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Printed in Ireland cover_autumn_2018.indd 1 31/07/2018 16:50 NEW BOOKS CALENDAR TITLE ISBN HB PB E AUTHOR JUNE AUTUMN–WINTER 2018 The National Gallery Diary 2019 9780717181452 • AUGUST BOOKS BROUGHT TO One Day at a Time Diary 2019 9780717181391 • Abby Wynne Vegan-ish 9780717180899 • • Holly White YOU BY: 15–Minute Parenting 9780717180912 • • Joanna Fortune Back on Track 9780717181568 • • David Gillick The President’s Cat 9780717175413 • Peter Donnelly Humanology 9780717180158 • • Professor Luke O’Neill NICKI HOWARD, Director SEPTEMBER People Like Me 9780717180189 • • Lynn Ruane EDITORIAL The Secret Life of Adults 9780717179565 • • Allison Keating DEIRDRE NOLAN, CONOR NAGLE, SARAH LIDDY, Commissioning Editors Ireland 1963 9780717180783 • • Kevin C. Kearns CATHERINE GOUGH, Managing Editor Working Class Heroines 9780717183517 • • Kevin C. Kearns Neven Maguire’s Home Economics for Life 9780717180790 • Neven Maguire SHEILA ARMSTRONG, Editor The Importance of Being Aisling 9780717181599 • • Emer McLysaght & Sarah Breen DEBORAH MARSH, Executive Assistant and HR Administrator Granuaile – 40th Anniversary Edition 9780717183494 • • Anne Chambers The Great Irish Weather Book 9780717180936 • Joanna Donnelly, Fuchsia MacAree A Gentleman Abroad 9780717181346 • • Francis Brennan PRODUCTION OCTOBER MAIREAD O’KEEFFE, Production Director Adventures in Philosophy 9780717179398 • Brendan O’Donoghue, Paula McGloin Codebreaker 9780717181612 • • Marc Mc Menamin MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS Madam Politician 97807171781438 • • Martina Fitzgerald TERESA DALY, Marketing and Communications Manager Doctor on a Diet 9780717183135 • • Dr Paula Gilvarry ELLEN MONNELLY, Publicity Executive Granuaile 9780717183500 • John & Fatti Burke When The Hangman Came to Galway 9780717180851 • • Dean Ruxton AVRIL CANNON, Publicity and Sales Executive The Magic Moment 9780717181339 • Niall Breslin (Bressie) De Valera: Rule 1932–1975 9780717179220 • • David McCullagh SALES A Narrow Sea 9780717180592 • • Jonathan Bardon PAUL NEILAN, Sales Manager Time to Talk 9780717183159 • • Michael Healy-Rae Fighter 9780717183449 • • Andy Lee JAMIE O’CONNELL, Sales Representative Waterford Whispers News 2018 9780717181469 • Colm Williamson LINDA MURPHY, Sales Assistant Irish Insult Generator 9780717183098 • The Rory’s Stories Guide to Being Irish 9780717183401 • • Rory O’Connor RIGHTS NOVEMBER GABI SCOLIK, Rights Agent At All Costs 9780717179602 • • Davy Fitzgerald Renaissance Nation 9780717180752 • • David McWilliams Happy Christmas, Pigín! 9780717183807 • Kathleen Watkin, Magaret Anne Suggs The Accidental Adventures of Onion O’Brien 9780717178964 • • Jason Byrne, Oisín McGann Mind, Body, Soul Journal 9780717183470 • Andrea Hayes DECEMBER The Money Doctor 2019 9780717183524 • • John Lowe cover_autumn_2018.indd 2 31/07/2018 16:50 WELCOME TO THE GILL BOOKS CATALOGUE OF NEW BOOKS FIND YOUR VOICE This season we bring you the voices of some inspiring people whose search for meaning and purpose can affect us all. • Discover the unique life stories of Davy Fitzgerald, Andy Lee and Lynn Ruane, and learn about the obstacles each has overcome to find their own place in the world. • Journey with the women who forged their own path, from Granuaile to Madam Politician and Dublin’s Working Class Heroines. • Celebrate the power of everyday human interactions to sustain those in our communities with Michael Healy-Rae. • Join David McWilliams as he uncovers Ireland’s journey over the last 40 years to find its own way of being – in Europe and the world. • Rejoice in the much anticipated return of Aisling, described by John Boyne as ‘the real Voice of Ireland’. As life-long bibliophile Fran Lebowitz said, ‘Think before you speak. Read before you think.’ We hope these books help you find your voice. The Gill Books Team 1 catalogue_autumn_2018.indd 1 31/07/2018 16:42 BIOGRAPHY/SPORT NOVEMBER 288 PP 234 X 156 MM HARDBACK WORLD, ALL LANGUAGES 978 0 7171 7960 2 €22.99 £19.99 At All Costs DAVY FITZGERALD, WITH VINCENT HOGAN AUTHORS INSIDE THE MIND OF ONE OF GAA’S MOST Davy Fitzgerald is an All- TALKED ABOUT PERSONALITIES Ireland winning hurler and manager. He is currently Davy Fitzgerald is one of Ireland’s most recognisable the manager of the Wexford and polarising figures. Possessed of an unshakeable senior hurling team, whom work ethic and determination to succeed, the All-Ireland he guided to the All-Ireland winning hurler and manager has established a reputation quarter-finals