We are delighted to announce our new imprint – Beehive.
As the general-interest imprint of Veritas Publications, Beehive will publish high-quality non-fiction and children’s books, printed in Ireland.
With six Beehive titles due for release in spring and six in autumn, we look forward to an exciting year ahead.
LATEST RELEASES
Pre-order the most anticipated books at Beehive.ie. Check out the latest announcements from Irish and global authors.
Skipping Stones
Tatyana Feeney
About the book
Follow a young girl and her father on an adventure through the woods to the cool water’s edge. There’s lots to spot and discuss, from dragonflies and exotic birds overhead to turtles and colourful fish in the water.
About the authors
Tatyana Feeney is an award-winning children’s book author-illustrator. Her books include Little Owl’s Orange Scarf, Small Bunny’s Blue Blanket (Oxford University Press), Socks for Mr Wolf, Eva and the Perfect Rain and Mr Wolf Goes to the Ball (The O’Brien Press).
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The Moth & the Moon
Margaret Anne Suggs
About the book
Rosie the moth is infatuated with the moon. When the moon disappears Rosie and her friend Gary set out on an adventure to find her.
‘Gorgeously illustrated, with Suggs’s trademark warmth and tenderness, The Moth and the Moon is a lyrical celebration of friendship and connection that will bring light into the hearts of every reader.’ (Dr Becky Long, author of Irish Children’s Literature and the Poetics of Memory)
About the author
Margaret Anne Suggs serves as a director for both Illustrators Ireland and IBBY Ireland. She lectures part-time at Ballyfermot CFE. She is the illustrator for the ‘Pigín of Howth’ series with Kathleen Watkins (Gill Books) and Holy Shocking Saints with Síne Quinn (Veritas).
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CLIMATE GENERATION
Awakening to Our Children's Future
Lorna Gold
About the book
Climate change is the greatest challenge of our generation - we hear it all the time. It has almost become a refrain. But do we really believe it? What if we were to let those words settle a little, penetrate minds and hearts deeply, and accept their troubling, terrifying truth? What if we were to understand that climate change isn’t something far away out there in space and time, but something that affects us here and now?
In
Climate Generation: Awakening to Our Children’s Future, Lorna Gold shares her personal journey in understanding what those two words ‘climate change’ mean for her as a mother seeking to protect her children and, by extension, the world of which we are all a part.
Climate change is a real danger that risks destroying our children’s future. This book tells the story of how one mother was awakened to this reality and how it changed her life. From fearing she could do nothing, she found herself catapulted into a big adventure. She discovered people from all walks of life who care about their children’s futures and who are doing amazing things to make these voices heard.
About the author
Lorna Gold is Director of Movement Building in FaithInvest. Prior to working in FaithInvest, she was Head of Policy and Advocacy in Trócaire. She has previously worked in the Department of Politics at the University of York, where she was the recipient of the Joseph Rowntree Centennial Fellowship and an ESRC postdoctoral fellowship. She has a PhD from the Department of Geography at the University of Glasgow. She writes widely on a range of development issues, including the Millennium Development Goals and the relationship between Catholic social teaching and ethical business models. She has a particular interest in the changing shape of Ireland’s development policy.
Nets of Wonder
Barry Britton, Olive and Eamon Travers
About the book
This book of days is divided into the four seasons, reflecting the seasonal ebb and flow of the twelve essays. Each extract is complemented by an illustration inspired by the written content. The book will be accompanied by a podcast of the spoken word with original musical score by Eamon Travers, which will also be themed to reflect the content. The themes touched on include love, loss, birth, coming of age and spiritual journeys.
About the authors
Olive Travers is a regular contributor to RTÉ Radio 1’s Sunday Miscellany. A clinical psychologist, she has extensive national television and radio experience, including appearances on the Late Late Show and as a panelist on live afternoon shows.
Eamon Travers is a composer, music educator and multi instrumentalist specialising in traditional Irish, jazz and folk music.
