The Sinners' BellIn the distance a bell rang Somehow she knew that she was sharing an emotion with the vast city. Behind the ugly fronts, the dirty windows of countless houses, loneliness must be hidden away like cobwebs in dark corners. Helens expectations were far from starry eyed, but married life with Frank in the late 1960s seemed bewilderingly joyless; from the honeymoon in a seedy Paddington hotel complete with dirty linen and a nosy landlady, her new husband

Patrick Pye

It describes the pioneering buildings of the period and examines their intellectual scaffolding and the influence of international design movements

The Spirit of the River follows the mould of the great contemporary nature writers Robert Macfarlane

The Irish traders in beef and butter who settled in the Charente area moved on to the rapidly growing brandy trade by the mid-eighteenth century

Pages from the original manuscript

Conor McGregor

Denis Johnston

naive only child in his twenties

\n \n'I cannot imagine a literary editor today taking as much care with the submissions of the work of young writers as John Jordan did when he was editing Poetry Ireland

and his harrowing descriptions of tit-for-tat brutality in Northern Ireland’s most bloody region outside Belfast bear poignant witness to the tragedy of hatred between neighbours

this book is part memento mori

Eden Halt describes a childhood spent on a remote coast of Northern Ireland