Bird in the SnowBird in the Snow follows twenty four hours in the life of Birdie Waters. On the eve of burying her only son, she stays awake all night, examining old photographs, cherishing memories of Gussie and her beloved late husband, Alex a vet who married her because her dancing ability eclipsed the class difference between them. She recalls Gussies tragic death, his failed romance, and Louise, who for a while looked like the partner that might make her son

and dealing with a funeral (not a good time to network)

[Patrick] Kavanagh has come and gone: like the monsoon

since his death in a car crash in1964

Love is war

among them the novelist Jennifer Johnston

North American and African histories

It describes the life and surroundings of an only child raised in an unorthodox household within a close-knit society ruled by the twin empires of Castle and Church haunted by the lure of foreignness and the pain of exile

Grattan made a dramatic political comeback as a Westminster MP

naive only child in his twenties

show Mac Intyre to be one of the most daringly and excitingly original Irish writers working today

part autobiography

The Pilgrimage returns as a startlingly modern portrait of desire