In the Limelight

With summer just around the corner, Transworld Ireland have a broad range of new fiction titles for your enjoyment.

Just out is bestselling author Anita Notaro’s new novel, A Moment Like This, an emotional, evocative tale of a shy young woman with a stunning singing voice, who is suddenly thrust into the limelight after her friends encourage her to audition for a television talent show.

Also available for lovers of romantic fiction is Marita Conlon-McKenna’s Three Women, another beautifully told tale of passion, where the past comes back to haunt the title characters. Are family secrets best kept hidden? Marita’s A Taste for Love is also now available in paperback.

Patricia Scanlan’s Love and Marriage once again stormed to number one in the paperback fiction chart. Families in crisis, passion, tragedy, and the healing powers of love – Patricia’s brilliant and heartwarming novel re-introduces us to the characters in Forgive and Forgetand Happy Ever After, and brings their story to a triumphant conclusion.

In June, watch out for Emily Gillmor Murphy’s You and I; a coming-of-age love story and a sharp look at a changing Dublin, this is a brilliant debut from a talented new voice in Irish contemporary storytelling.

We also have some great reading for thriller fans. Niamh O’Connor’s adrenaline-fuelled Taken is out now in paperback. Featuring tough cop Jo Birmingham, Taken delves into Dublin’s hidden dark side when a child is kidnapped from his mother. Look out also for Niamh’s new novel, Too Close For Comfort (out in June), where Jo Birmingham uncovers a web of secrecy and betrayal in suburban Dublin, after a woman’s body is found in a shallow grave in the Dublin mountains.

Ken Bruen’s Headstone may be his darkest novel yet, with rugged PI Jack Taylor close to breaking point as he faces a sinister gang intent on attacking society’s most vulnerable.

We also have some strong non-fiction titles forthcoming and recently published. John Waters’ Was It For This?: Why Ireland Lost the Plot is a brilliant, searing analysis of what has gone wrong in Irish politics and society, and is sure to fuel the debate about how we can solve our problems. Going deeper than other recent books, which have focused on the economy, John controversially claims that the seeds or our current crisis were sown long before the Celtic Tiger was even a dream. Also available is a reissue of John phenomenal 1991 bestseller Jiving at the Crossroads.

Out now in paperback, Donncha O’Callaghan’s honest and revealing autobiography, Joking Apart, was the bestselling sports book of 2011. A legend of Munster and Irish rugby, Donncha shows sides of the man that will be unfamiliar to followers of Irish rugby.

Gay Byrne described Joe Duffy’s searing, raw autobiography, Just Joe, as “beautifully written, honest and thoroughly enjoyable”. This book is a revelation to those who think they know the real Joe Duffy; a deeply felt and fascinating memoir, it shows him to be a complex, passionate man.

Other forthcoming titles include the paperbacks of Nicolas Roche’s Inside the Peloton: My Life as a Professional Cyclist, which was the worthy winner of the Irish Sports Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards; and Conor O’Clery’s Moscow, December 25, 1991: The Last Day Of The Soviet Union, a remarkable, superbly written account of one of the most momentous days in modern world history.

Find out more about other Transworld Ireland titles in our Books section.

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Transworld Ireland was created in 2007 as an imprint of The Random House Group. We are committed to publishing a wide range of high-quality books of Irish interest, in both fiction and non-fiction.