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January The Food Nanny
9780717154715
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Anna Burns
From Ordinary to Extraordinary
9780717152926
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Brian Colbert
The Money Doctor
9780717154302
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Sophie Kooks January
56931/56948
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Sophie Morris
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Laurence Flanagan
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Sophie Morris
John Lowe
FEBRUARY A Pocket History of Scotland
9780717153725
Favourite Irish Names for your Baby
9780717156191
Sophie Kooks February
56917/56924
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Blair Millar •
MARCH Strumpet City
9780717156108
Blazing Salads 2
9780717150564
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James Plunkett
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Lorraine Fitzmaurice
The Courage to Love
9780717151059
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Dr Colm O’Connor
The Charismatic Edge
9780717156085
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Owen Fitzpatrick
Sophie Kooks March
56993/57006
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Sophie Morris
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TBA
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Sophie Morris
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Tomás O’Crohan
APRIL Paid For
9780717156023
Sophie Kooks April
56856/56863
The Islander
9780717157945
may Memory Man
9780717157921
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Jimmy Magee
Just Mary
9780717157938
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Mary O’Rourke
Sophie Kooks May
57013/57020
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Sophie Morris
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Richard Curran and Tom Lyons
Publication date to be confirmed Fingers
9780717155835
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Welco m e to the G ill & Mac m illan catalogue o f ne w boo k s . We believe books are good for you, and this spring, we hope you’ll be inspired by our authors to make some changes to your life, learn a new skill, or expand your mind by discovering something you didn’t already know. Highlights this season include: • Newcomer Anna Burns’ timely book The Food Nanny, which presents some starK facts about Ireland’s eating habits and outlines ten no-nonsense rules for families to get back on track • The return of bestselling NLP expert Brian Colbert, who will show you how to go From Ordinary to Extraordinary, equipping you with the mind tools to overcome any barriers to success • Leading journalists Tom Lyons and Richard Curran’s exposé of Michael Fingleton, the man who brought down Irish Nationwide and cost taxpayers €5.4 million
Of course it wouldn’t be a Gill & Macmillan catalogue without some cookery, and continuing our ‘good for you’ theme, Blazing Salads 2 is packed with honest-to-goodness vegetarian wholefood that promises to raise your energy levels and boost your sense of well-being. And if all that isn’t enough, catch up on some of last autumn’s great reads now available in paperback and enjoy once again the epic Strumpet City – this year’s One City, One Book selected by Dublin City Libraries, in commemoration of the 1913 Lockout. We hope there’s something here for you. Now get reading – it’s good for you!
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S pring boo k s brought to y ou b y
The Publishers Fergal T obin an d N ic k i H o w ar d
The Managing Editors Deir d re R ennison Kun z an d C atherine G ough
The Production Chief Mair Ê a d O ’ Kee f f e
The Production Controllers Jenni f er B ra d y an d A nna C arroll
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The Publicist T eresa Dal y
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The Staples that Bind the Process Together L in d a Murph y , Deborah Marsh an d A u d re y Flanagan
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parenting
January 2013 192 pp 216 x 135 mm 978 0 7171 5471 5 €14.99 / £12.99 Paperback and ebook
The Food Nanny The 10 Food Rules to Prevent a Frighteningly Fat Future for Your Kids Anna Burns au t ho r
Having graduated from Trinity College Dublin and UCC with a Masters Degree in Nutrition, Anna Burns has amassed over seventeen years’ experience in the field of nutrition. She runs her own nutrition consultancy and delivers corporate nutrition training country-wide. Anna lives in Cork with her husband and four children, who have, unwittingly, been her subjects for testing her old-fashioned approach to healthy eating.
ANNA B URN S I S Supernanny for your kitchen. She shows you how to bring discipline back to your family table and to teach your children good food habits for life.
Straight-talking, witty, but brutally honest, The Food Nanny will give you the only rules you’ll ever need to teach your children to be happy, healthy eaters who are full of beans. If you want to do better for your kids, if you want to save them from a lifetime of yo-yo dieting, if you want to help turn around Ireland’s obesity crisis, then The Food Nanny is for you.
