Gill Books

Layers of History on Indigenous Land Sandra Matthews David Brule

$40 • Hardback 100 pages • 10x8.5 • 61 color photographs and 1 map April 2022 • PHO023040 • 978-1-93-808689-2 Sandra Matthews lives in Northampton, MA

Utilizing a muted color palette, Matthews’s photographs of both structures and historical markers are subtle and haunting. They suggest the presence of histories, embedded in the landscape but often invisible. Although the book is focused on Massachusetts, it implicitly raises larger issues of settlement and nationhood. How did the United States of America come to occupy its land? How is this story told? As a longtime occupant/occupier of Massachusetts herself, Matthews aims to understand more deeply the land on which she lives. The main text of the book comes from photographs of historic markers, which were installed around the state at different times by different interest groups. The words on these markers describe early relations between Indigenous people and largely English settlers, from diverse points of view. In this way, the book explores how difficult histories are written and how they change over time.

The Abandoned Canals of the Schuylkill Navigation Sandy Sorlien John R. Stilgoe

$45 • Hardback • 184 pages 11x9 • 103 color photographs, 20 historic illustrations, and two maps • June 2022 • PHO023040 • 978-1-93-808691-5 Sandy Sorlien lives in Rhode Island

The Schuylkill River flows more than 100 miles from the mountains of the Pennsylvania Coal Region to the Delaware River. It passes through five counties—Schuylkill, Berks, Chester, Montgomery, and Philadelphia—and its valley is home to more than three million people, yet few are aware of the hidden ruins and traces left by a pioneering 200-year-old inland waterway: the Schuylkill Navigation. Some of it is literally buried in their own backyards. Along with Sorlien’s full-color plates and explanatory essays, Inland features a selection of historic images, rare historic Schuylkill Navigation Company maps, and early Philadelphia Watering Committee plans. The book also includes a foreword by renowned landscape scholar John R. Stilgoe, an essay on regional transportation history by Mike Szilagyi, Trails Project Manager for the Schuylkill River Greenways Natural Heritage Area, and an afterword by Karen Young, Director of the Fairmount Water Works Interpretive Center. A sweeping new Schuylkill River map by Morgan Pfaelzer connects it all.

Colm Williamson

$23.50 • Paperback 144 pages • 6.9x9.6 December 2021 HUM007000 978-0-71-719257-1

Waterford Whispers News is the ninth annual from Ireland’s leading online satirical site, featuring the funniest stories of the year. Read all about the big news stories of 2021, Waterford Whispers style! Packed with brilliant satire, sharp wit and insightful social commentary, Ireland’s answer to The Onion is now a worldwide phenomenon and a must-read in an era when the news has never been more unpredictable.

A Year-Long Journey of Personal Healing and Transformation

Abby Wynne

$17.95 • Paperback • 232 pages • 6.5x9.3 October 2021 • SEL045000 978-0-71-719208-3

Abby Wynne’s One Day at a Time Diary 2022 is both a practical diary that provides space to write down your appointments and to-do lists, and an inspirational workbook that is filled with uplifting affirmations and space to journal your thoughts and emotions. Drawing on information from astrologers, the diary will support you through the energy shifts of the coming year through monthly themes, exercises and affirmations. Take it one day at a time on your healing journey this year and you will be amazed at how your life will transform. Ireland

National Gallery of

$26.95 • Hardback • 120 pages • 7.5x8.7 October 2021 • SEL045000 978-0-71-719256-4

This beautifully illustrated diary contains some of the finest paintings from the National Gallery of Ireland’s permanent collection. Featuring 56 carefully reproduced paintings in a week-to-view format, this diary highlights some of the stunning Irish and European works on view in the Gallery. Following the format and style of the popular 2021 edition, the National Gallery of Ireland Diary 2022 promises to be the must-have desk diary of the year.

