GILL BOOKS SPRING–SUMMER 2018

1 NEW BOOKS CALENDAR WELCOME TO THE GILL BOOKS

TITLE ISBN HB PB E AUTHOR CATALOGUE OF NEW BOOKS

JANUARY The Money Doctor 2018 9780717179961 • John Lowe Re:set One Day at a Time Diary 2018 9780717179572 • Abby Wynne This spring we have books that will help you to take stock and restore Organised 9780717175567 • • Sarah Reynolds your life to factory settings. Slow at Work 9780717173570 • • Aoife McElwain Organised and Slow at Work will inspire you to declutter, simplify and FEBRUARY finally gain some control at home and at work. When Panic Attacks 9780717180493 • • Dr Áine Tubridy

Irish Granny’s Pocket Farmhouse Kitchen 9780717179435 • Judith McAdam’s groundbreaking book The Source will help you discover the energy to turn your life in the direction you want this year. A Pocket Biography of Wilde 9780717179459 •

A Pocket History of the Irish Famine 9780717179442 • Ireland’s most formidable doctor, Dr Eva Orsmond, is back with a Chester Beatty Library Book of Days 9780717180462 • straight-talking, no-nonsense guide to taking control of your health in Reverse Your Diabetes, and Kate O’Brien is here to show you how to

MARCH GLOW from the inside out. Tony 10 9780717179701 • • Declan Lynch & Tony O’Reilly

Spuds and the Spider 9780717179954 • Seamus Ó Conaill Then there are three absorbing real-life reads: the astonishing story of

GLOW 9780717179381 • Kate O’Brien the postman whose secret addiction saw him gamble €10 million and lose everything – €1.75 million of that belonging to An Post; the story of APRIL the fateful meeting of Jason Corbett and Molly Martens, as told by his My Name is Bridget 9780717180424 • • Alison O’Reilly sister; and the shocking story of one forgotten woman – and countless A Teacher's Life 9780717180868 • Colm Cuffe others – from the Tuam Mother and Baby home. The Source 97807171781254 • • Judith McAdam

The Gospel According to Blindboy (Paperback) 97807171781001 • • Blindboy Boatclub We hope there’s a book here for you.

The Choice (Paperback) 97807171781025 • • Philly McMahon with Niall Kelly Gill Books Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling (B Format) 97807171781018 • • Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen

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My Brother Jason 97807171781285 • • Tracey Corbett-Lynch and Ralph Riegel

Dr Eva Orsmond’s Reverse Your Diabetes 97807171781322 • Dr Eva Orsmond

3 SELF-HELP SELF-HELP Professional Organiser SARAH REYNOLDS has been helping clients find their hidden home organisation skills for years. She has seen the benefits andJANUARY freedom JANUARY organisation has brought to their lives and here she shares her secrets.

304 PP Organised Sarah Reynolds 352 PP This life-changing book will transform your approach to clutter and tidying up so that getting and staying organised is easy and you get the maximum space, functionality and joy out of your home. 242 X 171 MM 176 X 128 MM

DISCOVER:

• WHY CLUTTER BUILDS UP AND THE PAPERBACK HARDBACK PSYCHOLOGICAL BLOCKS STOPPING YOU FROM TACKLING IT Organised • WHERE AND HOW TO START ON YOUR WORLD, ALL LANGUAGES WORLD, ALL LANGUAGES JOURNEY TO AN ORGANISED HOME SIMPLE WAYS to declutter your HOUSE, your SCHEDULE and your MIND • THE ART OF THROWING THINGS AWAY 978 0 7171 7556 7 978 0 7171 7357 0 WITHOUT REGRET

