A State of MindIn mid 1970s rural Wicklow, John Hughes, a once feted journalist author with writers block, reflects on recent events. When English author William Cromer and his German lover Ingrid move to the Old Rectory nearby, their lives are transformed and an alcohol fuelled affair begins. Hughes puts at risk everything he has ever loved his wife Laura, teenage daughter Rachael and the bucolic ease of their quiet corner of Ireland. Nationalist resentment of this

A life of the celebrated Victorian traveller and the discoverer of "the Mountains of the Moon"

incisive style

food production

worn by time and held high in affection by the enchanted visitors who stepped inside its lofty paradise

slouching through their twenties together

beautifully written story

know that theirs is a hopeless cause

Re-issued for the first time since its publication in 1997

attending the Model School

biographer

with her vivid experiences of the Great War

After the passage of the Act of Union