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Exploring the concept of oneness and the transcendent nature of art, these raw and powerful reflections on lineage, faith and love will speak to your heart. This is a work of astonishing beauty which truly illuminates modern existence.
Born the day after the first American occupying troops landed near Tokyo in August 1945, Kerry O'Brien's life has spanned the post-war era through the maelstrom of the nuclear and digital age-a remarkable time of intense and dynamic change that has no match in human history. He has witnessed life changing events, interviewed the great and good, and explained the intricacies of the world to millions of Australians as we sat in the comfort and safety of our lounge rooms. Whether strolling the history-laden corridors of the White House unhindered while waiting to interview Barack Obama, or talking with Nelson Mandela on his first day in the presidential residence in Pretoria in a room filled wi...
Under Thirty is a novel and unique non-profit initiative that nurtures and showcases new Irish fiction at home and abroad. It provides young writers, and those who write for young audiences, access to a panel of experienced authors, literary scholars, and editors, who work entirely voluntarily to review submissions and provide feedback and encouragement to our aspiring writers. This is the first collection of the best writing we have to offer. It is bursting with fresh raw talent, new stories, new dreams, and utterly infectious potential. Edited by Stephen Doherty, this volume features stories from: Colum Kavanagh, EM Reapy, Alvy Carragher, Graham Connors, Alan Tobin, Armel Dagorn, Ben Simmons, Vanessa Baker, Leigh Michael Keeney, and Tom Goodman. To find out more about our panel of experts, our new writers, and our publications, visit www.under-30.org
Elizabeth Strout meets Marian Keyes in this wonderful, joyful, funny debut novel from Australian author Jacquie Byron.
_______________ 'What a joy of a book this is' - Irish Times 'A delightful collection' - Scotsman _______________ Sometimes it's hard to find the right words. This poetry anthology provides the antidote, offering calm, hope and peace to all. Focusing on positivity, this is the perfect collection to dip into whenever you need a boost. Containing a selection of classic poems from Langston Hughes, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson and Christina Rossetti, as well as contemporary poems chosen by Sarah Crossan – the go-to verse novelist in the UK – this beautiful book will lift your spirits time and time again. An essential read and the perfect gift for anyone in need of comfort, joy and hope. For fans of The Poetry Pharmacy and Poems to Live Your Life By
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This book examines how journalism can overcome harmful institutional issues such as work-related trauma and precarity, focusing specifically on questions of what happiness in journalism means, and how one can be successful and happy on the job. Acknowledging profound variations across people, genres of journalism, countries, types of news organizations, and methodologies, this book brings together an array of international perspectives from academia and practice. It suggests that there is much that can be done to improve journalists’ subjective well-being, despite there being no one-size-fits-all solution. It advocates for a shift in mindset as much in theoretical as in methodological appr...
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These are engagingly written poems using the acoustic play of consonants and vowels so necessary for bringing life and music to the poetry. Accessible and often strongly narrative they are always alert to the comic and everyday even when broaching hard subjects such as illness, mental illness, and death. As always in O'Brien's work, images of nature and landscape as well as relationships and a lively engagement with the ways of the world resonate with grace and candor.