Dreams and Reality (€2.99) BK Jayanti Dreams and Reality Sister Jayanti looks after five different kinds of dreams and the impact of dreams on our perceived reality and experience. She offers us a very helpful model of the mind to help us unravel the messages behind our dreams and use this understanding to change our lives. |
Espresso with the Headhunters (€5.99) Espresso with the Headhunters A journey through the jungles of Borneo The indigenous people of Borneo use blowpipes and poisoned darts. They wear ’pan handle’ haircuts, live in communal dwellings and some tribes have mastered the art of making themselves ’invisible’ in the jungle. But above all, they have a reputation as fearsome headhunters. Having cast aside his Armani jeans and bought up all the jungle equipment he could find, John Warner sets off to experience and explore the wilds of Borneo, one of the last relatively unknown places on earth. His only concern: whether he would be able to find a decent cup of espresso in the jungle. But life in the wilderness turns out to be quite agreeable - with wonderful (if unusual) food, all-night longhouse parties, drunken natives and breathtaking surroundings. In a journey that took over twelve months of planning and preparation, John takes on the mighty Rajang river, travelling up its many tributaries into the heart of Borneo - visiting remote longhouses, isolated frontier towns, government outposts, logging camps and nomadic tribes deep in the jungle. Interspersed with lively descriptions of places and people are anecdotes, glimpses of history, local legends, occasional lies and healthy doses of humour. |
Telling (€9.99) Evelyn Conlon Telling New and Selected Stories Presenting nine completely new stories by Evelyn Conlon alongside ten of the best of her previously published tales. Telling is a triumphant demonstration of the achievement and the continuing dynamism of one of Ireland’s most boldly original writers. Evelyn Conlon’s characters experience at first hand the infuriating way of life defies all our attempts to control it: a PR man loses his professional self-assurance; a chance encounter with an ex-lover leaves a women with an unnerving sense of the emptiness of her marriage; a young man suddenly finds himself the underdog in his lifelong struggle with his twin brother. Such bleak moments of self-discovery are counter pointed with stories of characteristically wry humour, with Conlon poking fun at self-appointed creative artists and uncovering with deft irony the double standards that continue to bedevil dealings between men and women everywhere. |
Two Feet, Four Paws (€9.99) Spud Talbot Ponsonby Two Feet, Four Paws Take one feisty young woman, a streetwise and headstrong dog, and set them off on a journey that is the equivalent distance of London to Delhi. Backed up by an ancient camper van called the Spudtruck, Spud and Tess the dog spend ten months walking around Britain’s coastline to raise money for Shelter, the charity for the homeless. From Scottish Hermits to overenthusiastic Redcoats, Spud encounters modern Britain in all its diversity and colour. Undeterred by hostile landowners, aching limbs and inclement weather, the indomitable pair face each challenge with determination and a healthy dose of humour. |
Valentine’s Day (€4.99) Alice Thomas Ellis Valentine’s Day Alice Thomas Ellis introduces a brilliant collection of revenge stories by some of the finest contemporary women writers. She studies the history of women’s revenge against men, and emerges with fascinating insights into the dynamic differences that place the sexes in passionate opposition. This book seeks not to relay the ever burgeoning factual accounts of how women get their own back, but to show their reactions to betrayal, cruelty and simple nastiness through the filter of fiction. One of the most satisfying means of revenge, as these authors clearly realise, is to put the offender in a story. |