Originally an architect, Barry Britton is now an established artist and illustrator with a large following in the art, music and surfing worlds.
Wonder Vet
Jennifer Farley
About the book
A beautifully illustrated children’s book featuring the story of trailblazer Aleen Cust. She was born and raised in Ireland, and later became the first female veterinary student, and eventually first female veterinary surgeon, in the UK and Ireland. Although she was one of the best students in her class in Edinburgh in 1900, she was not allowed to sit her final veterinary diploma exams because she was female. However, she persisted and became a successful vet, facing many challenges along the way. She returned to Ireland and became a trusted and admired veterinary surgeon in the west. She later drove herself to France during World War I and volunteered to help the war horses.
Aleen Cust’s story was recently featured on RTÉ’s Nationwide and in Herstory at EPIC: The Irish Emigration Museum. A group of vets is currently working on creating an entire museum dedicated to her in the west of Ireland.
About the author
Jennifer Farley
is an author and illustrator whose artwork is bright, colourful and humorous. She has illustrated several books for other authors, and has written and illustrated three books, including Island of Adventures and Scout’s Best Day Ever. In 2019 she illustrated Shooting for the Stars by Dr Norah Patten, which won an An Post Irish Book Award. She is based in Westmeath.
Tales From a Wicklow Tea Room
Michael Fewer
About the book
Tales from a Wicklow Tea Room is the story of a tiny cottage in Glencree in the Wicklow Mountains and the tea room run there by the McGuirk family, which gained a remarkable reputation between the 1880s and the 1960s. Over this most formative period in Irish history, the cottage became a meeting place for poets, artists, writers, scientists, politicians, lawyers, and indeed, representatives of every aspect of Irish society, including some of early-twentieth-century Ireland’s most influential people, where they could relax over a cup of tea. Arthur Griffith, Robert Lloyd Praeger, John Millington Synge, Ellen Duncan, Denis Devlin, Mervyn Wall, Constantia Maxwell, Oliver St John Gogarty, Hugh Lane, William Beckett and Ella Webb are among the host of visitors. Features: photos, drawings and signatures.
About the author
Michael Fewer has written twenty-five books since 1988, on history, travel, architecture, and the natural world and countryside. He was a consultant contributor to the Encyclopaedia of Ireland and has written and presented packages on RTÉ television and RTÉ Radio’s Sunday Miscellany.
"How to be Our Best Self" Serie
Stuart Breen and Tom Gunning
How to Be Our Best Self
in Times of Crisis
About the book
How to Be Our Best Self in Times of Crisis helps the reader to understand the body’s reaction to crisis and how the physiological response impacts our ways of thinking, often for long periods of time. By recognising the severe impact a crisis can have on our physical bodies, we learn to appreciate the importance of developing the skills to slow down and rest to allow for necessary repair and regeneration. This book guides us through this process of repair and regeneration in a holistic way, beginning with acceptance.
How to Be Our Best Self
in Times of Chronic Stress
About the book
Stress can be caused by a single event but chronic stress is caused by a lot of small events building over time. In this important book, the reader is invited to recognise the signs of chronic stress and to take the vital small steps to address its symptoms.
The second book in the How to Be Our Best Self series, it can be dipped into a page or chapter at a time. It can be kept on a car seat or on a desk as a constant reminder that a life of striving and trying to keep up can be balanced with a life of thriving and moments of reprieve.
How to Be Our Best Self
with Self-Care: A twenty-four hour manual
About the book
This much-needed manual provides practical ways to incorporate self-care into your daily routine. In this important book, the reader is encouraged to discover the importance of self-care.
The third book in successful series by Breen and Gunning, it can be dipped into a page or chapter at a time. It can be kept on a car seat or on a desk as a constant reminder of the importance of self-care. Even in the midst of a very stressful life you can still find time to prioritise and practice self-care.