Sarah’s clients have found that when their house is in order, change occurs in other parts of their life€16.99 too. An £14.99 €12.99 £11.99 organised home will give you the energy and motivation to create the life you want and move on from whatever is holding you back. Step by step, room by room, discover the art of creating a home for stress-free living. Make this the year you get organised! Organised Slow at Work Sarah Reynolds SARAH REYNOLDS Ireland’s Leading Professional Organiser AOIFE MCELWAIN

www.gillbooks.ie ISBN 978-0-7171-7556-7 AUTHOR AUTHOR

9 780717 175567 Cover photograph © GAP Interiors/David Cleveland LIFESTYLE/SELF-HELP Author image © DarrenSarah Fitzpatrick Photography Reynolds is Ireland’s Aoife McElwain is a food leading professional writer and creative events Organiser. She worked in planner. She writes for The OrganisedCover.indd 1 29/11/2017 10:30 television before deciding Irish Times and Totally to follow her passion and MAKE THIS THE YEAR YOU TAKE BACK Dublin, is one half of the IT’S TIME TO FIGURE OUT A BETTER WAY OF train in New York with Julie CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE! video and recipe series WORKING: FIND CAREER SUCCESS, BUT STAY SANE ALONG THE WAY Morgenstern, America’s Professional Organiser Sarah Reynolds has been helping forkful.tv and works as number one professional a food stylist. She is the Organiser and regular clients find their hidden home organisation skills for Programme Curator and Two years ago author Aoife McElwain was burnt out. Fed contributor to the Oprah years. She has seen the benefits and freedom organisation Community Manager of up of being ‘bananas busy’ and constantly frazzled she show. When she returned has brought to their lives and here she shares her secrets. community arts festival had an epiphany and decided, ‘I have got to figure out a home she set up her dream This life-changing book will transform your approach Turkfest and hosts Sing better way of working.’ She set out to uncover what was business, Organised to clutter and tidying up so that getting and staying Along Social. She is also the behind her feeling constantly on the go and created a new Chaos. She is a regular founder and curator of the contributor to national organised is easy. slow:series, the talk series blueprint for work–life balance, which she now shares in Slow at Work. media and regularly speaks Sarah’s clients have found that when their house is in which inspired this book. at nationwide events on the topic of home and order, change occurs in other parts of their lives too. Step The way we work has changed, and in our always-on workplace organisation. by step, room by room, discover the art of creating a home culture, the cult of busyness and blurred boundaries mean Her website is for stress-free living. Make this the year you get organised! that work and life can become seriously out of balance. www.organisedchaos.ie. Here Aoife provides the tools to help navigate this new world of work – not only to achieve career success, but to stay sane while doing so. If you are burnt out, anxious, feel like an imposter or are caught in a cycle of procrastination, this book contains all the advice you need to restore your balance and get back on track.

