A memoir of childhood in Ireland, shaped by poverty, faith, and family hardship. It keeps a strained sense of humor even as it traces the pain of memory and the will to survive.

A grim childhood is told with quiet humor.

A journalist reporting from the Bosnian War traces the point where ordinary life gives way to violence. Personal testimony and wartime cruelty are tightly intertwined throughout.

A field-level account of how war reshapes human relationships.

Set during India’s 1975 Emergency, this novel lets four lives slowly intersect. Within the weight of history, solidarity and stubborn dignity keep coming back into view.

A long, ծանր novel that still leaves room for human endurance.

This nonfiction book treats the Black Sea coast as a crossroads of myth, trade, empire, and borderland history. It rereads the meeting point of Europe and Asia through the sea itself.

A history where sea, myth, and empire overlap.

A poetry collection built from family, marriage, and childhood memory. It explores intimacy and social distance in a voice that is delicate, controlled, and precise.

Private memory becomes a way to reconsider the shape of relationships.

A clear, accessible guide to scientific skepticism as a practical tool for everyday judgment. It presents an approach to pseudoscience and superstition in an inviting, conversational voice.

It connects trust in science to the choices people make every day.