Ancient Light

Written by John Banville

Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-95705-4 (0-307-95705-5)

The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea gives us a brilliant, profoundly moving new novel about an actor in the twilight of his life and his career: a meditation on love and loss, and on the inscrutable immediacy of the past in our present lives.

Is there any difference between memory... Read more >

Dubliners

Written by James Joyce
Introduction by John Banville

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: August 14, 2012
Price: $10.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-8301-2 (0-8129-8301-7)

Read more >

On an Irish Island
The Lost World of the Great Blasket
Written by Robert Kanigel

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 26, 2013
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-38987-9 (0-307-38987-1)

On an Irish Island tells the remarkable story of a remote outpost nearly untouched by time in the first half of the twentieth century, and of the adventurous men and women who visited and were inspired by it.

In a love letter to a vanished way of life, Robert Kanigel brings to... Read more >

Ma, He Sold Me for a Few Cigarettes
A Memoir of Dublin in the 1950s
Written by Martha Long

Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 978-1-60980-414-5 (1-60980-414-7)

When Martha Long’s feckless mother hooks up with the Jackser (“that bandy aul bastard”), and starts having more babies, the abuse and poverty in the house grow more acute. Martha is regularly sent out to beg and more often steal, and her wiles (as a child of 7, 8) are often... Read more >