The Last of the Light Book

Delivery to Ireland & Northern Ireland is FREE until December 22nd

“… a moving and beautiful book … I read it right through in one sitting … [the] short stories have the immediacy of direct reporting – a most convincing achievement. This book is beautifully produced, with some really outstanding and evocative photography.” Michael Viney (Irish Times contributor, broadcaster, film-maker and natural-history author)

“Marvelous word works … writes with real power.” - Thomas Lynch (poet & essayist)

A book of night notes, memories, short stories and images from the Loop Head peninsula.

Beautifully produced, this hardback book is covered in a linen-like texture with a raw, embossed motif that echoes throughout. It has a striking, visually discreet logo and a flow of silky, pleasurable pages.

(Hardback, 120 pages, 28 colour images.)

Steeped in the images, textures, characters and lore of the Loop Head peninsula, The Last of the Light is a book like no other.

Filled with stories and meditations that are carefully crafted from a lived experience of this special area, along with prose poems lyrically drawn from the shadowlands of memory, this makes it stand apart. The personal and the historical are mixed amongst its deep currents. It reads, in parts, like a hymn to a holy place. It reads, too, as a  document of identity, a search for authentic living, and an ode to the giving power of the wild.

It is also a testament to the enduring bond of brotherhood, as beneath the pieces flows a quiet, submerged narrative; a minor chord of loss for an absent brother, whose light still lingers everywhere.

You will find it hard to put down, and it will echo in your heart for a long time after.