The Victorian Murder Trial that Scandalised a Nation Dean Ruxton

$22.95 • Paperback • 304 pages • 6.1x9.2 December 2021 • TRU002000 978-0-71-718893-2

One morning in September 1852, a handsome couple stepped onto a hired boat bound for Ireland’s Eye, an uninhabited island and popular tourist spot off Howth Harbour. William Kirwan was an artist of considerable means and his wife, Maria, was a keen swimmer. After sunset, when the boatmen returned to collect their customers, Maria was found dead in a lonely, rocky inlet. A veil of mystery has hung over Maria’s death for almost 170 years. Now, this modern analysis casts greater doubt over the Crown’s version of events, shedding new light on the question of whether William Burke Kirwan really was guilty of murder. Haughey

Gary Murphy

$37.95 • Hardback 608 pages • 6.1x9.2 January 2022 BIO010000 978-0-71-719364-6

Saint or sinner? He was the most talented and influential politician of his generation, and his presence still looms over the Irish body politic, yet the very roots of his success – his charisma, his intelligence, his ruthlessness, his secrecy – have rendered almost impossible any objective evaluation of his life and work. He is, depending on whom you ask, either the great villain of Irish political life or the benevolent and forward-thinking savior of a benighted nation. That is, until now. Based on unfettered access to Haughey’s personal archives, as well as extensive interviews with over 80 of his peers, rivals, confidantes and relatives, Haughey is a rich and nuanced portrait of a man of prodigious gifts, who, for all his flaws and many contradictions, came to define modern Ireland.

Postcards from Ireland Past Paul Kelly

$27.95 • Hardback • 224 pages • 10.8x9.4 October 2021 • PHO023040 978-0-71-719004-1

John Hinde’s postcards of Ireland featured bright sunshine and blue skies, "We need to be uplifted rather than depressed. To me pictures should always convey a positive, good feeling, something which makes people happy..." Join Paul Kelly as he returns to John Hinde’s Ireland on a photographic pilgrimage, capturing some places that have changed forever, and some that are just the same.

John Brennan

$26.95 • Hardback 272 pages • 5.3x8.5 December 2021 BIO026000 978-0-71-719140-6 John Brennan lives in Chico, CA

As a child, John Brennan wasn’t an obvious candidate for success. He he was always at the bottom of the class. His battle with dyslexia meant that he felt stigmatized by a society that didn’t understand him. Yet his determination to not be defined by his dyslexia created an ambition that has been matched by his business acumen. Now in his mid-fifties, John’s optimism is still flowing. It is a measure of his character that, on being diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, the first thing he did was to buy a very uncared for Dromquinna Manor on a waterfront estate on 46 acres of overgrown grounds. This is a fascinating account of a man with the vision to create his own life against the odds that will inspire people everywhere to find their own way too.

Manchán Magan Steve Doogan

$26.95 • Hardback • 96 pages • 10.7x12.6 illustrated • January 2022 • JNF020000 978-0-71-719255-7

Manchán Magan is fascinated by words, particularly Irish words, with all of their complex meanings and associations and their connections to the natural world. Having enjoyed huge success with his bestselling book Thirty-Two Words for Field, Manchán now brings his infectious wonder and enthusiasm for the Irish language to a younger audience.

Rosanna Davison

The Heartbreak and Hope on My Journey to Motherhood

$24.95 • Hardback • 320 pages • 6.1x9.2 December 2021 • BIO026000 978-0-71-719183-3

In early 2020, Rosanna Davison gave a raw and sincere account of the 14 miscarriages she had suffered before choosing to have a baby via gestational surrogate. Then, just weeks later, she discovered she was pregnant with identical twin boys, conceived naturally. In this heartfelt and honest book, Rosanna reveals her difficult journey to motherhood and examines the stigma and silence that surrounds infertility. Shining a light on miscarriage and motherhood, Rosanna tells her story.