4 5 BEAUTY/HEALTH HEALTH/COOKERY

MARCH MAY 288 PP 304 PP

235 X 195 MM 247 X 189 MM HARDBACK PAPERBACK

WORLD, ALL LANGUAGES WORLD, ALL LANGUAGES 978 0 7171 7938 1 978 0 7171 8132 2

€19.99 £17.99 €19.99 £17.99

Dr Eva GLOW Orsmond’s KATE O’BRIEN Reverse Your Diabetes AUTHOR

Kate O’Brien has dedicated DR EVA ORSMOND many years to seeking the soundest skincare advice and writing about GET THE GLOW FROM THE INSIDE OUT – AND AUTHOR IRELAND’S MOST FORMIDABLE DOCTOR it in various publications GET READY FOR THE COMPLIMENTS Dr Eva Orsmond, MD TAKES ON ONE OF THE COUNTRY’S BIGGEST worldwide. With HEALTH CHALLENGES Your skin is your body’s biggest organ, and with a little effort MPH, is a medical doctor professional qualifications with a special interest in to look after it you can transform the way you look and feel. Over 200,000 people in Ireland suffer from type 2 diabetes in both nutrition and weight management and cosmetic science, and and are dependant on medication to manage it. But Dr Working from the inside out, Kate O’Brien’s tried-and- the treatment of overweight having interviewed some of and obese adults and Eva Orsmond has successfully helped her patients reverse tested revitalising skin-centric GLOW plan contains over 60 the world’s leading cosmetic children. She appeared for their type 2 diabetes through diet, supplements and hard skin-nourishing recipes along with a targeted step-by-step scientists, dermatologists a number of years on RTÉ’s work. Dr Eva is passionate about empowering sufferers and skincare manufacturers, skincare routine designed to give your skin the fuel it needs hugely popular Operation to take control of their health and here she shares her she knows what works for to repair, nourish and bring about real and lasting change at Transformation. Her two skin at every age and stage complete diet plan for reversing the disease. a deep cellular level. previous books, The Last in life. Kate is also the Diet and The 10lb Diet were Including over 60 recipes, this book also provides lots of author of Your Middle Years: Whether you have an upcoming wedding, a holiday or simply bestsellers. Her television Live Them, Love Them, Own information to help you to adjust your diet and take control want to look and feel your best, this quick and easy four-week documentaries, Sugar Them with Paula Mee. She Crash, Medication Nation of your blood glucose levels. By following Dr Eva’s four- plan will put you on the fast track to radiant skin. lives in Dublin with her and Ireland’s Health Divide phase diet plan you will remove fat from your pancreas, husband and three children. were widely watched. She potentially allowing you to come off diabetes medication is a regular contributor to and move into maintenance for life. Based on the latest a number of publications, including the Irish Daily medical research and using case studies from Dr Eva’s Mail. own practice, Dr Eva Orsmond’s Reverse Your Diabetes is a must-read for anyone suffering from the disease.

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APRIL FEBRUARY 304 PP 320 PP

220 X 150 MM 232 X 153 MM HARDBACK PAPERBACK

WORLD, ALL LANGUAGES WORLD, ALL LANGUAGES 978 0 7171 8125 4 978 0 7171 8049 3

€19.99 £17.99 €19.99 £17.99

The Source When Panic JUDITH MCADAM Attacks DR ÁINE TUBRIDY AUTHOR

Judith McAdam is a AUTHOR theologian, spiritual teacher, kinesiologist, life coach, Dr Áine Tubridy (d. 2011) course facilitator and was a medical doctor with a inspirational speaker. She GROUNDBREAKING SELF-HELP BOOK FROM Masters in Psychotherapy NEW EDITION OF LIFE-CHANGING CLASSIC has been practising for A NEW SPIRITUAL LEADER FOR OUR TIMES from University College, TEXT twenty years, and founded Dublin. She specialised in In The Source, theologian, spiritual teacher Hundreds of thousands of people in Ireland suffer from her Dublin-based practice the management of anxiety seven years ago. Her and kinesiologist Judith McAdam blends her and panic at the Menninger panic attacks and anxiety but many struggle to access any appointment diary is booked broad knowledge of world religions to reveal her Centre in Kansas, meaningful help for these conditions. Prompted by years out months in advance groundbreaking principles for creating your own reality incorporating biofeedback of working with patients suffering from panic attacks and technology and relaxation with loyal clients who work and living out your life’s purpose. struck by just how common and debilitating they were, with Judith on a regular training, and brought this medical doctor and psychotherapist Dr Áine Tubridy basis. They go back to her You will learn to align with Source Energy – a universal expertise to the cardiac first publishedWhen Panic Attacks in 2003. It has been repeatedly, because, step by energy that lies deep within us and all around us – to rehabilitation programme at St Vincent’s Hospital, a bestseller ever since – because her methods work – and step, she has helped them define your dreams, build momentum around them and create their own abundant Dublin. She also had a this spring a new edition hits the shelves. reality. Judith is the mother watch them become reality. The book includes case practice at the Institute of of twin boys and a girl. studies from Judith’s clients which illustrate how to Psychosocial Medicine in Grounded in years of clinical experience and research, successfully implement this plan to change your life. Such Dun Laoghaire. When Panic Attacks helps makes sense of the suffering is the demand for Judith’s services, appointments are only and is an important handbook offering hope for those available by booking months in advance. Now, for the trapped in a constant cycle of fear and panic. In an first time, she shares her wisdom in The Source – a life- increasingly fear-driven society When Panic Attacks is transforming book for all who read it. more relevant than ever.

