You can now purchase titles directly here!
SCHOOLBOY
At top of a hill, a schoolboy awaits the battered yellow school bus that will bring him to his first day of secondary school. He is full of hopes, dreams and excitement, sporting a beret and pony-tail, along with a fresh blue uniform. He tries to ignore his tearful mother looking on from the window. He does not know the bus carries a diverse cast of villains, with a catalogue of tactics to relieve the tedium of teenage angst far removed from today’s sanitised contemporary world. Published by Penniless Press Publications on November 15th 2023.
Order here
CURRENT TITLES
CARAVAN
Gus Watt has gotten into a bit of a fix. Over the course of 24 hours he meets the woman of his dreams – twice. He is unable to let either down and negotiates the pressures of a relationship with the two Marys with disastrous results. The novella was published by Penniless Press on Friday 25th November 2022.
‘[Caravan] offers a rural Ireland full of acute details and nuanced relationships that stay with the reader once the book is finished.’
The Milk House
Order copy here
Your copy will be posted immediately. You should receive it within 14 days.
THE MACKON COUNTRY
The bog swamps of The Mackon rise through the winter, slowly sinking the heather and gorse into a perfect flat surface. Tommy steps further towards the centre, ripples widen around him, then they fade and melt away. The novel was published on December 8th, 2021 by Penniless Press.
Order here
Your copy will be posted immediately. You should receive it within 14 days.
DELIA MEADE
Now the last of Delia Meade’s children have married and moved away, she decides to tidy up the little room under the stairs, known as the Glory-hole. Amongst the forgotten toys, worn-out clothes and dusty boxes of photographs, Delia travels through happy and sad decades of her time at 109, Bog Road. An excerpt of the novel was released as part of Culture Night 2020. Click here to view. The novel was published on November 14, 2020 by Penniless Press.
‘An excellent debut.’
Connaught Telegraph
Your copy will be posted immediately. You should receive it within 14 days.
THE RAINY DAY
Farmers: young and old, cunning, foolish, greedy, generous, talented and forgotten. These and those belonging to them are gathered in this short story collection, sometimes clearly in Ireland’s west, but mostly in an unnamed landscape which shapes those often waiting for that rainy day to come. The Rainy Day was published on 12 December, 2018.
The official launch of the title took place on 15 February, 2019 at Mayo County Library, Castlebar, Co.Mayo, Ireland. It is published by Penniless Press.
‘The Rainy Day […] will really strike a chord with rural readers.
Connaught Telegraph
Order The Rainy Day here
Your copy will be posted immediately. You should receive it within 14 days.
martinkeaveney 