The Sea

Written by John Banville

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 15, 2006
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-9702-9 (1-4000-9702-9)

****WINNER OF THE 2005 MAN BOOKER PRIZE****

Max is a middle-aged Englishman, a writer and self-described dilettante who has been supported by his wife's money. Now, after his wife's recent death, Max has gone back to the seaside town where he lived as a child—a retreat from the grief, anger, and numbness... Read more >

All Will Be Well

Written by John McGahern

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 8, 2007
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7986-5 (1-4000-7986-1)

From award-winning author John McGahern, a memoir of his childhood in the Irish countryside and the beginnings of his life as a writer.

McGahern describes his early years as one of seven children growing up in rural County Leitrim, a childhood was marked by his father’s violent nature and the early death... Read more >

The Complete Novels of Flann O'Brien

Written by Flann O'Brien
Introduction by Keith Donohue

Format: Hardcover, 824 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-26749-8 (0-307-26749-0)

Flann O’Brien, along with Joyce and Beckett, is part of the holy trinity of modern Irish literature. His five novels–collected here in one volume–are a monument to his inspired lunacy and gleefully demented genius.

O’Brien’s masterpiece, At Swim-Two-Birds, is an exuberant literary send-up and one of the funniest novels of the twentieth... Read more >

Stones of Aran: Labyrinth

Written by Tim Robinson
Introduction by John Elder

Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $22.95
ISBN: 978-1-59017-314-5 (1-59017-314-7)

Pilgrimage, the first volume of Tim Robinson’s extraordinary account of walking and mapping çirann–the largest of the Aran islands off the west coast of Ireland–describes his circuit of the island’s coast. At the end of that book, he turns to the interior of çirann, noting that “for a book to stand... Read more >

Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage

Written by Tim Robinson
Introduction by Robert Macfarlane

Format: Trade Paperback, 316 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: August 5, 2008
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-1-59017-277-3 (1-59017-277-9)

The Aran Islands, in Galway Bay off the west coast of Ireland, are a unique geological and cultural landscape, and for centuries their stark beauty and their inhabitants’ traditional way of life have attracted pilgrims from abroad. The Aran Islands, in Galway Bay off the west coast of Ireland, are a... Read more >

Stalking Irish Madness
Searching for the Roots of My Family's Schizophrenia
Written by Patrick Tracey

Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: August 26, 2008
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-80525-3 (0-553-80525-8)

In Stalking Irish Madness, Tracey delves into the roots of his family's long history of schizophrenia, a journey that reveals a largely unknown facet of Irish history--a mental illness that is traceable back into the prehistory of Celtic myth and Irish folklore.

Schizophrenia, which literally means "splitting in the mind," is a... Read more >