The Good Listener. Helen Bamber: A Life Against Cruelty - Neil Belton
Neil Belton was born in Ireland and educated at University College, Dublin. Since 1996 he has been the publishing director of Granta Books and lives in London where he began a career in publishing, working as an editor for Verso, Hutchinson Radius and Jonathan Cape. This is his first book. He met Helen Bamber through John McCarthy and Brian Keenan, former Beirut hostages, when he edited Keenan's memoir An Evil Cradling.
The Good Listener: A Life Against Cruelty is published by Orion Publishing Group
James Joyce - Edna O'Brien
Edna O'Brien was born in Co Clare. She studied at the Pharmaceutical College of Dublin, and practised pharmacy briefly before becoming a writer. Her books include The Country Girls, Girls in Their Married Bliss, August is a Wicked Month and A Pagan Place. The Collected Edna O'Brien, containing nine novels, was published in 1978. Later works include Time and Tide (1992), House of Splendid Isolation (1994), and Down by the River (1996). Her short stories are also highly regarded, a selection from several collections appearing in The Frantic Heart (1985), and in 1990 she brought out Lantern Slides. Her latest novel, Wild Decembers, is published this month.
James Joyce is published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson
44: A Dublin Memoir - Peter Sheridan
Peter Sheridan was born in Dublin in 1952 and has spent most of his adult life writing, directing and collaborating in the theatre. His plays have been seen in Ireland, London, Montreal, New York and Los Angeles. He was awarded the Rooney Prize for Literature in 1977 and was writer-in-residence at the Abbey Theatre in 1980. Recent theatre credits include The Risen People (codirected with Jim Sheridan), and Brighton Beach Memoirs. His screenplays for TV include Mobile Homes and Shades of the Jelly Woman. E. He wrote the pilot episode of RTE's Fair City, and remained as lead writer for two seasons. His screenplays include The Bells of Hell, The Maggies Strumpet City.
44 - A Dublin Memoir is published by Macmillan, March 1999