Author:Tim Pat Coogan
Ireland's bestselling popular historian tells the story of contemporary Ireland - controversial, authoritative and highly readable. Tim Pat Coogan's biographies of Michael Collins and DeValera and his studies of the IRA, the Troubles and the Irish Diaspora have transformed our understanding of contemporary Ireland, and all have been massive bestsellers. Now he has produced a major history of Ireland in the twentieth century. Covering both South and North and dealing with cultural and social history as well as political, this enthralling work will become the definitive single-volume account of the making of modern Ireland.
A journey into our own psyche ... Tim Pat Coogan has dug, Heaney-like, into the past while opening doors to faraway places
—— Frank McCourtIt is the result of great energy, imagination and painstaking detective work ... It is a big book on a big topic. Don't just read it. Buy it and reread it
—— Irish TimesVividly painted - A tour de force, delivered in Tim Pat Coogan's inimitable style
—— Ireland on SundayBrimming with life, colour, and yes, facts too
—— Daily TelegraphA fluent and lively account
—— Guardianextensive knowledge...uses her sources to good effect
—— Jonathan Mirsky , Literary ReviewFascinating history...Sian Rees is to be congratulated on telling the story so vividly
—— Ian Thomson , Times Literary SupplementAll in all it is a complex tale of cruelty, skulduggery, diplomacy, high principles, naval action and the like, but all held together well and told very readably
—— www.thebookbag.co.ukThe book is a joy to read: well-written and fast-paced... Rees succeeds admirably in bringing to life the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade...
—— Emma Christopher , History TodayA live and amusing... interesting and entertaining read
—— TNT MagazineThe author of Suite Francaise had a life as dramatic and as tragic as her fiction
—— Telegraph ReviewA fascinating biography
—— Lesley McDowell , HeraldThis book is excellent
—— Andrew Holgate , Sunday TimesThis dramatic biography recreates her tragic life and the turbulent times in which she lived...Nemirovsky is one of those rare writers whose life is every bit as interesting as her work
—— Simon Shaw , Mail on SundayThis is a scholarly biography of a literary paragon... It is saturated with her writings, revealing her passions, hubris, moods and anxieties, as well as her thoughts of fiction, Jewishness and mothers... Russian social history, anti-Semitism and the Vichy regime's collusion with the Nazis are handled adroitly
—— Maggie Armstrong , Irish Timesa terrifically entertaining read
—— Carla McKay , Daily Mailextremely diverting, essentially kind-hearted and well written
—— William Leith , Evening Standard