Conor Kostick

CONOR KOSTICK was a designer for the world's first live fantasy role-playing game, based in Peckforton Castle, Cheshire. He now resides in Dublin where he teaches medieval history at Trinity College Dublin. He is the author of several historical, political and cultural works. Conor was also a reviewer for the Journal of Music in Ireland and was twice chairperson of the Irish Writers' Union.

The Book of Curses

The Book of Curses is full of dark, wicked, magic. Do not open it!

Alex makes wishes with his magic book – but they keep going horribly wrong...

Category: Fiction 7+
Publisher: O'Brien Press
 
Paperback    £5.99
The Easter Rising

Defying all the odds 1600 men, women and children went out on 24 April, Easter Monday, 1916 to fight for an independent Ireland. Vividly illustrated, this book takes you through the battle-torn streets of Dublin.

Category: Current Affairs and Politics, History
Publisher: O'Brien Press
 
Paperback    £8.99
Edda

Completing the internationally successful trilogy of Epic and Saga, Edda is a ‘virtual’ world ruled by the electronic intelligence of Lord Scanthax. Penelope is a teenager ensnared in Edda. Can she uncover the truth about her human past and gain her freedom?

Category: Fiction 10+
Publisher: O'Brien Press
 
Paperback    £7.99
Epic

#WELCOME TO EPIC: PRESS START TO PLAY#. On New Earth, Epic is not just a computer game, it's a matter of life and death. If you lose, you lose everything; if you win, the world is yours for the taking.

Category: Fiction 13+
Publisher: O'Brien Press
 
Paperback    £6.99
Irish Writers Against War

An impressive range of literary voices from Ireland united by their opposition to the proposed war in Iraq.

Category: Essays, Criticism and Philosophy
Publisher: O'Brien Press
 
Paperback    £7.99
Move

What if you could live in a universe where you were always the winner?

Pushed to his limits by a horrific accident, Liam discovers he has an amazing ability: he can ‘move’ to parallel universes where things always turn out just the way he wants.

Category: Fiction 13+
Publisher: O'Brien Press
 
Paperback    £7.99
Saga

Ghost, a fifteen-year-old air-boarding punk lives in a vast dark futuristic metropolis. But a mysterious stranger appears to break her out of jail, then challenges the whole basis of reality.

Category: Fiction 13+
Publisher: O'Brien Press
 
Paperback    £6.99