A BOOK OF SHORT STORIES BY CATRYN POWER 2015

Posted on July 25, 2015

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THE BOOK HAS COME OUT IN THE TOP 3 FOR THE UK SUMMERTIME READ  (june to august 2016) AND WAS SECOND IN the annual final in June/July 2017 FOR BEST NEWCOMER.
 
I HAVE WRITTEN A BOOK OF SHORT STORIES WHICH INVOLVE HISTORIC MEDICINE, GHOSTS, DETECTIVES, FORENSICS AND SMUGGLERS ETC
 
It is my first book, though I have 60 publications which include academic articles primarily my work as an archaeologist and physical anthropologist in books and journals. These short stories are based on locations  primarily in Ireland. Onstream at Cloghroe, Blarney are the publishers. This book was launched by Marty Morrissey, well known sports commentator with RTE.
The profits on sales will go to the Cork Parkinson’s Support Group. 
 Each book costs 10 euro + pp = 11.50. It can be mailed directly to the person and a message can be added with the author’s signature.
 This book would make a good stocking filler for Christmas.
 
 
 
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Catryn Power Short Stories

By Catryn Power
Published by OnStream Publications
ISBN 9781897685570
Category short stories
Summer 2016

Synopsis

Catryn Power’s debut collection of short fiction is a love letter to her career in archaeology. 
We meet the ghost of a French nurse, a forensic anthropologist solving a decades-old murder, and an international gem smuggler. 
Join her characters as they escape attackers in an ancient crypt, relive the murder of an old Irish knight and uncover human remains in the trenches of World War One. 
Intrigue and forensics fuse in these ethereal tales of history and the supernatural. Power’s stories will captivate and surprise you. 

 

Author’s Biography

Catryn Power is a former Cork County Archaeologist who specialises in palaeopathology and physical anthropology. She has worked on numerous excavations throughout Ireland and abroad and taught at both undergraduate and postgraduate level in University College Cork. She has written internationally on her projects for journals and magazines. In 2012, she was shortlisted by the Fish Short Story Prize for ‘The Officer’s Son’ and in 2013 her story ‘Thomas and Marigold’ was shortlisted for the Cinnamon Press Short Story Prize.
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A love letter to a long career in archaeology

 
Niamh Aine Ryan
 
Thursday, 1st October, 2015 12:00am
 

A former Cork County archaeologist has launched her debut collection of short fiction.

Catryn Power’s first collection of short stories is a love letter to her career in archaeology and are based on locations primarily in Ireland.

Readers of the book will meet the ghost of a French nurse, a forensic anthropologist solving a decade-old murder, as well as an international gem smuggler.

Bookworms will join her characters as they escape attackers in an ancient crypt, relive the murder of an old Irish knight and uncover human remains in the trenches of World War One.

Profits from the collection of seven stories will towards the Cork Parkinsons Support Group.Marty Morrissey launched the book last night in Waterstones to 200 people. Marty and Catryn studied archaeology together at UCC.

The book is available from Waterstones and retails at €10.

 

– See more at: http://www.corkindependent.com/news/topics/articles/2015/10/01/4106730-a-love-letter-to-a-long-career-in-archaeology/#sthash.1FQudZT4.dpuf

THE BOOK WAS LAUNCHED BY MARTY MORRISSEY ON 3OTH SEPT 2015

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FRIENDS MARIAN, MARGARET, MARIAN AND JENNY WITH CATRYN

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