WALKING WITH GHOSTS: More News!

Publisher’s Weekly has some cool news for readers in the US: Actor and producer Gabriel Byrne sold a memoir titled Walking with Ghosts to Grove Atlantic. Elisabeth Schmitz and Katie Raissian took U.S. and Canadian rights from Anna Stein at ICM Partners. Ghosts, which is slated for January 2021, is, […]

WALKING WITH GHOSTS: An Update

Pan Macmillan, publisher, has updated its entry for Gabriel’s new book. So: Publication date: November 12, 2020Published by Picador, the literary imprint of Pan MacmillanISBN # 9781529027433224 pages (oh! this is so great!) Purchase information is available at the link above, but most of it is blank at this time. […]

WALKING WITH GHOSTS will be here soon!

There is new news, including the pre-order information at Amazon, and old news, including the “book-cover-Stella-uses-until-the-real-cover-is-published.” Also, with his usual serendipitous comedic timing, Steve Martin has a book coming out in November, too. wink The pre-publication information offers contradictions: the book is being published in October. Nope, in November. We […]

A Blurb about Gabriel Byrne’s New Book!

Blurb (noun): a brief advertisement or announcement, especially a laudatory one. And here’s a great one for Gabriel’s new book, Walking With Ghosts, from Barry Egan, whose article for the Sunday Independent sits behind a pay wall, but I got lucky: … And, he tells me, he has a book […]

A New Book by Gabriel Byrne!

Finally and at last! It’s done! And it will be coming our way this year. The Guardian broke the news first, in their indispensable overview of forthcoming books: 2020 in Books: A Literary Calendar. Walking With Ghosts by Gabriel Byrne (Picador) The Irish actor writes a memoir of his childhood […]

“What Fresh Lunacy Is This?” Book Review by Gabriel Byrne

Oliver Reed was a thrilling and accomplished actor. He starred in a group of films I will always remember: Oliver!,  Women In Love, The Devils, The Hunting Party, and The Three Musketeers. In Women in Love, he proved the perfect counter-balance to Alan Bates. Reed’s work in The Devils (which I […]