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Colm Toibin
A Guest at the Feast uncovers the places where politics and poetics meet, where life and fiction overlap, where one can be inside writing and also outside of it.
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It is the late 1960s in Ireland. Nora Webster is living in a small town, looking after her four children, trying to rebuild her life after the death of her…
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In The Magician, Colm Toibin captures the profound personal conflict of a very public life, and through this life creates an intimate portrait of the twentieth century.
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In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Colm Toibin turns his incisive gaze to three of Ireland’s greatest writers, Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats and James Joyce, and their earliest influences: their…
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Written with deep knowledge and affection, Homage to Barcelona is a sensuous and beguiling portrait of a great Mediterranean city.
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Sensitive and beautifully written meditation on the dramas surrounding this most elemental of relationships. Each of the nine stories focuses on a moment in which an unspoken balance shifts, in…
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A difficult and honest love story by Colm Toibin.
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2004, a remarkable novel about Henry James, the American-born novelist and a connoisseur of exile.
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From the bestselling author of Brooklyn, Colm Toibin’s first collection of poetry explores travel, sexuality, religion and family.
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The Heather Blazing is a wonderful character study of a man, his childhood, family, and community.
All my life I have loved the Sabbath. So begins Colm Toibin’s devastating novella The Testament of Mary
A story of resolution, compassion and love, The Blackwater Lightship reveals the intense connection between grandmother, mother and daughter.
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by LitHub and The Millions! From one of the most engaging and brilliant writers of our time comes a "not to be missed"…
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Eilis Lacey dreams of life beyond the confines of her tiny Irish village. The parish priest, Father Flood, arranges for her to travel to America, where a job opportunity has…
Follow Colm Toibin’s lone religious pilgrimage along the Irish border during the tumultuous summer of 1987.
A collection of nine stories focusing on a moment in which an unspoken balance shifts; in which a mother and son do battle, or experience a sudden crisis, thus leaving…
Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also…
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From one of the most engaging and brilliant writers of our time comes a collection of essays about growing up in Ireland during radical change; about cancer, priests, popes, homosexuality…
James Joyce
Joyce’s brilliantly vivid portrait of Dublin, introduced by Colm Toibin.
Oscar Wilde
An account of Oscar Wilde’s spiritual journey while in prison, and describes his new, shocking conviction that ‘the supreme vice is shallowness’. It also includes further letters to his wife…
From the young Pakistani immigrant who seeks some kind of permanence in a strange town to the Irish woman reluctantly returning to Dublin and discovering a city that refuses to…
Virginia Lee
The unique selling point applying to all Insight Text Guides is the fact that Insight is the only publisher in Australia that takes the time and has the in -…
Last year when Garry Hynes asked me to edit a book on Synge, I realised that a great seachange had taken place in relation to his work. Once, he would…
For Mary, her son has been lost to the world, and now, living in exile and in fear, she tries to piece together the memories of the events that led…
A wide variety of poems, ranging in setting and topic, Vinegar Hill deals with gay experience and with the experience of loss, with memory and a fading past as well…
A New York Times Notable Book, Critic’s Top Pick, and Top Ten Book of Historical Fiction Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, NPR, Vogue, The…
Part travelogue, part autobiography, part historical document, this is Colm Toibin at his finest and most insightful.
In this perceptive and rich collection of essays, Colm Toibin investigates the lives as well as the work of homosexual writers and artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Traditional Chinese edition of House of Names
This sharp and stylish biography redefines the woman George Bernard Shaw once described as ‘the greatest living Irishwoman’ - Augusta Gregory.
The film tie-in version of the bestseller Brooklyn.
Includes a preview of Colm Toibin’s novel Nora Webster.
Tells about writers and their families. This book explores the often tense relationship between writers and their families.
In this book, novelist Colm Toibin offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most important literary influences–the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. Ranging across…
In the ancient town of Ephesus, Mary lives alone, years after her son’s crucifixion. She has no interest in collaborating with the authors of the Gospel - her keepers, who…
It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate…
