Nicolas Roche wins Sports Book of the Year!

Congratulations to Transworld Ireland author Nicolas Roche for winning Sports Book of the Year at the recent Irish Book Awards for his autobiography Inside the Peloton. More on Nicolas’s book below.

Christmas is just around the corner, and here at Transworld Ireland we have some great gift ideas for the readers in your life, with autobiographies from Joe Duffy, Donncha O’Callaghan, Nicolas Roche and Sister Stan, as well as some classics, old and new.

Donncha O’Callaghan is a legend of Munster and Irish rugby, a key figure in the Irish team which won the IRB 6 Nations Grand Slam in 2009, and winner of two Heineken Cup medals and two Magners League titles with Munster. His honest and revealing autobiography, Joking Apart, which includes details of the recent World Cup campaign, gives the full picture, showing sides of the man that will be unfamiliar to followers of Irish rugby.

Gay Byrne has described Joe Duffy’s searing, raw autobiography, Just Joe as “beautifully written, honest and thoroughly enjoyable”. Joe recounts his difficult childhood in Ballyfermot, his growing sense of social justice in Trinity College Dublin, and his rise to the top in radio, from his early days as a reporter for The Gay Byrne Show to his often-controversial tenure at the helm of Liveline. This book is a revelation to those who think they know the real Joe Duffy; a deeply felt and fascinating memoir, it shows him to be a complex, passionate man.

Recently published is Nicolas Roche’s Inside the Peloton: My Life as a Professional Cyclist, in which Ireland’s top cyclist, son of Tour de France winner Stephen Roche, provides a fascinating insight into life in this toughest of competitive sports. Expanded from his acclaimed Irish Independent tour diaries, this is a gripping cycling adventure.

Also for sports fans is a gem of a book from the late George Kimball, one of the greatest boxing writers of his generations. Manly Art: Dispatches from Ringsidecompiles the best of his boxing-related commentary, criticism, reportage and analysis from the last ten years. It is a fitting tribute to George’s long association with the sport of boxing and displays just why he is so warmly regarded.

Sister Stan’s The Road Home: My Journey is an inspiring, thought-provoking memoir of one of the most influential social activists of our day, from her early years in the Dingle Peninsula, through her decision, at the age of 18, to become a nun, right up to her innovative work in setting up social justice agencies such as Focus Ireland and the Immigrant Council of Ireland.

First published in 1991, John Waters’s Jiving at the Crossroads was a phenomenal bestseller, capturing the zeitgeist of a tumultuous time in Irish political and social history. Now available is this twentieth-anniversary edition, with a new Afterword by the author; it will be welcomed by those who remember it and will be a fascinating insight for a new generation.

Conor O’Clery’s Moscow, December 25, 1991: The Last Day of the Soviet Union is a remarkable, superbly written account of one of the most momentous days in modern world history. It captures the drama and detail of the fall of the USSR, focusing on the bitter rivalry between Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin. According to the Irish Independent, ‘O’Clery succeeds brilliantly in recreating the febrile atmosphere of Kremlin intrigue, rivalry and plain nastiness’.

Recent non-fiction titles include David Monagan’s Ireland Unhinged: Encounters with a Wildly Changing Country and Jarlath Regan’s Putting A Ring On It: What Not To Do When Attempting To Get Married. Fiction titles include Patricia Scanlan’s latest number one bestseller, Love and Marriage; Marita Conlon-McKenna’s A Taste for Love and, for crime fiction fans, Niamh O’Connor’s Taken.

Find out more about other Transworld Ireland titles in our Books section.

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