Books published by publisher Dufour Editions

Two boys meet in a deserted mill near the River Boyne in July 1798. One is Tom Howlett, whose family supports the Rebellion. The other is George Tyrell of an ancient Norman family whose father, the high sheriff of Kildare, is charged with its suppression. An hour later they will be on opposing sides in the crucial and fierce battle of Clonard in County Wexford, in Ireland's great civil war against England. A vivid recreation of those fateful days brings to life the armies, the marches, the councils of war, the camp followers, and the dilemma of loyalties.

Dublin Bike, Tractor, Luas, DART: it’s all in My First Book of Irish Vehicles.Discover things that go with this fun and engaging baby board book. My First Book of Irish Vehicles is filled with different kinds of transport from bikes to trucks and boats to planes and everything in between. Babies will learn to recognise the vehicles moving around them with this compact book.With simple text and pictures, this bright and colourful book is perfect for babies learning how to understand the world around them.

Maeve and cousin Leo go with Jamie to County Kildare where his grandfather is buying horses. Their hostess introduces them to David and his mother who have come to Ireland to trace their roots. However, David, who is from Australia, is part aborigine-can he have Irish roots? The three friends decide to help in his search and get involved in local research, dinner parties, racist threats, and ghost-spotting.

Unlike the malicious bravado of Dan Yack, Confessions is a bittersweet memoir of love and loss in which the typically earthy, reckless Blaise Cendrars surface is shot through with profound melancholy and a palpable sense of psycho-sexual disturbance. Yack tells the story of his tender love for the young Mireille (daughter of one of his many mistresses) whom he meets in a Paris gone mad on Armistice night, 1918. This love transforms him; he abandons his women, gives up fast cars and debauchery to marry this convent-educated girl of his dreams. To indulge her fantasies he launches her as a film star by creating films for her and casting her in wraith-like roles inspired by Edgar Allan Poe. But she's struck by a mysterious and fatal illness that raises some disturbing questions about the nature of their relationship. Poet, lover, war hero, and adventurer, Cendrars led a life as glamorous as Hemingway tried to make his seem, and this novel reads like the original black-and-white original of which A Moveable Feast was the glossy re-make.""--Michael Dibdin