Robert Sheehan

$27.95 • Hardback • 272 pages 5.3x8.5 • November 2021 • FIC029000 978-0-71-718970-0

Robert Sheehan is one of Ireland’s brightest stars of the screen, both at home and abroad. Best known for his roles in Love/Hate and The Umbrella Academy, Sheehan has received widespread critical acclaim for his acting talent. In his debut collection of short stories, he disappears into characters, challenging the complacencies of everyday experience, often from entirely unexpected angles. Surreal, intelligent, dark, and provocative, the collection presents a multitude of observations that will stay with the reader long after the book is finished. Informed by the author’s peripatetic life, Disappearing Act reflects on the absurdity of human behavior. Sheehan delves deep into his characters’ streams of self-talk and self-imposed delusions, and explores the dark impulses that lurk below the shiny surfaces of many outwardly normal lives. Warning: Contains Adult Content

An Optimist’s Guide to Ireland at 100 Mark Henry

$27.95 • Hardback • 390 pages 6.7x9.4 • November 2021 • HIS018000 978-0-71-719038-6

If you follow the headlines, you could be forgiven for thinking that things in Ireland in 2021 are worse than ever. In fact, we live longer than ever before, we have never been healthier or better educated, we earn five times more than our grandparents did, our personal freedoms exceed those of any previous generation, and the lives of women and children have been transformed for the better. At a time when some good news is welcome, this uplifting book tells our national story through facts and stats, placing Ireland under the microscope to chart 100 undeniable achievements of the past 100 years. When the State was formed, Ireland was one of the most poverty-stricken nations in Europe. Now it has the second-highest standard of living in the world. While there is still more to be done, In Fact illustrates that Ireland, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than you might think.

An Extraordinary Year in the Life of an Immunologist Professor Luke O'Neill

$22.95 • Hardback • 320 pages • 6.1x9.2 December 2021 • BIO017000 978-0-71-719181-9

Take a front row seat with Professor Luke O’Neill on a high-octane year. Luke has become one of the most well-known and trusted voices of Ireland’s COVID-19 pandemic. A world-renowned immunologist, he was thrust into the spotlight as we struggled to make sense of a crisis that saw the country grind to a halt. In these compelling diaries, Luke reveals what life was like behind the scenes as he endeavored to keep calm and trust that the science would save us. Shot through with natural positivity and humor, Keep Calm and Trust the Science is an unputdownable account of one of the most dramatic years in Irish history from one of its key players.

Lessons From the Front Ray Goggins

$22.95 • Paperback 304 pages • 6.1x9.2 October 2021 BIO026000 978-0-71-719249-6

From the hills of south Lebanon to the monsoon jungles of Southern Asia, Ray Goggins has operated in a life-and-death world. In the suffocating humidity of Liberia, the mountains of Afghanistan and the snow-covered Balkans, Ray has seen the best and worst qualities in himself and others. From conflict zones to terrorist attacks and hostage rescues, Ray has learned the greatest life lessons: how to control fear, how to react calmly and positively, and how to create a strong baseline from which to take action. Ray now trains others to foster a mindset to handle whatever madness life has in store. In this remarkable book, he takes us on an exhilarating journey through his incredible career and draws on the valuable lessons to help all of us deal better with life, whatever the situation.

The Making of a World Class Endurance Cyclist Joe Barr

$29.95 • Hardback 304 pages • 6.1x9.2 December 2021 BIO026000 • 978-0-71-719060-7

In 2012, Joe Barr almost died from altitude sickness on the infamous 11,000-ft Wolf Creek Pass in a Race Across America attempt. The infamous 3,200-mile race is non-stop, ultra-cycling at its most extreme. In 2014, Joe returned and received the coveted Finisher’s medal, and in 2019, at the age of 60, he went back again and won his category. This story of extreme perseverance begins on a yellow Raleigh Chopper on the streets of Co. Derry, where Joe, trying to escape the harsh everyday reality of the Troubles as a young Catholic boy in an all-Protestant school, went on long bicycle rides into the countryside, dreaming of one day taking part in cycling’s grand tours.

Katie O'Donoghue

$17.95 • Hardback • 64 pages • 6.1x9.3 December 2021 • JUV002160 978-0-71-719230-4

Little Squirrel hasn’t left his nest since last autumn. He needs to gather nuts for the long winter to come but he’s too worried to leave his cozy nest. Luckily, Little Squirrel has lots of friends in the forest, from Wren to Snuffly Hedgehog, Grey Rabbit to Mister Fox, Old Badger to Great Stag. Will their encouragement and words of advice be enough to help Little Squirrel to venture out? A wonderfully timely story, beautifully illustrated and gently told.