8 9 TRUE STORIES TRUE STORIES

MARCH MAY 272 PP 272PP

234 X 156 MM 216 X 135 MM PAPERBACK PAPERBACK

WORLD, ALL LANGUAGES WORLD, ALL LANGUAGES 978 0 7171 7970 1 978 07171 8128 5

€16.99 £14.99 €14.99 £12.99

Tony 10 My Brother DECLAN LYNCH & Jason TONY O’REILLY TRACEY CORBETT- LYNCH WITH AUTHORS RALPH RIEGEL Declan Lynch is an author and columnist with the THE ASTONISHING STORY OF THE POSTMAN AUTHORS THE UNTOLD STORY OF JASON CORBETT’S Sunday Independent. A WHO GAMBLED €10,000,000 prominent commentator on Tracey Corbett-Lynch LIFE AND BRUTAL DEATH matters relating to culture, A heart-stopping ride with a dangerous compulsion beyond is Jason Corbett’s older On 2 August 2015, Limerick father-of-two Jason Corbett sport and politics, he is also sister and she led the fight control, Tony 10 is the story of the postman who stole €1.75 was savagely beaten to death in the bedroom of his luxury the author of ten books, for justice for her brother. including Days of Heaven, million from An Post while he was a branch manager in She successfully fought for North Carolina home. His killers were his wife Molly John Giles: A Football Man Gorey, to fund a gambling addiction that began with a bet of custody of his two children Martens and his father-in-law, Thomas Martens. In a and The Ponzi Man. €1 and rose eventually to €10 million, leading to the loss of after his death and they trial that gripped both the US and Ireland, the case that Tony O’Reilly is a former his family and his home. now live with her and her the duo had acted in self-defence – though they hadn’t a husband in Limerick. An Post branch manager scratch on them while Jason suffered horrific injuries – fell In Tony 10, Tony O’Reilly recounts the last-minute goals is the southern originally from Carlow. Ralph Riegel apart and they were sentenced to over 20 years in prison. After losing everything that destroyed him, the shots that hit the post and the times correspondent for The Irish to a gambling addiction when he vowed to get out while he was ahead, only for those Independent and a regular Behind the scenes, Jason’s family were locked in a he resolved to put his moments to be lost in another surge of adrenaline. This contributor to RTÉ, BBC, desperate custody battle to bring Jason’s children back experiences to good use and Newstalk and TV3. Previous book details everything from the terrifying moments in a today he is a fully qualified books include Afraid of the to Ireland and away from the woman who had killed their counsellor dedicated hotel room in Cyprus with his wedding money riding on Dark, Hidden Soldier and beloved father and brother. With full access to Jason’s to raising awareness of the Derby, to his disappearance on the morning the fraud Commando. He lives in letters, emails, keepsakes and photographs, Jason’s sister, gambling addiction. was discovered, the surreal three days spent on the run in Cork. Tracey Corbett-Lynch, reveals for the first time the full and Northern Ireland, and ultimately his arrest, conviction and shocking story of what Molly and Tom Martens tried to sentencing to four years in jail. get away with.

