Current Publications

Treasures of the Unconscious - A Collection of Poems by Niall McGrath

McGrath's second collection makes the everyday ‘strange’ through intensity of perception. ...read more

Reflections in a Tar Barrel by Jack Harte

Jack Harte's latest novel tells the story of Lofty, a supposed half-wit from the West of Ireland, who embarks on a campaign to thwart the designs of the Creator who has dealt him such a poor hand. Combining the role of hawker in religious goods and keeper of a mobile brothel, his untutored mind arrives at his own mystical insights. ...read more

Diacatholicon by Michael Phillips with graphics by Henry Sharpe

A collection of stories by a writer with a unique vision - illustrated by an artist similarly unique in vision and execution. This volume resurrects the stories that made such a shocking impact in 1970s Dublin, as well as some previously unpublished pieces. ...read more

Black PR and other acts by Toma Markov

Toma Markov is one of Bulgaria’s leading poets, and one of the most colourful characters writing in Eastern Europe today. He has won, amongst many prizes, the Bulgarian National Prize for Poetry in 2000. This collection is translated into English by Theodora Nikolaeva. ...read more

SERAGLIO 55 by Georgy Pryakhin

'Seraglio 55' is a sequence of sketches based on Georgy Pryakhin's experiences traveling around the world and through life. Pryakhin is one of Russia's most important writers and has been a major personality in political life since the Soviet period. ...read more

In the wake of the Bagger by Jack Harte

This first novel by the master storyteller, which has been acclaimed as 'one of the great books about Ireland', is at once a social document and a meditation on change. It is the enthralling story of the Dowd family who are uprooted from their home in Killeenduff, Co Sligo, to re-settle as economic migrants in the Midlands. ...read more

The Big Pampering by Vergil Nemchev

A collection of stories from a young award-winning Bulgarian writer. ...read more

Lighthouse by Colm McHugh

Lighthouse is a first collection of poems from a new voice on the Irish literary scene. It is a voice of quiet intelligence, orchestrating the rhythms of everyday life into a poetry that continues to resonate in the mind. ...read more

Scarecrows at Newtownards by Celia de Fréine

First volume of poetry in English by the Patrick Kavanagh Award winner who has published two acclaimed volumes in the Irish language. ...read more

Lament for the Birds (CD) by Jack Harte

This CD of stories and songs, thematically structured and integrated, features the author reading some of his stories set in his native Sligo, and Sligo singer/musician, Carmel Gunning, singing his lyrics and playing the traditional airs to which the songs were set. ...read more

From under Gogol's Nose by Jack Harte

This selection of stories demonstrates Harte's extraordinary versatility as he sets out to explore the possibilities of the short-story form. ...read more