Lucy Kennedy Phillip Cullen

$17.95 • Hardback • 160 pages 6.1x8.5 • December 2021 • JUV012030 978-0-71-718966-3

It’s summer, and the Friendship Fairies, Emme, Holly, and Jess, are off to Camp Tír na nÓg to help Sir Prize mind his animals and learn lots about looking after the environment. But the Barns boys are going too, so you can be sure there’ll be trouble! Will Emme be able to help clean the ocean? Will Jess meet the magical people who live in the forest? But most importantly, will Holly manage to earn the trust of Riley, the rescued Chunga-Wunga? As always with the Friendship Fairies, it’s going to be an adventure!

Dermot Whelan

$16.95 • Hardback • 272 pages • 5.3x8.5 January 2022 • JUV001000 978-0-71-719185-7

Meet Noni. She’s a crazy old, law-breaking, chocolate-selling, pram-wielding, wickedly funny woman who likes nothing more than a dangerous caper! Someone has tampered with the city’s supply of chocolate and now Noni and her young friends must find out who did it before the evil tricksters poison the whole town - including the dreamy rugby star, Chunks McSturdy. Can Noni and her pram of seriously dodgy treats overcome the odds and get to the bottom of the mystery before all hell breaks loose? Will her pet raven, Francis, ever find enlightenment? Will anyone ever teach Noni to say the word ‘chocolate’ properly? Get ready for lots of laughs, tons of adventure and truck loads of chawwwklit!

Paul O'Flynn

$11.95 • Hardback • 174 pages • 5.1x7.8 October 2021 • JNF007100 978-0-71-719082-9

There are parts of Ireland where hurling is life. Where it’s the first thing you think about when you wake up, and where you’ll be hitting the small ball until bedtime. Luckily for young Henry Shefflin, his home village of Ballyhale in County Kilkenny is one such place. Henry is from a hurling stronghold where every thought is about the next point, the next goal, the next match. But there’s only one match anyone talks about come September – the All-Ireland Final. Can Henry be as good a hurler as his father and brothers? Can he train hard and overcome injuries and disappointments to one day play at Croke Park for his beloved county? King Henry is the incredible story of how Henry Shefflin became the greatest hurling player of all time. "An accessible and entertaining biography for young sports fans, especially appealing for reluctant readers…with all the thrill and excitement of compelling sport commentary." - Children’s Books Ireland

Emer O'Neill Debby Rahmalia

$19.95 • Hardback • 32 pages • 9.8x11.8 • December 2021 • JUV039120 978-0-71-719285-4

Little Emer doesn’t like it when she’s teased for having brown skin and fuzzy hair. She wishes she could look like everyone else. But with a little help from mom, Emer soon learns that we’re all the same but different - and life is better that way!

Peter Donnelly

$19.95 • Hardback • 32 pages • 11x9.3 • December 2021 • JUV013000 978-0-71-719363-9

Up on the mountain we followed a small path through the woods… So begins the latest story from the award-winning author and illustrator Peter Donnelly. Follow the family throughout a year of nature walks as they collect leaves, take shelter beneath a giant oak, feel the sun on their skin and breathe in the cool, fresh air. Life is good up on the mountain. Put on your boots and come along too!

David McCullagh Graham Corcoran

$34.95 • Hardback • 96 pages • 10.7x14.6 December 2021 • JNF043000 978-0-71-719028-7

Join political buff David McCullagh and illustrator Graham Corcoran as they guide you through all the things that make Ireland work. Why do we have a president and a Taoiseach? What is the Seanad and why can only some citizens vote in its elections? Who makes the rules for Ireland and how are they enforced? And what do we do if we want to change them? Learn what it means to be a citizen and the positive role you can play by helping others, protecting what works, and creating change in the world you live in.

Peter Donnelly

$13.95 Hardback 32 pages 6.8x8.1 • October 2021 • JUV030050 978-0-71-719195-6

Today is a very special day. It is the Irish President’s birthday and everyone in the Áras is preparing a birthday party. So while the President is sent out to the Phoenix Park, preparations get underway. Meanwhile, the President enjoys tea and scones and even does a spot of outdoor yoga. But will our forgetful President enjoy his day in the park too much to remember it’s his birthday? Or will it be his turn to surprise everyone?

