Simplify: Ten Practices to Unclutter your Soul by Bill Hybels  (Hodder & Stoughton, £9.99) The author is an American minister, but what he recommends in this little book has universal application. Though couched in the language of modern self-help, at the heart of what he puts forward is a recognition of the importance of making…

Jackson Voices on Joyce Edited by Anne Fogarty & Fran O’Rourke (UCD Press €50.00 hb)

The Dark Night of the Shed by Nick Page  (Hodder & Stoughton, £14.99)  Many of us have the wrong dreams, Nick Pages suggests. We don’t need a new Porsche, we need a new purpose. His book is an attempt to come to terms with what our friends the psychologists call the “mid-life crisis”. That sense of…

The Irish Times: 150 Years of Influence by Terence Brown (Bloomsbury Continuum, £25.00)

Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa: Unrepentant Fenian by Shane Kenna (Merrion Press, €21.99)

Books Editor  The view from the priest’s window In recent years we have seen the publication of many memoirs by Irish missionary priests. Dealing as they do with exotic lands, and often troubled people, these books are always of interest. There is always something in them for us stay-at-homes to learn.  But perhaps what we…

Arimathea by Frank McGuinness (Brandon, €11.99)

Walk with Me into the Light: Some Comfort on the Journey through Grief by Margaret T. Naughton (Sacred Heart Messenger Publications, €3.99)   This brief brochure is intended to provide immediate comfort to the grieving in a difficult time of transition. The loss of a loved one can be a very traumatic experience, one of the…

In the Shelter: Finding Welcome in the Here and Now by Pádraig Ó Tuama (Hachette Books Ireland, €16.99)

Michael Collins Himself by Chrissy Osborne (Mercier Press, €14.99)