How to Be Our Best Self
with Self-Care: Stepping Forward
About the book
Following on from the success of the first three books in the How to Be Our Best Self series comes this timely guide to a journey towards improving mental health. This much-needed book provides practical ways to take positive steps to look after your mental health that can be incorporated into your daily routine. Even in the midst of a very stressful life you can still be your best self.
Choose Well
The ABC Coping Sentence
Dr Claire Hayes
About the book
Choose Well: The ABC Coping Sentence offers a simple and effective tool for improving the quality of our relationships, both with ourselves and with other people. It focuses on the third step of ‘The Coping Triangle’, a unique process developed by Dr Claire Hayes, using the key principles of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT).
Written in a warm, inviting and accessible style, Choose Well: The ABC Coping Sentence
provides practical advice and guidance on applying these coping techniques and skills to everyday situations. Life can be filled with challenges but Dr Hayes demonstrates how we can choose to respond to particular situations and proactively manage our reactions, while being kind to ourselves and others. Ideal for anyone wishing to develop or improve their coping skills, this book gives readers a new way to challenge their beliefs, acknowledge their feelings and choose how to respond to them.
About the author
Dr Claire Hayes is a consultant clinical psychologist and bestselling author of Finding Hope in the Age of Anxiety (2017), How to Cope: The Welcoming Approach to Life’s Challenges (2015) and Stress Relief for Teachers (2006).
Nature’s Way
A Guide to Green Therapy
Tom Gunning
About the book
In recent years, scientific research has uncovered exciting new evidence to support what we have long known: being in nature is good for us. There is nothing novel in claiming that a walk in the woods lifts the spirits, clears the head and renews the soul but now doctors in many countries are writing green prescriptions and sending their patients out into the woods for some forest bathing, or shinrin-yoku.
Nature’s Way: A Guide to Green Therapy draws upon the latest research to prescribe some practical tips on how to get the best out of the green pharmacies on our doorsteps. From tuning into the fractal patterns in sunflowers to detecting the unique smell of rocks and soil after rainfall, this book outlines how nature renews, repairs and restores depleted human physiological systems. It can improve a range of mental health issues and support human creativity, cognition and problem-solving.
Nature acts not only as a therapist, but also as a teacher, providing seasonal blueprints and growth patterns for optimal human living in a technology-saturated Western culture. In the shadow of a global pandemic, startling evidence reveals that time spent in forests and working with soil boosts our immune systems. This exciting new book comes at an important time in modern culture and gently encourages green time, a known healer, over screen time, a known stressor.
About the editor
Tom Gunning is a writer and teacher. He is the lead writer of the Soul Seekers junior cycle programme and the author of How to Be Our Best Self in Times of Crisis (2020) and How to Be Our Best Self in Times of Chronic Stress (2022), published by Beehive Books. He is the cofounder of the Parable Garden Education Project in Wexford.
Wild Musings
A Celebration of the Natural World
Éanna Ní Lamhna
About the book
This book is a collection of articles reproduced from Intercom magazine on the importance of our natural world. With a foreword by Michael Fewer and impressive endorsements (not in yet) and an introduction by Éanna linking the articles. The book will have a selection of Éanna’s full-colour nature photos, including the image on the front cover.
About the author:
Éanna Ní Lamhna is a biologist, environmentalist, broadcaster and Irish Times contributor. Author of many books, including: Wild Dublin, Our Wild World, Wild and Wonderful and Straight Talking Wild. She served as president of the Tree Council of Ireland and as president of Taisc (the national environmental charity). A member of the panel of experts on RTÉ’s ‘Mooney Goes Wild’ – her voice is one of the most instantly recognisable voices on Irish radio.
The Song of Brigid's Cloak
Dr Catherine Ann Cullen
Illustrated by Katya Swan
About the book
‘There was a wise woman, we’re all agreed,
some call her Brigid, some call her Bríd.
She grew up kind and she liked a joke
and she always wore a wee small cloak.’
