 | LOOK AND GROW MINDFUL Many of us are blind to the joy and splendour of the world around us. If we could look once more in wonder—at our skies, birds, clouds, and stars; at our streams, rivers, lakes and oceans; at our fields, hedgerows, woods and forests; at living creatures, even at ourselves... such wonder could utterly change our lives, and lead us to the joyous state called Mindfulness. Available from Amazon & FeedAread.com |
 | CORDUROY BOY A coming-of-age novel in which a scrupulous and deeply-troubled Catholic boy grows gradually to manhood and maturity, mentored by a dedicated teacher, while both his family and his elite boarding school lurch towards terminal decline. ‘A middle-class Angela’s Ashes’ — Paul Williams Available from Amazon, www.redstag.ie & www.mentorbooks.ie |
 | I WILL NOT SERVE More than 17,000 Roman Catholic priests were called up to serve in Hitler’s armed forces dujring World War Two. One refused. This is the fascinating true story of Franz Reinisch who, in an incredibly brave and principled act of conscience, refused to swear allegiance to Adolf Hitler, all the way to a horrific end on the guillotine. His refusal to serve was based on what he witnessed of the persecution of the Jewish People. ‘Vivid and sensitive telling of the story… both moving and timely‘ –Lenny Abrahamson, director of Room and Normal People Available from Amazon, www.redstag.ie & www.mentorbooks.ie |
 | YES, YOU CAN WRITE A beginner’s guide to writing non-fiction, the covering everything a journalist needs to know, including news reporting, creating intros, feature writing, interviewing, news backgrounders, news analysis, colour stories, public relations, and lots more. Available from Amazon, www.redstag.ie & www.mentorbooks.ie |
 | TTHE JOY OF LOOKING This was written shortly before Look and Grow Mindful, but makes the same plea to wonder at the oneness of nature, a wonder that can utterly change our lives, and even lead us to genuine awe. ‘Best of luck with your timely & valuable work’ — Fritjof Capra Out of print but sometimes available on eBay |
 | THE DRAGON’S BROOD ‘Our mouths cannot utter what we think; our pens cannot write what we know to be true’ — proclaimed the banners of the young marchers in Tiananmen Square in the spring of 1989. David Rice was there and interviewed hundreds of the protesters and survivors of the massacre. ‘Someone must tell the world how we feel,’ he was told. ‘Will you do it for us?’ ‘…Accurately conveys the the often touching despair of most Chinese surveying the wasteland of their recent past’ — The Times ‘ A marvellously fresh and immediate evocation… Achieves real depth…’ — The London Review of Books ‘Illuminating recorded conversations’ — The Times Literary Supplement ‘Where Jung Chang leaves off, David Rice takes over’ — The Tablet Available on Amazon & eBay |
 | BLOOD GUILT What becomes of a gunman when his killing days are done? Drawn into the Irish republican movement, Con Emmet soon finds himself carring a gun for Mother Ireland. But his first mission goes tragically, unspeakably wrong. Exiled in America’s Pacific Northwest, his talent as a journalist brings him fame and success. But his past continues to haunt him. Finally he must make the most fearful choice a man can make… ‘One of the best-timed releases in modern publishing.. In the very week of its publication the central question posed by the book would be on the lips of thousands’ — Evening Press Out of print but sometimes avalable on eBay |
 | SHATTERED VOWS The No.1 best-selling book on priests who have left the ministry, also filmed as Priests of Passion by YTV for Channel 4 . ‘A well-documented study concerning one of the most urgent problems of the present Church. This book is at the same time an outcry for changing the present disastrous policy.’ — Professor Hans Küng ‘I know of no study of the curresnt state of the Catholic priesthood that compares with this.’ — Peter De Rosa, author of Vicars of Christ Available on Amazon & eBay |
 | THE POMPEII SYNDROME Is western civilisation about to self-destruct? Terrorists hijack a plane out of Knock Airport to fly it into a Brtitish nuclear plant, aiming to render Europe uninhabitable. Three people try to prevent it, but time is running out… ‘An absolutely gripping read’ — Paul Carson ‘Read this book or regret it till your dying day’ — Paul Williams ‘A taut thriller… scarily beliveable’ — Cathy Kelly Out of print but sometimes available on eBay |
 | LA SINDROME DI POMPEI Italian edition of Pompei Syndrome, published by Newton Compton, Rome. ‘Io temo che il prossimo 11 settembre possa reguardare una centrale nucleare: il rischio è troppo alto’ — Jeremy Rifkin Out of print but sometimes available on eBay |
 | THE RATHMNES STYLEBOOK Should you write OK or okay? Is it 7 percent, or 7 per cent or 7 p.c. or seven percent ? Do you write A.I.D.S. or AIDS or Aids or aids ? The answers are all here in this amazing little book, created for the Rathmins School of Journalism, now part of TUD. ‘We are writing to be understood, and this book will help. Keep what you write simple and short, and you can’t go wrong. When in doubt, refer to The Rathmines Stylebook.’ — Douglas Gageby, ex-editor of The Irish Times. Out of print but sometimes available on eBay |
 | KIRCHE OHNE PRIESTER German translation of Shattered Vows, published by C Bertelsmann, with a foreword by Uta Ranke-Heinemann. ‘Dies ist kein aggressives Buch… Zugleich ist es ein Aufschrei zur Veränderung der gegenwärtigen ruinösen Kirchenpoilitik‘ ‘– Prof Hans Küng Available from Amazon & eBay |
 | THE LITTLE ROADS OF IRELAND …where they might lead you and what you might find there. Get off the great motorways and the roaring trunk roads and explore the thousands of tiny roads and boreens of Ireland — the roads to God knows where. These are the roads less travelled by, and, as Robert Frost says, taking them will make all the difference. Hundreds of pictures of the what they call The Hidden Ireland. ‘A unique revelation of this other Ireland’ — Thomas Ryan RHA ‘Captivating pictures and engaging commentary… an extraordinary work… a truly beautiful production’ –Mary Ellen Hawkey Available from Amazon, www.redstag.ie & www.mentorbooks.ie |
 | The Sundered Children The Sundered Children is explosive, in that it takes on a crucial issue about which there has lately been a deathly silence. Essentially its 30+ writers are here facing up to the following: If a United Ireland were to be declared in present circumstances, the Unionist hardliners would be out with their guns. They have explicitly said so to an author of this book; We must first work towards a United Northern Ireland, where both sides accept and respect each other, where ‘otherness’ is seen not as a threat, but as the enrichment that difference can bring; This can be achieved only by educating the children of both sides together for a considerable time; We therefore need to persuade those in power to make this happen. Available from Amazon and on request from bookshops |