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APRIL APRIL 304 PP 160 PP

234 X 156 MM 216 X 135 MM PAPERBACK HARDBACK

WORLD, ALL LANGUAGES WORLD, ALL LANGUAGES 978 0 7171 8042 4 978 0 7171 8086 8

€14.99 £12.99 €9.99 £8.99

My Name is A Teacher’s Bridget Life ALISON O’REILLY COLM CUFFE

AUTHOR AUTHOR

Alison O’Reilly is a Colm Cuffe is a primary documentary maker and THE UNTOLD STORY OF BRIDGET DOLAN school teacher originally THE PERFECT ‘THANK YOU’ GIFT FOR journalist with the Irish AND THE TUAM MOTHER AND BABY HOME from Galway, now living in TEACHERS EVERYWHERE Daily Mail. Wicklow. Since September In 1946, twenty-six-year-old Bridget Dolan walked up the 2016 he has been posting A Teacher’s Life is a collection of over 150 cartoons based path to the front door of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home. his artworks on Facebook, on the popular When’s it Hometime? Facebook page that Alone and pregnant, she was following in the footsteps of where he has amassed hilariously captures the ups and downs of life as a teacher. over 19,000 followers. His more than a century’s worth of lost souls. Shunned by society Filled with funny observations of classroom antics, this work has been featured on for her sins and offered no comfort for her pain, Bridget gave boredpanda.com, thejournal. book will have you smiling in sympathy and laughing out birth to a boy, who died at the home in a horrendous state ie, icanhazcheezburger.com loud. of neglect. Her second child was once again delivered at the and upworthy.com and has It’s the perfect ‘thank you’ for every teacher for all they put home, then taken from her and never seen again. garnered over a million views. up with over the course of the school year! She would go on to have a daughter, Anna, but it was only after Bridget’s death – and in the aftermath of the explosive revelations that the remains of 796 babies had been found in a septic tank on the site of the home – that Anna discovered she had two brothers her mother had never spoken about. Was her brother’s body in the tank? Anna still does not know. Through Anna, this book puts on the record the life of Bridget Dolan and all the forgotten women and children of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home.

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NUMBER 1 BES PERSONAL FINANCET H E M o n y D c SELF-HELP/GIFT Welcome to the 13th edition

T of The Money DocJANUARYtor – SELLER JANUARY Ireland’s No. 1 finance annual. THE 160 PP Helpful at every stage of your journey440 throug hPP life, whether you need advice on budgeting and planning, pensions and investments, mortgages and debt management or life and health cover. In The THE Money Doctor 2018 Ireland’s foremost independent financial adviser MONEY 235 X 165 MM DOCTOR’S John Lowe provides all the informatio245n you n eXed t175o beco mMMe financially M NEY FOR fit so you can better manage your money and grow your wealth with TIPS THE TOP ease. This latest edition also contains PAPERBACKdetails of Budget 2018 plus Jim PAPERBACK Power’s economic commentary on what to expect for the year ahead. DOCTOR This book and the Money Doctor advisory services will go a long way toward safeguarding, preserving and WORLD,growing your mo nALLey in 2 0LANGUAGES18. o r WORLD, ALL LANGUAGES ‘Explains complex financial issues in a readily understandable way.’ 2 978 0 7171 7957 2 Pat Kenny, Newstalk FM & TV9783 0 7171 7996 1 ‘A terrific book that you can dip in and out of – and written in a very user-friendly way.’ 0 €12.99 £11.99 Gay Byrne, broadcaster €12.99 £11.99 ‘This is strong financial medicine from the Money Doctor 1 and is a must read that I regularly refer to.’ Jim Power, independent economist 8 2018 UPDATED WITH

J o h n L One Day at a Money JOHN BUDGET Doctor 2018 2018 Time Diary o LOWE

w 2018 www.gillbooks.ie e ISBN 978-0-7171-7996-1 JOHN LOWE ‘Readable. Reliable. Accessible. This is one doctor that will save you money.’ JOE DUFFY, PRESENTER OF ABBY WYNNE

9 780717 179961 LIVELINE, RTÉ RADIO 1 PERSONAL FINANCE Cover design by www.grahamthew.com AUTHOR AUTHORS John Lowe has over 30 years’ experience in the IRELAND’S NO. 1 GUIDE TO ORGANISING Abby Wynne is a TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE – ONE DAY AT finance sector. He is a Fellow YOUR FINANCES – AND MAKING YOUR psychotherapist with a A TIME of the Institute of Bankers, MONEY GO FURTHER master’s degree in science, has successfully completed and is accredited with This beautiful self-care journal will take you on a year- the Chartered Director Helpful at every stage of your journey through life, whether the Irish Association long transformational journey to discover the key to programme through the you need advice on budgeting and planning, pensions and of Psychotherapy and your own happiness and well-being. It offers you an Counselling (IACP). She Institute of Directors and investments, mortgages and debt management or life and opportunity to slow down and think about what you really is a member of the Life is also a reiki and seichem health cover. In The Money Doctor 2018, Ireland’s foremost Insurance Association. John master teacher, and a want from life and the year ahead, so you can turn those is also managing director independent financial adviser John Lowe provides all the qualified mindfulness dreams into reality. of Money Doctor, the information you need to become financially fit so you can practitioner. She is the Each month the diary focuses on a different theme, trading name of Providence better manage your money and grow your wealth with ease. author of Energy Healing such as awareness, acceptance, gratitude and wisdom. It Finance Services Limited, This latest edition also contains details of Budget 2018 plus and How to Be Well (Hay which is a fully authorised House). contains inspirational affirmations to ground you and help Jim Power’s economic commentary on what to expect for the and independent financial you reconnect to your inner wisdom. advisory company regulated year ahead. by the Central Bank of Make 2018 your best year yet. Ireland.