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sel f help
january 2013 256 pp 216 x 135 mm 978 0 7171 5292 6 €14.99 / £12.99 Paperback and ebook
From Ordinary to Extraordinary How to Live an Exceptional Life Brian Colbert Au t ho r
Brian Colbert is a motivational speaker and is regarded as one of the most prominent and successful mind coaches in Ireland today. He is a licensed Master Trainer of NLP and co-founder of the Irish Institute of NLP. Brian features regularly on Irish television, radio and newspapers. His previous book, The Happiness Habit, was a bestseller.
I F YOU F E E L at times that life is just passing you by
… or if you feel that you are being distracted from being your best. If you know you could do it given half the chance – then this is the book for you! Many of us think that you have to be born talented to succeed. However, recent scientific research has proven that the genes you are born with are open to influence. In this book Brian Colbert will teach you how to reprogram your mind for success and show you the practical tools and techniques to transform your life into the special experience you deserve to have.
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sel f help
march 2013 256 pp 216 x 135 mm 978 0 7171 5105 9 €14.99 / £12.99 Paperback and ebook
The Courage to Love Surviving and Thriving in your Relationship Dr Colm O’Connor AUT H O R
Dr Colm O’Connor is a clinical psychologist and family therapist with over twenty years’ experience working as Clinical Director of a large couples counselling agency in Cork. Author of The Courage to Be Happy, he has lectured widely on marriage and couples therapy for many years.
D r c o lm o ’c o n n o r helps readers understand why their relationship is as it is and how to diagnose the sources of dissatisfaction and distress. It answers common questions that couples ask such as:
• ‘Why do we constantly argue about trivial things?’ • ‘Why can’t we communicate properly?’ • ‘If we love each other, why is this relationship so hard?’ Dr O’Connor reveals the secret life of couples by uncovering the invisible dialogue that is constantly flowing between spouses. At a practical level it presents the four inevitable marital conflicts and relationship types; the three dimensions of love – how you give, accept and hold on to love – and the five currencies of intimacy. The book is a practical guide to managing close personal relationships.
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sel f help
march 2013 272 pp 216 x 135 mm 978 0 7171 5608 5 €14.99 / £12.99 Paperback and ebook
The Charismatic Edge The Art of Captivating and Compelling Communication Owen Fitzpatrick Au t ho r
Owen Fitzpatrick is a psychologist and an expert on Charisma, NLP and High Performance. He is founder of the Online Charisma Training Academy, cofounder of the Irish Institute of NLP and co-author of three books with Dr Richard Bandler (co-founder of NLP). Owen lives in Dublin.
w he t he r yo u a r e looking to get a promotion, become a better leader, master public speaking, build your business, sell more, improve your love life, social life or even your networking skills … you need to be more effective at making an impact on others. Charisma is a must. And here’s the good news: you can learn it.
In this book you’ll learn the secrets that the best speakers know about impacting their audience, the keys to supreme self-confidence and high self-esteem and how you can use your body, voice and energy to influence others.
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re f erence
January 2013 400 pp 245 x 175 mm 978 0 7171 5430 2 €10.99 / £9.99 Paperback
The Money Doctor 2013 Make Your Money Go Further John Lowe Au t ho r
John Lowe, The Money Doctor, has over thirty years’ experience in the finance sector. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Bankers, has successfully completed the Chartered Director Programme through the Institute of Directors and is a member of the Life Insurance Association. John is also managing director of Money Doctor, the trading name of Providence Finance Services Limited, which is a fully authorised and independent financial advisory company and regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland.
Fo r y e a r s , J o h n l ow e ’ s bestselling money
guide has helped thousands of people understand money, get to grips with the basics of budgeting, and learn how to save cash in all areas of their lives. Whether you buy this book every year or you are looking for help for the first time, you can trust the Money Doctor to give you independent, straight-talking, experienced advice. Reasons to turn to The Money Doctor 2013: • Packed with insider tips to save and make you money • Full of practical solutions to every conceivable financial issue including your financial rights and how to assert them • It’s bang up to date, including Budget 2013 and updates from the past year throughout the book • A new chapter on personal insolvency, bankruptcy and the Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process (MARP) – understand your entitlements
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A utobiograph y
april 2013 320 pp 234 x 156 mm 978 0 7171 5602 3 â‚Ź14.99 / ÂŁ12.99 Paperback and ebook
Paid For My Journey Through Prostitution TBA AUT H O R
After leaving prostitution and gaining her degree, the author found therapy in writing this book, which took ten years to complete. She lives in Dublin.
