In the summer after the Anglo-Irish Agreement, when the tension was at a peak in Northern Ireland, Colm Tibn travelled along the Irish border from Derry to Newry. Bad Blood is a stark and evocative account of this journey through fear and hatred, and the legacy of history in a bleak and desolate landscape. Colm Tibn describes the ritualsthe marches, the funerals, the demonstrationsobserved by both communities along the border, and listens to the stories which haunt both sides. With sympathy and insight Bad Blood captures the intimacy of life along one of the most dangerous strips of land in Western Europe.

Bad Blood

Travel

TOIBIN, COLM.

Europe

RANDOM HOUSE UK

The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe

Religion & Spirituality

Judaism

Vintage Books

Set in the 1950s, this is the story of Katherine Proctor who "flees husband, child and County Wexford (Ireland) for Spain. She, a Catalan lover, and another Irish emigre, painters all, fashion new worlds in their work while fighting past worlds in their lives." (Library Journal)

The South

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Penguin??Books

A profile of Barcelona describes the founding of the city, its different quarters, its art, architecture, culture, and nightlife, and discusses Catalan nationalism, the Civil War, and the Franco years

Homage to Barcelona

History

The sea is slowly eating into the land and the hill with the old watchtower has completely disappeared. The nearest house has crumbled and fallen into the sea. It is Ireland in the late twentieth century. Eamon Redmond is a judge in the Irish High Court. Obsessed all his life by the letter and spirit of the law, he is just beginning to discover how painfully unconnected he is from other human beings. With effortless fluency, Colm Toibin reconstructs the history of Eamon's relationships—with his father, his first "girl," his wife, and the children who barely know him. He gives us a family as minutely realized as any of John McGahern's, and he writes about Eamon's affection for the landscape of his childhood on the east coast of Ireland with such skill that the land itself becomes a character. The result is a novel that ensnares us with its emotional intensity and dazzles with its crystalline prose. In The Heather Blazing, Colm Toibin displays once again the gifts that illuminated The South, a book described by Don DeLillo as "a grand achievement," and by John Banville as "a daring imaginative feat...a splendid first novel."

The Heather Blazing

British & Irish

Penguin Group USA

Nora Webster

Genre Fiction

Penguin Books, Ltd.

New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Writers and Their Families

Essays & Correspondence

Penguin

Empty Family

Brooklyn EXPORT

Simon&Schuster

THE SIGN OF THE CROSS: Travels in Catholic Europe

World Literature

JONATHAN CAPE.

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