Ellen Morris is confident, beautiful, bright and educated. Early in 1925, she accepts a teaching post in a rural, misty village. There the young city girl meets two men who will radically transform her. One is the handsome and respected Thomas Kane, a former gunman hero of the Troubles; the other a poor and brutal cottage-dweller, a shadowy and menacing presence. Ellen soons finds that she must conform to the traditions of the local community and toe the rural Irish line, live by the local codes. Beset by violence and turbulent emotion, Ellen rejects the hypocrisy of her religion and plunges into natural instinct, avenging what she sees as the sins of Mother Ireland and Holy Mother Church.

The Sins of the Mothers

Literature & Fiction

FRANK DELANEY

Contemporary

HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd

A stranger in their midst

Harpercollins

Amethysts

HARPER/COLLINS

At Ruby's

New thriller from one of Britain's most skilled and wide-ranging novelists, featuring Nicholas Newman, the hero of The Amethysts, the pscyhological thriller acclaimed by the Sunday Telegraph as 'harrowing, absorbing ...unforgettable' and Pearl.

Telling the Pictures

The Amethysts

Harper

During a holiday to recover from the brutal death of his lover Madeleine, English architect Nicholas Newman discovers an unexpected link to her death in a Hungarian couple's photo, a small amethyst carving. He is soon thrust into a violent evil that leads back to the Holocaust.

The second in the Amethyst series of novels that explore the genesis of evil, as expressed in Nazi Germany, and mean to discover how it can survive or thrive in a civilized world. As protagonist, a very civilized (perhaps overly civilized) architect named Nicholas Newman. Pearl takes us into World Class International Soccer and the skin-head fans, manipulated and used by men who require unrest and fear to fuel their power. Terrifying. Brutal. Very strong stuff.Very much "Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" before it existed, these three books garnered huge attention, best-seller status and great respect in Europe in the 1990's but thought to be too violent for our sensibilities, they were never published in the USA.

Pearl

Re-creates Joyce's Dublin of the early twentieth century, comparing it with the modern city, with detailed maps that follow the routes of the principal charachers of "Ulysses" in their travels around Dublin

James Joyce's Odyssey: A Guide to the Dublin of Ulysses

Travel

Europe

Henry Holt Co.

This travel book retraces Samuel Johnson and James Boswell's journey through Scotland and its Western Isles in the autumn of 1773. The book tells in some part the history of Scotland in the 18th century and today, of the people of the Highlands and islands then and now, their history, their whisky distilleries, the Loch Ness monster, their literature and songs, their food and hospitality, their lochs and harbours and sea-sounds - all observed via a stream of anecdotes. Johnson's book "A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland" and Boswell's book "Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson" are compared throughout.

A WALK TO THE WESTERN ISLES: AFTER BOSWELL AND JOHNSON

Classics

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The Sins of the Mothers

A stranger in their midst

Amethysts

At Ruby's

Telling the Pictures

The Amethysts

The Amethysts

Pearl

James Joyce's Odyssey: A Guide to the Dublin of Ulysses

A WALK TO THE WESTERN ISLES: AFTER BOSWELL AND JOHNSON