This au t h o r ca me from a difficult family background. She was homeless from fourteen and got involved in prostitution at fifteen. For the next seven years she was a prostitute in Dublin and other Irish cities. At the age of 22 she was liberated from life as a prostitute and got on the path to further education and ultimately a degree.
Paid For is her own story in her own words and in her own name. This is a book of startling originality, courage and honesty. It tells the story of a hidden world, one which is often trivialised and glamorised, with clarity and an eloquence that is quite unique. Paid For tears away the veil that shrouds prostitution and, from her own experience, tells us the truth. .
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C U R R E N T A FF A I R S
SPRING 2013 256 pp 234 x 156 mm 978 0 7171 5583 5 €14.99 / £12.99 Paperback and ebook
Fingers The Man Who Brought Down Irish Nationwide and cost us €5.4bn Richard Curran & Tom Lyons Au t ho r s
Richard Curran is a former Deputy Editor of the Sunday Business Post and continues to contribute to it as well as being presenter of ‘Dragons’ Den’. Richard lives in Co Donegal. Tom Lyons is a business journalist with the Sunday Independent and co-author of The FitzPatrick Tapes. Tom lives in Dublin.
F i n g e r s is t he first book about a key player in the
Irish Crash who has escaped scrutiny until now. Here Richard Curran and Tom Lyons take readers into the world of Michael Fingleton. He ran Irish Nationwide Building Society as his own personal banking fiefdom, taking it from the dizzy heights of success and eventually bringing it down at a cost of €5.4 billion to the Irish taxpayer. Curran and Lyons provide an insight into the personality, career and power of a man who took a tiny building society from obscurity to profitability, and then to ruin, revealing a more intriguing and complex character than other bankers who hit the headlines in recent years.
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FICTION
MARCH 2013 568 pp 197 x 129 mm 978 0 7171 5610 8 €10.99 / £9.99 paperback and ebook
Strumpet City James Plunkett With an Introduction by Fintan O’Toole Au t ho r s
The late James Plunkett drew on his city centre working-class background, and his commitment to the labour movement, as the background for his fiction. Strumpet City is acknowledged as his masterpiece. His other novels include Farewell Companions and The Circus Animals. Fintan O’Toole is a respected and controversial political and cultural commentator, and an acclaimed biographer and critic. His books include recent bestsellers Ship of Fools, and its sequel Enough is Enough. He lives in Dublin and is a columnist for the Irish Times.
Re- iss u e d fo r D u bli n City Public Libraries’ One City, One Book choice for 2013, Strumpet City is simply one of the best Irish novels of the twentieth century and an enduring classic. Set in Dublin during the Lockout of 1913, it is a panoramic novel of city life.
The novel’s popularity derives from its realism and its naturalistic presentation of traumatic historical events. There are clear heroes and villains. The book is informed by a sense of moral outrage at the treatment of the locked-out trade unionists, the indifference and evasion of the city’s clergy and middle class and the squalor and degradation of the tenement slums. Fintan O’Toole’s introduction reminds us why this book is every bit as relevant for today’s times.
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COOKERY
March 2013 224 pp 247 x 189 mm 978 0 7171 5056 4 €19.99 / £17.99 80 Colour Illustrations Hardback and ebook
Blazing Salads 2 Good Food Every Day Lorraine Fitzmaurice Au t ho r
Lorraine Fitzmaurice and her siblings opened the Blazing Salads deli on Dublin’s Drury Street in 2000 when she and her sister realised one lunch break that there was nowhere for vegetarians to get decent food. It continues to be a popular place among vegetarians and nonvegetarians alike. Lorraine lives with her family in Clontarf, Dublin.
