Love for Harry Moore will be forever linked with Marie, the beautiful girl from Alsace. Ever since his magical teenage encounter with her in a tiny holiday resort in Donegal, it has never lived up to his expectations. Thirty years later, Harry, middle-aged but not quite disillusioned, travels to Strasbourg to take up the search for Marie and the innocence and longings of his youth.

Trains & Boats & Planes

Literature & Fiction

McNeill, Killen

Contemporary

Pocket Books/TownHouse

* A painfully honest, wry and funny novel of a woman facing her moment of truth, told with the humour, lightness of touch and realism that could only come from an Irish author! * THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT marks the beginning of a major new career in women's fiction. Catherine Barry is an utterly original new writer destined for the top of the bestseller list * The first title in Simon and Schuster's co-publishing venture with Town House in Ireland, it will be backed with a u75,000 marketing campaign jack Joyce loses her virginity at the age of sixteen and finds the experience a crushing disappointment. But more than a decade on - living in a tiny flat, as a single mother with a dead-end job - she still dreams of Matt, Thin Lizzy, and those days of olda So bumping into Matt unexpectedly one Christmas, she feels she has met with her destiny. Okay, so he's married, he has kids, but surely divine intervention must count for something? If she can just shift some weight and stop drinking so much, who can say what might happen? When Matt invites her to join an evening class he's co-teaching, Jack's fantasies soar to new heights. She soon finds that Matt has set her on the first step of a journey that will change her life. Only it's not quite the journey she had in minda

The house that Jack built

Barry, Catherine

Back in the 1980s Denis and Michael O'Donnell were at the centre of Dublin's college scene. Sandy-haired and blue-eyed, the brothers held court in that famous house, throwing the parties, turning up the music, and breaking hearts all around them. But as final exams approached and nerves began to fray, the crowd fell into bitter dispute. And a rift opened between the O'Donnell boys that neither knew how to heal.  Now, twenty years on, despite the passage of time and their wives' best efforts, the division between the brothers persists. But now there's going to be a party. Saturday night. Up in Donegal, the O'Donnell heartland. And Denis's wife Julia thinks this might be the chance for a reunion. Between the brothers. Between old college friends. And maybe even between herself and Denis...

The Party

Adler, Curtis

A sparkling comedy of mayhem and misfortune from the author of DEAD ORGANISED When Iris Fox organised a mystery outing for a group of pensioners she met with stiff opposition from the acting matron of the Cross and Passion Nursing Home. A 'recipe for trouble' was how Sister Maureen Carmody saw it. And when the bus fails to turn up at its first comfort stop, it looks like she may have been right. All Iris wanted to do was give the pensioners a good time but despite all her carefully laid plans, hijacking, dangerous crooks and stolen ambulances certainly weren't on her itinerary! The pensioners outing will never be so good again. Even if Sister Carmody doesn't agree...

The Outing

Corr, Audrey

The exclusive diary of Mick McCarthy, award-winning manager of the Irish football team, detailing the blood, sweat and tears and pure joy of the year leading up to the 2002 World Cup and the Irish team's experiences throughout the competition. Mick McCarthy played for Barnsley, Manchester City, Celtic and is currently the manager of the Irish soccer team. He has had a long association with Irish football, having played for Ireland in Euro'88 and, as captain, led the Irish team into the 1990 World Cup. This diary will contain his story; his exclusive version of events on the road to Asia, from the Irish team's first turn of fortunes against Macedonia in Autumn 2000, when they scored in the dying moments of the match, until the games played in Asia in June 2002. This book will also provide a daily diary on his experiences with the Irish team throughout the competition and promises to be both provocative and revealing.

Mick McCarthy's World Cup Diary 2002

McCarthy, Mick

Dervlin, Cathal