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| HERE’S HOW:
SMART SOLUTIONS FROM WILLIAM CAMPBELL
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 | Launched by Minister Ciaran Cuffe on 13 May, the author interviewed on Newstalk’s Breakfast Show the same day, with an article by the author in the Irish Examiner on 15 May, HERE’S HOW is a dynamic stimulating response to Ireland’s current economic and social crisis.
Here’s what some commentators have already said about it:
“Full of clear thinking, good ideas and smart solutions.”
Pat Leahy, Political Editor, Sunday Business Post
"Here's How is not written by an academic or an economics media pundit. And this is where its strengths are. Campbell's book offers a pragmatic, business-minded analysis of the past and an encouragingly diverse set of policies that can take us into a better future. No 'professional' economics commentator in Ireland has come this close to actually producing a functional map for getting us out of this mess.”
Dr Constantin Gurdgiev, economist, Trinity College, Dublin.
“I love the questions he asks, and his approach to finding answers to them, and the annoyance these answers will give…. because it’s only when you question aggressively what passes for policy and the status quo that you can hope to flush out self-interest masquerading as concern for the public good.”
Moore McDowell, economist, University College, Dublin
For more information, go to www.Here’sHow.ie
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| | MAKING IT IN NEW YORK | | In a freezing cold New York, Larry Kirwan’s brand new novel, Rockin’ the Bronx, was launched on Thursday 11 February at the Glucksman Ireland House in Manhattan.
Already it is getting great reviews:
“[A] brilliant tale set in the gritty streets of the Yankee borough that was the epicenter of Irish Americana during the early Eighties.” Irish Voice (New York)
“Rockin' the Bronx is alternately hilarious and moving. This story of young Irish immigrants in New York is about music, drinking, sex, drugs, the IRA and much more. Most of all it's people trying to figure out who they are and where they belong.” Sandy Boyer, WBAI Radio (New York)
Larry Kirwan will give readings from Rockin’ the Bronx at Barnes & Noble, TriBeCa, 97 Warren Street, New York on 8 March;
at the Book Revue on Long Island on 10 March;
and in Labyrinth, New Haven, Connecticut on 11 March, after which Larry’s celebrated rock band, Black 47, will play a concert. |
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| NEWS FROM BRANDON AUTHORS
ALICE TAYLOR | | “She has become the most popular and universally loved author in memory.”
Mail on Sunday
TWO OF THE BIGGEST BESTSELLERS EVER PUBLISHED IN IRELAND
TO SCHOOL THROUGH THE FIELDS
THE VILLAGE
NOW REPUBLISHED IN MARCH 2010 IN NEW EDITIONS BY BRANDON
TO SCHOOL THROUGH THE FIELDS; 184 pages; ISBN 9780863224218; March 2009
THE VILLAGE; 184 pages; ISBN 9780863224201; March 2009
The memoirs of Alice Taylor have been international bestsellers since the publication of the first, To School Through the Fields, in 1988 smashed all previous records for sales in Ireland. Described by The Observer as “Ireland’s Laurie Lee”, Alice Taylor and her tales of life in rural County Cork have proved to possess a universal appeal. Born on 28 February 1938 on a farm near Newmarket in County Cork, Alice Taylor worked as a telephonist in Killarney and Bandon. When she married she moved to Innishannon where she ran a guesthouse at first, then the supermarket and post office. She and her husband, Gabriel Murphy, who died in November 2005, had four sons and one daughter.
To School Through the Fields, her first memoir, became the biggest selling book ever published in Ireland, and her sequels, Quench the Lamp, The Village, Country Days and The Night Before Christmas were also outstandingly successful. Since their initial publication these books of memoirs have also been translated and sold internationally. In 2008 and 2009 her latest memoir, The Parish was again a bestseller, in hardback and paperback, and won the 2009 Irish-Published Book of the Year Award.
In 1997 her first novel, The Woman of the House, was an immediate bestseller in Ireland, topping the paperback fiction lists for many weeks. It was followed by her second novel, Across the River in 2000, and by her third, House of Memories in 2005. Alice Taylor is also a poet, and in October 2009 Brandon published her fourth collection, The Journey: New and Selected Poems.
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| | KEN BRUEN | “Amongst writers, Ken Bruen has become the crime novelist to read.”
George Pelecanos
TWO OF THE BEST CRIME NOVELS OF THE DECADE
THE GUARDS
THE KILLING OF THE TINKERS
REPUBLISHED IN FEBRUARY 2010 IN NEW EDITIONS
The Guards; 304 pages; ISBN 9780863224102; February 2009
The Killing of the Tinkers; 254 pages; ISBN 9780863224119; February 2009
The Jack Taylor novels, set in Galway City on Ireland’s west coast, have established a leading place in the world of international crime writing. Now, the first two novels in the series are being reissued in new editions. The Guards, first of the novels which feature the disgraced alcoholic ex-cop, has been sold by Brandon to publishers in the USA, Japan, Italy, France, Spain, Denmark, the Netherlands, Australia, Russia, Germany, Bulgaria, Turkey, the Czech Republic, Poland and Albania.
And now a film of The Guards will be released in 2010. First published in 2001, this breakthrough novel was succeeded by The Killing of the Tinkers (2002), which has also been widely published internationally. The Magdalen Martyrs followed in 2003, and The Dramatist was published in May 2004.
Following the enormous success of the first four Jack Taylor novels, Ken Bruen moved to Transworld, who have published three more novels in the series: Priest, Cross and Sanctuary.
Ken Bruen, born in Galway in 1951, spent twenty-five years as an English teacher in Africa, Japan, S.E. Asia and South America. He now lives in his native Galway city.
WINNER, BEST SERIES AWARD (CRIME WRITERS OF AMERICA) FOR THE JACK TAYLOR NOVELS
Winner, Best Novel category of the 2004 Shamus Awards: The Guards.
Winner, 2005 Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel: The Killing of the Tinkers
Winner, 2007 Shamus Award for Best Hardback Novel: The Dramatist
Also nominated for the Edgar Awards, The Barry Awards The Gumshoe Awards and the Macavity Awards
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 | | FILMING OF THE GUARDS BY KEN BRUEN | The film is directed by Stuart Orme. Stuart has previously worked on INSPECTOR MORSE and MERLIN and spent much of the 80s making music videos for the likes of Whitney Houston and Phil Collins.
Iain Glen (Song for a Raggy Boy, Tara Road) leads the cast as Jack Taylor.
Glen has been seen on television in THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK, CITY OF VICE and WIVES & DAUGHTERS. He also played Dr Isaacs in the RESIDENT EVIL films and will soon be seen in the HBO adaptation of George Martin's GAME OF THRONES.
Ralph Brown (The Boat that Rocked) stars as his sidekick Sutton.
The female leads are played by Irish actresses Tara Breathnach (The Tudors) and Nora-Jane Noone (Savage).
Produced by Ralph Christians (Niko and the way to the Stars) and Clodagh Freeman (Summer of the Flying Saucer), the script was adapted from Bruen's novel by Anne McCabe, Tom Collins and Ralph Christians.
Other crew involved includes Director of Photography John Conroy (The Bourne Ultimatum) and Production Designer Derek Wallace (Triage).
This 90 minute TV movie is the first episode in a series of Jack Taylor stories, co-financed by German broadcaster RTL, Richard Price TV Associates, UK, The Media Fund and Magma Films, Ireland.
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