New Island Books

Author Jan Brierton (based in Artane in Dublin), fashion stylist by trade, began writing out of frustration at her work drying up, and the need to juggle being a home-school teacher, playground chaperone, cook, cleaner and everything else, and the desire to be back with the people she loved. She ended up writing a poem the book takes its name from, which was championed by her friend Roisín Ingle in the Irish Times and went ‘viral’.

'Accidental poet' Jan Brierton returns with a brand-new book EVERYBODY IS A POEM. Taking its name from her popular podcast, EVERYBODY IS A POEM is a compact collection of poems about love, loss, aging, the mental load, menopause and everything in between.

Thrilling, disturbing, shocking and moving, Trouble Is Our Business: New Stories by Irish Crime Writers is a compulsive anthology of original stories by Ireland's best-known crime writers.

Part of the Open Door series of short books for emerging readers.

Part of the Open Door series of short books for emerging readers.

Newly commissioned short stories that explore and represent the lives of those living with dementia, unique in its diversity, depth and breadth of the dementia experience.

From Ireland, England, France, Austria, Greece, Turkey and Italy to America and the West Indies, overflowing with historic events, from the French Revolution to the Great Irish Famine, with a cast of the famous and infamous, Howe Peter Browne, 2nd Marquess of Sligo, lived life to the absolute limits.

A collection of short works by a huge range of playwrights from innovative theatre company Fishamble, charting changes in Irish society

Written, illustrated and compiled by Erin Darcy, In Her Shoes began as a grassroots art project online and quickly grew into a national conversation ahead of the 2018 referendum. In Her Shoes is the story of a changing social landscape, of an uprising within the author and within Ireland.

'Every town has marginalised figures, roaming the streets for so long as to be barely noticed. Anne Walsh Donnelly’s sublime achievement is to reclaim one such man’s past by allowing him space to articulate his story in a unique and fragmented manner. It allows decades of memories to unfold and his humanity to shine through in words that do justice to his suffering and to his deep love and longing for those whom he has lost.' ? Dermot Bolger

An engaging history of the Irish revolutionary period, now in paperback for the first time.