A miserly king is no match for a smart young woman in this lively retelling of the beloved Irish legend of Brigid and her miraculous cloak. Award-winning poet and songwriter Catherine Ann Cullen’s words are brought to life in glowing illustrations by Katya Swan. Read the story and learn to sing The Song of Brigid’s Cloak!
About the author and illustrator
Catherine Ann Cullen was the inaugural Poetry Ireland poet in residence. She is author of three poetry collections and three children’s books in verse, including All Better: Poems on Illness and Recovery (Little Island, 2019), which was reimagined from Latvian. Her first book, The Magical, Mystical, Marvelous Coat (Little Brown, 2001) won a Gold Award for Poetry and Folklore from the American Parenting Products Association.
Katya Swan is an illustrator living in Ireland. She has illustrated a number of picture books, including, Bea’s Rumble Jungle, Bea’s Ocean Commotion, Frankie Pants and Mr Fox, and Monster Mom.
Glorious Goddesses of Ancient Ireland
Dr Karen Ward
Illustrated by Paula McGloin
About the book
A beautifully illustrated children’s book celebrating nine Irish goddesses. The goddesses depict a diverse range of ages, shapes and sizes, each with incredible stories: Áine, Aisling, Boann, Brigid, Danu, Ériu, Gráinne, the Cailleach and the Morrigan. Written in an accessible style with fascinating facts and amusing tales, this book will appeal to a wide range of readers. It can be pitched in the industry as a gift book/tourist book and as an educational resource. Paula McGloin’s captivating illustrations highlight the goddesses’ diversity as well as emphasising their ingenuity, power and magnificence.
About the author and illustrator
Karen Ward PhD, lives in Dublin city with her husband and loves to feed the birds in their little garden. As a psychotherapist, she helps people with their mental health and teaches others to do the same. Karen was the holistic presenter on RTÉ television’s Health Squad for many years as well as BBC’s Last Resort. Glorious Goddesses is her first children’s book. Her other titles include Change a Little to Change a Lot (Merlin, 2009) and The Secrets of Ageless Ageing (Beehive Books, 2022). She thinks Irish goddesses are amazing.
Paula McGloin is an Irish illustrator known for her vibrant illustrations inspired by wildlife, folklore and storytelling. She has won awards for her illustrated books and creative work for animation. She has illustrated four books including Adventures in Philosophy by Brendan O’Donohue and All Through the Night edited by Marie Heaney. She lives in West Cork with her husband Michael and a cat called Gatchino.
Invisible Threads
Marguerite MacCurtin
About the book
‘Later I realised that this was the most powerful moment of the journey for me. Here I was, a stranger who had wandered in from the Tibetan plateau in the need of shelter and comfort, and I was offered both in abundance. We had no word in common but without the benefit of language it is the non-verbals that click into place: body language, gesture, mime, eye contact, facial expressions, basic intuition. The condition of being human is universal I discovered and the underlying impulse to reach out and connect transcends the barriers of race, language and geographical location.’
A beautifully written collection of essays on incredible journeys across the seven continents by writer and broadcaster Marguerite Mac Curtin.
About the author
Marguerite MacCurtin is a broadcaster, writer and passionate traveller. She has travelled to some of the world’s most remote and dangerous places including the sacred mountain of Mount Kailash in western Tibet. She has written for Sunday Miscellany on RTÉ Radio One, the Quiet Quarter on Lyric FM and Another Time Another Space, produced by Tim Lehane, RTÉ. Her radio piece entitled ‘An Oracle in Ladakh’ was chosen by Marie Heaney for inclusion in Sunday Miscellany: A Selection from 1995–2000 (Town House, 2000) and A Treasury of Sunday Miscellany (New Island, 2009).
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The Secrets of Ageless Ageing
Dr. Karen Ward
About the book
In The Secrets of Ageless Ageing, Karen Ward takes her reader by the hand on a voyage of self-discovery and a celebration of middle age and beyond. Rather than be daunted by this experience, she gives sound, practical advice and a common-sense and holistic approach to the inevitability that is growing older. Karen’s wise and witty style is flanked by interviews with those older and wiser, who share their regrets and joys, and give sage advice.
