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All in a Doctor’s Day by Dr Lucia Gannon
‘I liked to take the patient’s jacket or coat and hang it up while they settled themselves in the chair. It was a way of welcoming people to my space,...
All in a Doctor’s Day by Lucia Gannon
‘Medicine has limits. Human kindness does not.’ All in a Doctor’s Day contains the memoirs of Dr Lucia Gannon, an Irish country GP based in a surgery in the small village...
Constellations: Reflections From Life by Sinéad Gleeson
In her essay titled ‘60,000 Miles of Blood’, Sinéad Gleeson offers a humble explanation as to her collection of personal essays when she says “To commit to writing, or art,...
Minor Monuments by Ian Maleney
People are calling this the golden age of essay writing, as more and more writers pen their own experience analogous to the society and world we live in. Have lived...
Constellations by Sinéad Gleeson
‘Here is the fierce joy and pain of being alive.’ So reads the last line of the blurb on the back of Sinéad Gleeson’s Constellations her collection of personal essays...
Notes to Self by Emilie Pine
‘I write this now to reclaim those parts of me that for so long I so thoroughly denied.’ It is in our nature to gloss over the less than perfect...
Becoming by Michelle Obama
‘Let’s invite one another in. Maybe then we can begin to fear less, to make fewer wrong assumptions, to let go of the biases and stereotypes that unnecessarily divide us.’...
Swerving to Solitude: Letters to Mama by Keki Daruwalla
Swerving to Solitude – Letters to Mama is the thoughtfully layered story of Seema, a spirited 70’s journalist, as she traces her journey and that of her mother’s, aligned with...
Till the Cows Come Home by Lorna Sixsmith
‘One Farm. Two worlds. Three Generations.’ Till the Cows Come Home is the latest book from Lorna Sixsmith packed with memories of an Irish Farming Childhood. Published with Black & White...
The Wife’s Tale by Aida Edemariam
‘A ring was threaded onto her third finger, another onto the man’s. It would be years before she understood what she had promised.’ The Wife’s Tale, a personal history, is...
