IRISH PAGES

Second Edition. A true 18th century story about an extraordinary man, Captain George Glass, and his very brave wife, Catherine.

This long-awaited selection of essays and reviews from one of Ireland's leading critics and essayists brings together a wealth of reflection, observation and astute literary comment. It ranges in time from William Carleton to Edna O'Brien, and in subject matter from recent Irish poetry to ghosts, children's books and MI5.

John F. Deane and James Harpur have devoted their lives to writing about the mysteries of existence and the divine. This selection of their poems displays how each poet has probed and described his journey in search of ultimate truth.

Invisible Woman and Other Stories takes us on an intimate journey of ageing, from the shock of catching a glimpse of ourselves in the mirror as others see us to the actual slipping away of the self.

Translations in Scots and English by Brian Holton

Shadows Behind the Dance is Maddy Tongue's heartfelt portrait of the dancer and teacher Helen Lewis (1916 - 2009, ne Helena Katz), who survived Auschwitz to teach dance in Belfast.

Ben Dorain: A Conversation with a Mountain draws on the work of an eighteenth-century Gaelic poem by Duncan Ba n MacIntyre, rendering it into English.Where it does so, this is not to present MacIntyre's poetry per se to an English-language reader, as is customary with a translation or version.