D u bli n ’ s B l a z i n g S a l a d s has been serving up
honest-to-goodness vegetarian wholefood to many fans over the last decade, distilling two generations and four decades of the Fitzmaurice family’s food philosophy. If you need to find vegetarian, vegan, gluten- and dairyfree recipes, or if you simply want more ideas on how to up your veg intake, this book will inspire you to eat well every day and enjoy the added benefits of higher energy levels and a sense of well-being. It includes protein-packed soups to keep you going throughout the day, family-friendly dinners such as Spinach and Ricotta Cannelloni, Summer Leek Tart and Winter Vegetable Pie, party food, picnic ideas and gorgeous sweet treats.
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COOKERY
October 2012 to September 2013 €1.99 / £1.50 ebook
Sophie Kooks ... Month-byMonth Sophie Morris Au t ho r
Sophie Morris is an energetic 28 year old and owner of the rapidly expanding, innovative and exciting young Irish food company Kooky Dough. She has an MSc distinction in Economics from Trinity College Dublin. Sophie developed her intense passion for food when she completed the twelve-week Ballymaloe cookery course. Her first cookbook, from which this digital short is taken, Sophie Kooks won the Kerrygold Listowel Food Fair Book of the Year 2012. Sophie recently won Image Magazine’s Young Business Woman of the Year Award for 2012.
B UY YOUR R E C I P E S just when you need them...
month-by-month, bite-sized, chunks of the award-winning Sophie Kooks. Discover tips on using seasonal produce with eight quick and easy recipes per month in each e-book short, for your tablet or ereader.
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NEW IN PAPERBACK
MaY 2013 256 pp 197 x 129 mm 978 0 7171 5793 8 €12.99 / £10.99 Paperback and ebook
Just Mary A Memoir Mary O’Rourke Au t ho r
Mary O’Rourke is a former Deputy Leader of her party, who has held a number of senior Cabinet positions. She has also been Leader of the Seanad and is a frequent guest on radio and television.
The phe n o me n a l bes t selle r and winner of
the John Murray Listeners’ Choice Award at the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards 2012 is now in paperback. Irish political memoirs are relatively rare. Even rarer still are political memoirs that are frank, newsworthy and fun, like this one from Mary O’Rourke. She writes of personal and political events; of her family background and her early involvement in politics; of the many senior political figures with whom she worked, including Charles Haughey and Bertie Ahern; of her two dear Brians, her brother and nephew, both of whom died before their time; of her successes and disappointments. She does all this with honesty, energy and a complete absence of self-pity or self-justification.
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NEW IN PAPERBACK
MAY 2013 256 pp 197 x 129 mm 978 0 7171 5792 1 €12.99 / £10.99 Paperback and ebook
Memory Man Jimmy Magee with Jason O’Toole Au t ho r s
Jimmy Magee is an institution in Irish broadcasting life. Jason O’Toole is a wellknown journalist with Hot Press and the Irish Daily Mail, celebrated for his interviews. He is co-author of The End of the Party with Bruce Arnold, as well as a biography of Brian Cowen.
M E M O RY M A N , T H E bestselling memoir of national treasure and legendary sports broadcaster Jimmy Magee, is now in paperback. His extraordinary memory for sports trivia has led to him being known as the Memory Man. He started his career in 1956, and has covered every Olympic Games since 1972 and every soccer World Cup since 1974. Jimmy Magee has been up close and personal for most of the iconic sporting moments in the world and here he gives his unique insight into some of these major sporting moments.
Jimmy’s stellar public career has been marked by private tragedy. His beloved wife Marie died unexpectedly in 1989 and his son Paul tragically lost his battle with motor neurone disease in 2008. Full of anecdotes, humour and poignancy, Memory Man tells all these things and more.
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NEW IN PAPERBACK
april 2013 336 pp 216 x 135 mm 978 0 7171 5794 5 €12.99 / £10.99 Paperback and ebook
The Islander OriginaL Author Tomás O’Crohan, Translated by Garry Bannister & David Sowby Au t ho r s
Garry Bannister works as an Irish language teacher and has lectured at St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra. David Sowby is a medical doctor whose passionate interest in the Irish language has been a lifetime study. He has rendered a translation of Brian Merriman’s Cúirt an Mhean Oíche.
N ow t he fi r s t complete translation of Tomás
O’Crohan’s autobiography is available in paperback. This is the first complete translation of Tomás O’Crohan’s autobiography called in Irish An tOileánach, first published in 1929. This edition is based on Prof. Seán Ó Coileáin’s definitive 2002 Irish language edition, containing many passages omitted from the previous English language translation by Robin Flower from the 1930s, some of which were thought too earthy for the times.