Nicola Colton

$19.95 Hardback 32 pages 9.8x11.8 • November 2021 • JUV017010 978-0-71-719084-3

To Orla, Christmas means Gran, so when it looks like Gran won’t make it this year, everything feels a lot less festive. And with Christmas spirit everywhere at a low, the whole of Dublin is in darkness. But then the fairy lights on Orla’s Christmas tree come to life and take her on an enchanting adventure. Together, Orla and her new friends attempt to restore the meaning of Christmas and holiday cheer.

Everyday Mind Magic for Creating the Life You Want Keith Barry

$22.95 • Paperback • 320 pages 5.3x8.5 • December 2021 • SEL031000 978-0-71-719192-5

Keith Barry is the world’s leading TV hypnotist, mentalist, and brain hacker. With skills that have been showcased on over 40 international television shows, he has mastered the unique ability to hack into people’s minds and rewire their subconscious. In this groundbreaking book, Keith reveals a variety of techniques that will help you to cultivate a champion mindset and develop mental toughness subconsciously. These are the very techniques he uses himself every day to achieve the things he wants. If you feel you are stuck in any sort of a rut or need help in life – whether that’s in your career, your finances, your personal life, your professional life, or anything else – this book will help you to move forward. When you master these methods, you too can program your mind to have all the success you desire!

Unwreck Your Head, De-stress Your Life Dermot Whelan

$19.95 • Paperback • 256 pages • 6.1x9.2 Currently Available • OCC010000 978-0-71-719179-6

In 2007, comedian and broadcaster Dermot Whelan arrived at a comedy festival in an ambulance after having a panic attack en route. Realizing this was not a sustainable way to travel to future gigs, he decided to become a meditation teacher and learn how to de-stress without annoying the emergency services. Telling Dermot’s own story and offering useful everyday tips and techniques, Mind Full is his funny and accessible guide to meditation. You’ll discover that learning to meditate doesn’t require you to blow up your life and move to Nepal, but it does help you make very small changes that make a long-lasting difference. With exclusive access to Dermot’s guided meditations, Mind Full will help you restore your sense of fulfillment, happiness and true contentment.

Ryan Hennessy Megan Luddy

$17.95 • Hardback • 144 pages 5.1x7.8 • January 2022 • POE005020 978-0-71-719184-0

Influenced by his father’s and grandfather’s poetry, Ryan Hennessy started writing poems as a young boy growing up in Co. Kildare. As lead singer of Picture This, Ryan’s songwriting reveals the unguarded spirit of a young man unafraid to wear his heart on his leopard-print sleeve. In his first book of poetry, Ryan reveals his natural gifts of self-expression to cover topics such as love, relationships, growing up, and identity. At once defiantly romantic and nakedly vulnerable, he deftly chips away at the barriers many young men build in self-defense as he explores the euphoria of young love and its subsequent heartbreak. With striking illustrations by Irish illustrator Megan Luddy, Syncopated Blue features over ninety relatable yet deeply intimate poems, resulting in an extraordinary collection that reflects the free spirit of its creator.

Neven Maguire

$29.95 • Hardback • 240 pages 7.4x9.7 • December 2021 JNF014000 • 978-0-71-719262-5

With many aspiring young chefs getting into the kitchen, it's clear that kids can cook and love to cook! Learn to Cook with Neven is the perfect first cookbook for kids of all ages. It will give them their first 80 step-by-step recipes, accompanied by colorful photography and basic kitchen how-tos. Whilst creating favorites from eggy bread to salmon parcels, fluffy pancakes to homemade pizza, kids will also learn culinary techniques as they go along -- with explanations for chopping, beating, whipping, and baking -- ensuring they learn the right way from the get-go. Learn to Cook with Neven will become a treasured family favorite as it helps children of all ages to discover the endless fun to be had in the kitchen and to learn skills which will stay with them for life.