Ogham and Dabar Books

24/04/2025

Paperback edition available from 6 May. Order from your local independent bookshop or from online booksellers.

04/03/2025

Out today in hardback; paperback 6 May
Fragments by Greg Dinner

A war photographer struggling with PTSD and a forensic archaeologist haunted by personal ghosts seek understanding in loss, find meaning in one another. In an 1890s shtetl in the Russian Pale of Settlement a young man dreams that music from his violin might warm the heart of the daughter of a tavern, only to encounter life’s tragedy, and life’s journey. In 1942 a patient at the Krakow Babinski Mental Home remembers the boy who loved her and the old man who spoke kindnesses. She alone survives by embracing memory and finding hope. And in 1943 a young man traveling the secret frozen paths with his father and brother is determined to save a young woman who has escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto, determined to hold onto her name.

To remember her story.

Tying these disparate generations is a broken violin called Memory—real and imagined fragments of experience that bring hope and salvation in word, in images, in music: from the past to the present to our joined future.

Referencing characters and some true events both from the sister novel A Requiem For Hania as well as stories lived today, Fragments continues a journey of meaning, moving from the Pale of Settlement in the 1890s to the border of Ukraine and Poland in March 2022, a story of the search for self and a fundamental exploration of human experience through that which is lost, and that which is found.

"I think we both are at the border, she says. And we both have to cross over."

01/03/2025

Out Tuesday, 4 March.
A story that begins in the Pale of Settlement, and ends at the Ukraine border with Poland in March, 2022.
Ukraine, we will always stand beside.

From the writer of 'A Requiem For Hania' comes a sister-novel, FRAGMENTS.Stories that begin the Pale of Settlement in the 1890s, and end at the Poland / Ukra...

10/02/2025

FRAGMENTS
A sister novel to 'A Requiem For Hania'
Out 4 March, 2025
Paperback and ebook 6 May 2025
(ebook only available for preorder through Kindle/Amazon)

07/01/2025

Promo 'Fragments', sister-novel to 'A Requiem For Hania', the new novel from author Greg Dinner

A deeply moving novel that takes the reader from the Russian Pale of Settlement in the 1890s, to N**i occupied Poland in 1942, to Sarajevo, and Jerusalem and Krakow in the time of covid, and finally to the Ukrainian/Polish border as refugees flee the full scale invasion in 2022.

A book to read and savour. A book of memory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy5pnHHVpAQ
Promo goes wide February.
Hardback published 4 March 2025
Paperback published 6 May 2025

18/05/2024

https://www.mountshannonarts.ie/sofia-andrukhovych

Sofia Andrukhovych is a writer, translator, and publicist. She has authored seven books of prose, including Milena's Summer (2002), Old People (2003), Wives of their Husbands (2005), Salmon (2007), Felix Austria (2014), Hen Constellation (2017) and Amadoka (2020), and has translated several works by

04/05/2024

Out in hardback 15 June 2024

For information:
https://www.gregdinner.com/whispers-of-ghosts

20/03/2024

20.3.24
Some people have asked me about Ukraine. I find it difficult to respond right now. Much to process. However I have left a few photos on the Instagram site () and if interested I have left impressions throughout the journey—not a journal, but rather vignettes, and my thoughts. You can find this on gregdinner.com in the ruminations (blog) section if interested.

18/03/2024

An open letter to all those in Ukraine--writers, filmmakers, young writers, local people, artists-- who have touched me more than words can say:

18 March 2024

An open letter to all at PEN Ukraine,
To those young writers from the Ivano-Frankivsk,
To the villagers and wonderful people of Chernihiv Oblast,
To the filmmakers in Kyiv and
To the wonderful people who took me by the hand in Lviv:

As I slowly make my way west back towards my home in Ireland, it is you, and Ukraine, that is etched in my memory, on my heart, in my thoughts.

What you have shown to me is immeasurable kindness, generosity, strength of spirit and hope. I am humbled at meeting so many of you and witnessing only decency and warmth. I truly am at a loss for words.

I take back west with me a bit of each of you inside. I take back memories that will last a lifetime. I take back friendship that will hold me tightly forever. I take back your hope for a future that will bring you peace, and may that be soon. I take back your creativity, your words, your images, your music. I take back you.

I simply want to say thank you to each and everyone of you who sheltered, and led, and laughed, and drank and helped me on my own journey, helping me to find my voice. A new friend from PEN Ukraine asked if I intended to write about Ukraine. My answer is complex. Your stories are your stories, there to be told and heard by you, not me. But in your humanity that you demonstrate, this I will take with me and will find its way into my journey.

I look forward to hearing all your voices in the future. I look forward to raising a glass with you all in the cities, towns, villages of Ukraine and I hope in Ireland as well.

I have been deeply touched by my journey in your country. It is a journey that I need to make: to bear witness, to understand, to find in the hearts of all that which gives meaning, and that which makes us human.

I wish all of you, your families and friends, your people only safety and kindness. Be well my many new friends. I carry you in my heart and prayers.

With only and always great kindness
Greg