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MARCH MARCH 128 PP 32 PP

215 X 185 MM 277 X 219 MM HARDBACK PAPERBACK

WORLD, ALL LANGUAGES WORLD, ALL LANGUAGES 978 0 7171 8046 2 978 0 7171 7995 4

€19.99 £17.99 €8.99 £7.99

The Chester Spuds and Beatty the Spider Library Book SEAMUS Ó of Days CONAILL ILLUSTRATED THE CHESTER BY DANIELE BEATTY LIBRARY ARCHIMEDE A STUNNING BOOK OF DAYS SHOWCASING A HEART-WARMING TALE OF FRIENDSHIP AUTHOR THE GREATEST WORKS FROM THE CHESTER FOR CHILDREN BEATTY LIBRARY AUTHOR The Chester Beatty Library Spuds Postsofgold is just an ordinary, everyday Seamus Ó Conaill teaches is the pre-eminent Irish This beautifully illustrated book of days contains some leprechaun, living life quietly in his little cottage with his in UCD. His short fiction institution promoting of the finest artworks from the Chester Beatty Library’s has been published in a wife, Rose Goodytwoshoes. He’s not easily riled. In fact, the appreciation and collection. Featuring 56 carefully reproduced images in a number of journals and there’s only one thing that gets Spuds upset, and that’s understanding of world art, week-to-view format, it highlights the best of the world’s featured on RTÉ Radio. He and it contains some of the spiders. Spuds hates spiders. has been short-listed for the finest treasures of the great art and artists. Maeve Binchy Award and So he wasn’t at all happy when Leggers McWeb arrived at cultures and religions of With space to write notes for every day of the year, and the Sky Arts Future’s Fund, the world. The collections Toadstool Cottage … and long-listed for the BBC were bequeathed to the Irish complete with engravings, small colour details and softly Radio 4 Opening Lines short people and entrusted to the tinted and decorated pages, this book of days is a volume story competition. care of the State by Chester to use again and again – and to treasure for always. Beatty (1875–1968), who Daniele Archimede is a was a successful American Dublin-based illustrator mining engineer, collector from Milan. He has and philanthropist. qualifications in Graphic and Visual Arts and Applied Arts from the Scuola Superiore d’Arte Applicata del Castello Sforzesco. www.danielearchimede.com.

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FEBRUARY FEBRUARY 256 PP 256 PP