The Secrets of Ageless Ageing is full of tips on how best to manage our physicality, time, mental health and relationships as we age, how to ease our adjustment to retirement and a slower pace of life, and, most importantly, how to embrace with enthusiasm the many opportunities that the latter stages of our lives offer.
About the editor
Dr Karen Ward,
holistic therapist on RTÉ’s Health Squad and BBC’s Last Resort, is a practising counselling psychotherapist. Her books include The Health Squad Guide to Health (Onstream, 2007), Change a Little to Change a Lot (Merlin, 2009), and her children’s book, illustrated by Paula McGloin, Glorious Goddesses (Beehive, 2022).
Darkness into Light
A Nation’s Response
Joan Freeman
About the book
Darkness into Light: A Nation’s Response tells the story of the birth of a national and international event that brings hundreds of thousands of men, women and children together for a walk. This is no ordinary walk. Each year, on a Saturday in May, it takes place at the break of dawn to raise funds for Pieta House. It is also an annual opportunity to remember, grieve and celebrate loved ones who have died by suicide.
About the author
Joan Freeman (the founder of Pieta House and Darkness into Light) describes how this extraordinary event began and includes testimonies from people who brought the walk to different parts of Ireland and, indeed, different parts of the world. Joan was a Taoiseach’s nomination for the Seanad and was a senator from 2016 to 2020. In 2018 she was a candidate in the presidential election.
A Breath of Fresh Éire
Olga Balaeva
About the book
A Breath of Fresh Éire is a collection of essays, accompanied by stunning photographs, that celebrates the beauty of the Irish landscape and showcases both famous landmarks and lesser-known locations. A Breath of Fresh Éire focuses on experiencing nature in a mindful way, reflecting on the heritage of a place and tuning into emotions that interaction with natural beauty evokes. Whether you have always lived here, made Ireland your new home or are just visiting, A Breath of Fresh Éire invites you to come a step closer to the seemingly forbidding beauty of wild Ireland. Observe, marvel, listen – and let nature fill your heart with inspiration, joy and peace.
About the author
Olga Balaeva is a linguist, a writer and a Gaeilgeoir living in Dublin. Born in Moscow, Olga completed her BA at Moscow State University and her MSt at Oxford University. Olga’s first book, Ireland A Gaeilge: A User-Friendly Guide to the Irish Language, was published in 2017. She primarily writes creative non-fiction with a particular focus on Irish-interest topics. Olga has an online publication in Irish on Tuairisc.ie as well as a flash fiction publication in the Clover & White online literary magazine. Apart from writing and languages, Olga’s other passion is hiking around Ireland and finding inspiration and joy in close engagement with nature.
Mindcrafting
How to Mentor Your Ageing Mind
Dr Declan Lyons
About the book
Drivers for depression and poor mental health in older people abound in our society, whether they be reduced expectations for later years or suggestions that older people should simply disappear and withdraw from all activities. While society may superficially value successful ageing, there is a lack of help when it comes to its achievement. It is a lose-lose situation for the individual and for society at large. Many older people lower their personal expectations of life in accordance with society’s expectations and it is little wonder that many experience depression and other forms of mental illness.
Doctor Declan Lyons has trained in the Human Givens set of organising ideas around the genesis of emotional and psychological distress. Mindcrafting: How to Mentor Your Ageing Mind applies the principles to older people and publicises their benefi t and utility to a wide audience.
About the author
Dr Declan Lyons is a consultant psychiatrist at St Patrick’s Mental Health Services and a clinical associate professor in psychiatry at Trinity College Dublin. His previous publications include The Evergreen Guide: Helping People to Survive and Thrive in Later Years (2014) and The Time of Your Later Life: Reflections on Ageing with Attitude (2018).
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Due to the large volume of submissions, we are not accepting unsolicited submissions at this time.
Beehive Books Team