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This is an extraordinary account of an extraordinary time in Northern Ireland's history by the Irish correspondent of the Independent. These pieces cover the events of the past three years, including the violence and political turbulence of 1996 to 1998, the two IRA ceasefires, the loyalist cessation of violence, the Good Friday Agreement, the Drumcree confrontations, and the devastating bombing at Omagh. David McKittrick is the author of a nu...

Set in exotic locations - an opulent house in Brussels, the boutiques of Paris, the islands of the Caribbean and the beaches of St Tropez - this is a novel full of glamour, intrigue and romance.

Sam Hanna Bell (1909-1990) is known primarily for his novel of Ulster rural life, December Bride (1951). It was filmed in 1990 and was selected for Picador's The Modern Library: The 200 Best Novels in English since 1950, where they described it as "a book which everyone interested in modern fiction should read, it shows what can still be done". His other novels, including The Hollow Ball, A Man Flourishing, and Across the Narrow Sea, were all ...

An eerie phone call from his father puzzles Tom McDermott, a New York magazine editor. Shortly after, he learns that his father's body has been found on a beach near his home on the north Atlantic coast of Ireland. Forced to visit Ireland to sort out the funeral arrangements, Tom discovers the land of his forebears for the first time--the wild beauty of land and seas, the warmth of the people, and the undercurrents of age-old divisions. He beg...

Martin is a young Irishman intoxicated by the extremism of decadent French literature and by Clare, a young Irishwoman intoxicated by the demonic luster of the young man. Over the years, he loses his luster in the grind of teaching, marriage, and child-rearing, while she grows in maturity and confidence. Always attracted to bad boys, she eventually takes on a younger English rebel as lover, thus completing the education sentimentale of her hus...

Twenty-three-year-old, British soldier Stephen Restorick was killed by an IRA sniper's bullet on February 12, 1997, while he manned a checkpoint in Northern Ireland. This book is the moving testimony of his story and the aftermath told by his remarkable mother, Rita. Written in a direct, spare style with no hint of self-pity, the book nevertheless conveys, with almost unbearable poignancy, the intense grief that became, for Rita Restorick, a p...