140 X 124 MM 140 X 124 MM HARDBACK HARDBACK

WORLD, ALL LANGUAGES WORLD, ALL LANGUAGES 978 0 7171 7943 5 978 0 7171 7944 2

€4.99 £4.50 €4.99 £4.50

The Irish A Pocket Granny’s History of Pocket the Irish Farmhouse Famine Kitchen

ENTER THE IRISH GRANNY’S FARMHOUSE AN ACCESSIBLE GUIDE TO THE STORY OF KITCHEN IRELAND’S GREAT HUNGER An accessible introduction to old-fashioned Irish cooking Between 1845 and 1852, the population of Ireland fell by enjoyed in traditional farmhouses all over Ireland. over two million, caused by a horrific famine that racked the country. While approximately one million people died of The Irish Granny’s Pocket Farmhouse Kitchen provides starvation and disease, another million fled the country in recipes for traditional Irish favourites such as Soda Bread so-called coffin ships. and Bacon and Cabbage, as well as the traditions and history of farmhouse cooking. This book traces the history of that time and looks at the causes and the consequences of the Irish Famine, the worst For example, did you know that when making the annual period of Irish history. It also covers places around the Christmas cake, everyone in the house took a turn to stir country that have connections with the Famine, such as the mixture for good luck, or that eating Barm Brack at Strokestown House, the Jeanie Johnston Famine Ship, the Hallowe’en could predict your fortunes for the rest of the Dunbrody Famine Ship, Skibbereen and Blennerville. year? The Irish granny is on hand to teach you all you need to know about Irish country cooking.

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FEBRUARY APRIL 256 PP 304 PP

140 X 124 MM 216 X 135 MM HARDBACK PAPER BACK

WORLD, ALL LANGUAGES WORLD, ALL LANGUAGES 978 0 7171 7945 9 978 0 7171 8101 8

€4.99 £4.50 €9.99 £8.99

A Pocket Oh My God, Biography of What a Wilde Complete Aisling EMER MCLYSAGHT & SARAH BREEN AN ACCESSIBLE INTRODUCTION TO THE LIFE THE MOST TALKED ABOUT BOOK OF 2017 OF ONE OF IRELAND’S GREATEST WRITERS – NEW EDITION PERFECT FOR SUMMER AND WITS AUTHORS HOLIDAY READING Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde was the possessor Emer McLysaght and Sarah Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling was the breakout are Aislings. Maybe Breen fiction hit of Christmas 2017. Based on the popular Facebook of both an extraordinary name and an extraordinary wit. not complete Aislings but His vast body of acclaimed writing includes The Picture about 42%. Emer is from page founded by authors Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen, of Dorian Grey, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Kildare and Sarah is from it is the fictionalised account of a particular type of Irish girl. Happy Prince and ‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol’. He was Carlow. After meeting Beloved by Irish women everywhere, the adventures of also famous for his flamboyant sense of dress and his while studying journalism at Ballyfermot College Aisling are set to continue with a two-book deal now in place, glittering conversation, becoming a well-known socialite of Further Education the first of which is due to be published in Autumn 2018. in Victorian London before a fateful love affair with Lord in 2003 they formed a Alfred Douglas which lead to notoriety and left him firm friendship. Sarah is ‘One of the funniest books I’ve read in twenty years’. Paul bankrupt and imprisoned. Assistant Features Editor Howard of The Gloss and Emer is a This short biography covers it all, acting as an accessible former Editor of The Daily ‘Oh lads! This book! There aren’t enough words for how introduction to one of the most fascinating Irish writers of Edge and a columnist with much I love it. It’s feicin’ HILAIRE and very touching’. all time. the Sunday Business Post. Marian Keyes ‘A hilarious and heart-warming journey with our favourite country girl’. The Irish Times

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FICTION SPORT

APRIL APRIL 272 PP 265 PP

216 X 279 MM 216 X 279 MM PAPERBACK PAPERBACK

WORLD, ALL LANGUAGES WORLD, ALL LANGUAGES 978 0 7171 8100 1 978 0 7171 8102 5

€12.99 £11.99 €12.99 £11.99

The Gospel The Choice According to PHILLY McMAHON Blindboy WITH NIALL KELLY BLINDBOY BOATCLUB AUTHORS