in 2016. as one of the finest hurling talents of his generation. Vincent Hogan is an acclaimed sports biographer For Davy, however, a man every bit the perfectionist, and a journalist and victory has always come at a cost. His list of playing columnist with the Irish and managerial honours is matched by a roll call of Independent. controversies and arguments. In this raw and surprisingly vulnerable account of his life in hurling, Fitzgerald confronts his legacy, his fiery reputation and the most enduring controversies of his career, all the while considering the cost pursuit of victory has taken on himself and those closest to him. Candid and self-aware, it is sure to be one of the most talked about books this year. 2 catalogue_autumn_2018.indd 2 31/07/2018 16:42 BIOGRAPHY/SPORT OCTOBER 272 PP 234 X 156 MM HARDBACK WORLD, ALL LANGUAGES 978 0 7171 8344 9 €22.99 £19.99 Fighter ANDY LEE, WITH NIALL KELLY AUTHORS Andy Lee is a former WBO middleweight champion of the world. Over the course AN EPIC AND MOVING JOURNEY, FROM THE of his professional career, he BACKSTREETS OF LIMERICK TO THE SUMMIT accumulated 35 professional OF THE WORLD’S MOST UNFORGIVING SPORT victories. He retired in February of this year. In 2005, at the age of 20, Andy Lee decided he was going to try to make it in the harsh and unforgiving world of Niall Kelly is a journalist with The42.ie. professional boxing. Leaving home for the dust and faded He ghostwrote Philly glamour of Detroit, over the next ten years, under the McMahon’s autobiography, guidance of the legendary Manny Steward, he set about The Choice, which was both honing his craft, winning fight after fight, and slowly the BGE and eir Sports Book climbing the professional ranks. of the Year in 2017. Then, in 2012, his star ascendant, Lee suffered two devastating blows in quick succession: defeat in his first world championship bout and the sudden loss of Steward, his guide and confidant. Bereft, his career in jeopardy, the path to redemption would test every hard-won lesson of the previous decade. Fighter is a lyrical and philosophical memoir about resilience, bravery and the wisdom to be found at the limits of human experience. 3 catalogue_autumn_2018.indd 3 31/07/2018 16:42 POPULAR ECONOMICS NOVEMBER 288 PP 234 X 156 MM HARDBACK WORLD, ALL LANGUAGES 978 0 7171 8075 2 €22.99 £19.99 Renaissance Nation DAVID McWILLIAMS AUTHOR HOW THE POPE’S CHILDREN REWROTE THE David McWilliams is RULES FOR IRELAND one of Ireland’s most In the four decades between the Popes’ visits, Ireland prominent broadcasters and columnists. Since the has become one of the wealthiest and most progressive runaway success of his nations in the world. It’s a far cry from the dreary and iconic publishing debut, stagnant nation of 40 years ago. The Pope’s Children, he has emerged as one of Ireland’s If we look at the data, but for the recent economic crash most prescient and trusted that should have but didn’t derail us for decades, the Irish economic commentators. economy appears to have burst from the blocks in 1990 He is a regular columnist and kept on going. So how did we manage it? The answer, with The Irish Times and the Financial Times. David McWilliams argues, isn’t to be found in the official records of government. Instead, this was a revolution from below, a wholesale shift in the way Irish people saw and thought about themselves. Renaissance Nation is a thrilling account of Ireland’s vertiginous rise and a timely exploration of its conflicted present, where stark decisions await the next generation of would-be revolutionaries. 4 catalogue_autumn_2018.indd 4 31/07/2018 16:42 BIOGRAPHY SEPTEMBER 256 PP 234 X 156 MM PAPERBACK WORLD, ALL LANGUAGES 978 0 7171 8018 9 €16.99 £14.99 People Like Me LYNN RUANE AUTHOR Lynn Ruane has served as a senator in Seanad Éireann since April 2016. ‘THIS COULD BE THE MOST IMPORTANT She is an independent BOOK YOU READ IN 2018’ – LOUISE O’NEILL social activist and politician who advocates Lynn Ruane grew up in a loving home in Tallaght, West for a number of progressive Dublin. But in her early teens things began to unravel, and causes, including the she fell into a life of petty crime and chaotic drug use. By reform of Ireland’s drug age 15 – pregnant with her first child, no longer attending treatment and counselling infrastructure, universal school and still reeling from a series of shocking incidents access to education, in her personal life – Lynn decided she had enough of women’s reproductive running away and set about rebuilding herself.