An Irish Independent Book of the Year.As the great John McGahern used to say, there's verse, and there's prose, and then there's poetry; William Wall is a poet in both mediums' John Banville.'An underrated veteran at the peak of his powers' Sunday Times.'It's this mood of lives irreparably spoiled that make this bitter-tasting tale so potent' Daily Mail.Grace and her mother and sis...

William Wall is the first international winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize.In this collection of interconnected stories, the beautiful and ravaging forces of sea and land collide with the forces of human nature, through isolation and family, love and loss, madness and revelation. The stories follow the lives of two sisters and the people who come and go in their lives, much like the tides. Dominated by the tragic loss of a third sister at a young age, their ...

Here's the perfect method to selling your home. Get prepared. Ask questions and get good answers so you can make the best decisions to get the highest price for your home.Sounds easy doesn't it. It's not, until now. Do you know what to ask your agent, the buyer's agent, the inspector, the appraiser, the surveyor, and the closing agent? "How can I get answers to make decisions when I don't even know what to ask?" That is the question we hear from ev...

Joe Lyons has never had much success with relationships until he meets Suzie, a young music teacher. Living a solitary existence as a writer, he's alienated his mother with his autobiographical first novel and has little to say to his stridently religious sister, Mary. Only his father keeps in regular touch. But now, in the warmth of this new love, the happy endings finally seem to outnumber the tragedies. So when news comes that his mother is seriously ill, he returns home, but what he fi...

Selling Your House? Here's The Problem.Whether you are a first time home seller or selling a home for the 5th time, you usually contact a friend in real estate and hopefully they will guide you through the process while it happens. If that's your strategy, there is a better way. Accountability is the new normal. You must be accountable to yourself and be your own real estate advocate. Get to know what you deserve and are entitled t...

In an Ireland far removed from the familiar images of travel brochures, a bright teenager is heading for trouble: son of a single mother who has given up, rarely at school, taking drugs, and hovering on the fringes of the city's criminal underworld.When he falls for Pat The Baker's sister his life changes irrevocably, not least because when she gets pregnant, Pat breaks his legs. But as he tries to make a new start and adjust to being a lover and father, he realises he cannot evade...

Having questions is great. Knowing the answers makes it perfect.Do you have 10, 20, or even 50 questions ready to go for the buying process? We start you off with over 100 specific questions all buyers should ask of their real estate professionals. We even give you the answers you should receive. How nice is that?In this book, we give you the exact questions to ask and the answers you should be receiving, all in one resource.The Perfect Buyer is your guide t...

Fighting off the boredom of lockdown, acclaimed author Jim Winter decides to share his skills by setting up an anonymous online writing workshop – but his generosity will cost him more than he knows.Right away, the work of a talented student known only as Deirdre stands out. Her novel concerns the death of Mattie Lantry, a lonely seventeen-year-old found murdered in the now-distant summer of 1980, in the local cemetery of his quiet fishing town. The writing is brilliant, but there'...

ARE YOU READY TO SELL? LET’S FIND OUT!When you decide to sell your home, why do people turn to their friends for the name of a good real estate agent? Where do you start and who do you trust? It all changed in the new normal.If this is your starting point, there is a better way. I WANT TO SELL MY HOUSE – NOW WHAT? will give you a clear advantage when you decide to take the step to sell your home. Do you know what comes next?In this ...

The 1st of a 2-book series (THE VARIAN DISASTER to follow) tells the fictional saga of an actual barbarian Legionary, later a Roman citizen, and later still an equestrian knight, who led a coalition of tribal warriors to victory in a famous battle that annihilated three entire Roman legions. Certain contemporary historians revere this distant figure from the shadows of European antiquity as a liberating crusader, others as, “The noble savage gone wrong.” This tale of Imperial Rome and anci...

"Be fruitful," advises Judeo-Christian Scripture, "and multiply, and replenish the earth." Eight centuries BCE global population is inferred to have been roughly five millions, soaring to between 50 and 60 millions when Julius Caesar fell, and escalating in the mid-17th century to about half a billion. A significant benchmark of one billion, reached circa 1804, doubled in 123 years to 2 billions by 1927, and to 3 billions in 1960. Only 14 years later, in 1974, 4 billions crowded the world,...

Chin Zhonghua Renmin Gonghehuo, the Peoples Republic of China, achieves a late 21st century technological triumph with a "Great Leap Upward," the deployment of a "space elevator" rising from an equatorial mountain peak in Kalimantan to an enormous microgravity production satellite in geosynchronous orbit, and on starward to a spacecraft inertial launch and retrieval complex. This radical, innovative system permits the importation of lunar and orbital hard goods at negligible cost, creating...