Philly McMahon is a AUTHOR NEW EDITION OF THE MOST EXCITING PAPERBACK EDITION OF AWARD-WINNING FICTION DEBUT OF 2017 mainstay of the current SPORTS MEMOIR One half of the All-Ireland winning Dublin Rubberbandits, Blindboy Blindboy Boatclub is one half of the Rubberbandits, football team and has been Winner of the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Sports Book of the Boatclub is Ireland’s Ireland’s foremost satirist and now the talented author of awarded two All-Stars. Year and the Éir Sports Book of the Year, in The Choice An entrepreneur and foremost satirist and most a collection of brilliant short stories. Published to acclaim Dubs star Philly McMahon shares the story of his brother original comic voice. As social activist, he owns pioneers of the aesthetic in autumn 2017, the paperback edition of The Gospel and operates a number of John, a heroin addict who died at the age of 31. The book movement ‘Gas C*ntism’, he According to Blindboy is due for release in summer 2018. businesses, including three delves into the contrasting lives of the brothers and how the has released numerous hit gyms and Fit Food, a meal opportunities presented to Philly through sport protected Powered by big themes and even bigger ideas, the stories singles, represented Ireland preparation service, as well him from the height of the heroin epidemic in Ballymun. at the Venice Biennale and cleverly question and challenge the complacencies and as being an advocate for headlined the Globe theatre. contradictions at the heart of modern Ireland. Whip-smart, numerous addiction and As well as offering sports fans fresh insights into one of Hit singles include ‘Horse provocative and animated by his unmistakably dark wit, mental health initiatives. GAA’s most fascinating characters, The Choice acts as Outside’ and ‘Spastic Hawk’. Blindboy Boatclub is one of the most original writers to Niall Kelly is a journalist an inspiration for young people who might be at risk and Blindboy also campaigns emerge in Ireland in recent years. and Deputy Editor of families with a loved one struggling with addiction, as well in support of a variety of The42.ie. as questioning how Irish society deals with addicts. social issues, including male ‘Demented, dishevelled and deeply surreal – Blindboy mental health. Boatclub’s book will shock and delight.’ Irish Independent ‘Philly McMahon should be placed on a pedestal and be a beacon of inspiration to all young sports stars in the ‘It’s not for the faint-hearted’. Joe.ie country.’ The Irish Independent ‘You won’t be disappointed. It will take you to places ‘Searing honesty’. The Irish Times unexpected’. Ryan Tubridy

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When Michael Gill founded Gill in 1968, The Irish Times described it as ‘a welcome enterprise’ and hoped it would become a home for the best of Irish authors. NICKI HOWARD, Director Since then we’ve been honoured to publish the works of great writers and experts such as Noël Browne, Garret FitzGerald, Tom Garvin, Éamon de Buitléar, Myrtle EDITORIAL Allen, Susan Jane White, Francis Brennan and Matt Cooper. DEIRDRE NOLAN, CONOR NAGLE, SARAH LIDDY, Commissioning Editors We’ve been there in good times and bad, publishing the books you choose to read on CATHERINE GOUGH, Managing Editor every aspect of Irish life: from the 1960s bestseller Prayers of Life to How Stormont SHEILA ARMSTRONG, Editor Fell; from Rachel’s Favourite Food to The Encyclopaedia of Ireland; from the DEBORAH MARSH, Editorial, Rights and Permissions Assistant heady high of The Pope’s Children to the popular reissuing of Soundings in 2010, when perhaps we all needed a bit more poetry in our lives; from Jim McGuinness’ PRODUCTION powerful Until Victory Always and Irelandopedia, which celebrated every county MAIREAD O’KEEFFE, Production Director in the country, to more recent bestsellers, Roz Purcell’s Natural Born Feeder, Jason Byrne’s Adventures of a Wonky-Eyed Boy and Kathleen Watkins’ Pigín of Howth. MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS Each book, in its own way, captures a slice of life, a slice of the times we live in. TERESA DALY, Marketing and Communications Manager ELLEN MONNELLY, Publicity Executive But it was really Michael’s great-great-grandfather who started our story. In 1856 Michael Henry Gill, then the printer to Dublin University, purchased the publishing SALES and bookselling business of James McGlashan, forming McGlashan & Gill, which PAUL NEILAN, Sales Manager then became M.H. Gill & Son, then Gill & Macmillan and, in 2016, simply Gill. JAMIE O’CONNELL, Sales Representative The bookshop – popularly known as Gills and referenced in James Joyce’s Ulysses – LINDA MURPHY, Sales Assistant was located on Dublin’s O’Connell Street for 123 years until it closed in 1979.

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