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touris m
February 2013 256 pp 140 x 110 mm 978 0 7171 5372 5 €6.99/£5.99 Hardback
A Pocket History of Scotland Blair Millar
F r o m p r ehis t o r ic t imes to the present day,
this comprehensive history presents the story of Scotland in bite-sized chunks. With full-colour illustrations throughout, this is an attractive and practical guide to Scotland’s colourful history. Encompassing stories of some of Scotland’s best-known characters as well as key moments in Scotland’s past, this pocket history recalls the country’s struggles through dark times, its successes, its people and places. The wealth of Scottish culture and tradition is described, along with the key events and people that have shaped the country today. Based on the bestselling Pocket History of Ireland – 32,000 copies sold since 2010 – this book promises to repeat the bestselling formula for the Scottish market.
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parenting
February 2013 136 pp 197 x 129 mm 978 0 7171 5619 1 €5.99 / £4.99 Paperback and ebook
Favourite Irish Names for Your Baby From Aaron to Úna Laurence Flanagan Au t ho r
The late Laurence Flanagan was a freelance writer and a former Keeper of Antiquities at the Ulster Museum.
S i n ce i t s fi r s t publication twenty years ago, there has been both change and stability among favourite Irish names for children. This book lists and glosses more than 200 of the most popular Irish names for boys and girls.
The stability in the names arises from the fact that the 200 odd favourite names of twenty years ago are still in place. What has changed, however, is the pecking order within the overall list. Forenames of formerly Irish origin have advanced in recent times at the expense of names of English origin, so that for, instance, Seán, Connor and Cian are among the top five boys’ names while all top five girls’ names are purely Irish: Aoife, Ciara, Saoirse, Caoimhe and Niamh.
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Gill & Macmillan Bestsellers SOUNDINGS Poems we did for our Leaving Cert Edited by Augustine Martin PB | €14.99 9780717148417
THE LAST DIET Cook Yourself Thin With Dr Eva By Eva Orsmond PB | €19.99 9780717151080
A POCKET HISTORY OF IRELAND By Joseph McCullough HB | €4.99 9780717147298
Eat Like an Italian Recipes for the Good Life By Catherine Fulvio HB | €22.99 9780717154678
FAVOURITE IRISH LEGENDS Best Loved Tales From Ireland By Yvonne Carroll, Fiona Waters and Felicity Trotman HB | €9.99 9780717148370 20
MAKE, BAKE, LOVE By Lilly Higgins HB | €19.99 9780717150427
A History of Ireland in 250 Episodes By Jonathan Bardon PB | €14.99 9780717146499
HARRY’S MAGIC TABLES Learn your times tables in as little as a week! By Stephanie Moraghan PB | €6.99 9780717151066
BUEN CAMINO! By Peter Murtagh and Natasha Murtagh PB | €16.99 9780717148431
IRELAND’S ARCTIC SIEGE The Big Freeze of 1947 By Kevin C Kearns PB | €14.99 9780717154487
Just Mary A Memoir By Mary O’Rourke
Money Doctor 2013 Make your Money go Further By John Lowe
HB | €22.99 9780717154098
PB | €10.99 9780717154302
Tracing Your Irish Ancestors 4th edition By John Grenham
Coming Through Depression A Mindful Approach to Recovery (Includes audio cd) By Tony Bates
PB | €22.99 9780717150243
PB | €14.00 9780717147809 When Panic Attacks By Áine Tubridy
Memory Man By Jimmy Magee with Jason O’Toole
PB | €19.99 9780717144297
HB | €22.99 9780717153527 The Irish CountryWomen’s Association Cookbook Recipes from our homes to yours By the Irish Countrywomen’s Association
The MacNean Restaurant Cookbook By Neven Maguire HB | €24.99 9780717154395
HB | €22.99 9780717153329 Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales Illustrated by Harry Clarke
The Cold Case Files On the trail of Ireland’s undetected killers By Barry Cummins
HB | €16.99 9780717150236
PB | €14.99 9780717148028
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