoir of life in The Pogues is a lively, humorous account of rock’n’roll success, excess and survival - Assault on Achill
Sat, May 5, 2012 HISTORY: In 1894 a Protestant landowner, Agnes MacDonnell, was maimed in a vicious attack by a local man, James Lynchehaun, on Achill Island. How did he escape justice and become a political folk hero? - Don't read this. Just buy the book
Sat, May 5, 2012 FICTION: HHhH By Laurent Binet Harvill Secker, 327pp. £16.99
