Books by Kevin Walsh

Sit beside author Kevin Walsh, whose novel Tribal Bonds reads like a riveting fireside tale. The loves, dreams, challenges of three generations of the O'Toole family in St Louis, Missouri, from 1922 to 1994, spin out from page to page. When the clan's lives are turned upside down by a debilitating trauma, once again, their survival instincts and fierce loyalty are called upon. What will happen to each of them as they contemplate how to make sense of a situation that pits their faith against the desire for revenge?Perfect for Irish American Catholics from the baby boomer generation, Tribal Bonds will both thrill readers and remind them they are part of a huge community. There are also millions who observed their Irish Catholic neighbors with more than a little curiosity. These neighbors' parties were always too loud and too long, but if they joined in, they knew they would have a great time-just as they will while reading Tribal Bonds.

Forgotten New York is your passport to more than 300 years of history, architecture, and memories hidden in plain sight.Houses dating to the first Dutch settlers on Staten Island; yellow brick roads in Brooklyn; clocks embedded in the sidewalk in Manhattan; bishop's crook lampposts in Queens; and a white elephant in the Bronx?this is New York and this is your guide to seeing it all. Forgotten New York covers all five boroughs with easy-to-use maps and suggested routes to hundreds of out-of-the way places, antiquated monuments, streets to nowhere, and buildings from a time lost. Forgotten New York features:Quiet PlacesTruly ForgottenHistory Happened HereWhat Is This Thing?Forgotten PeopleAnd so much more

Examines how the recent boom in the museum and heritage industry has led to its increasing commercialisation, which, Walsh argues, frequently serves only to distance us from our own heritage.