Guest from the West: Lessons for the West from a Lifetime in the East by Hugh MacMahon (Original Writing, €15.00 pb; ISBN: 978-1-78237-849-5)

Cotton Wool Kids: What’s making Irish parents paranoid? by Stella O’Malley (Mercier Press, €14.99)

Walking the Camino along the north shore of Spain to Santiago de Compostela has become perhaps the most active pilgrim route in the world. All kinds of people undertake the excursion, not all of them Christians by any means. This very personal book is an account of one such by a Catholic woman from Wexford,…

The recent attacks on young men with intellectual disabilities in Cork and in Dublin, have received great deal of media attention, and rightly so. But the true nature of what “learning disabilities means” often escapes them. Ruth Chipperfield will enlighten them. This is truly the story of an exceptional man, her brother Gordon Cochran, exceptional…

World of books by the books editor

Give Dust a Tongue: A Faith & Poetry Memoir by John F. Deane (The Columba Press, €19.99)

Hidden in Christ: Living as God’s Beloved by James Bryan Smith (Hodder & Stoughton, £8.99)

A Terrible Beauty: Poetry of 1916 selected by Mairéad Ashe Fitzgerald (O’Brien Press, €14.99)

Latin Psalter Manuscripts in Trinity College Dublin and the Chester Beatty Library

The other week at the Trinity College Books sale, one of the high holidays for Irish books lovers, I picked up a book published in 1935 – the whole purpose of such a sale is to enable people like myself to rediscover older books as an escape from the tidal waves of new ones that…