Somerville Press is a book publisher based near Bantry , West Cork , Ireland. Our publishing programme incorporates both fiction and non-fiction, mainly of Irish interest. We also distribute various titles for other publishers.
Compiled by Andrew Russell
I did quite enjoy the days when one went for a beer at one’s local in Paris and woke up in Corsica. PETER O'TOOLE
If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am. CYRIL CUSACK
When involved with filming, the thought comes finally into focus: I wonder what the grown-ups are doing. DERMOT MORGAN
When I’m lying drunk at an airport the press call me Irish…but when I win an Oscar, I’m classified as British. BRENDA FRICKER
Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me. MICHAEL GAMBON
I often sit back and think, I wish I’d done that, and find out later that I already have. RICHARD HARRIS
Don’t they say acting is the shy man’s revenge? JOHN KAVANAGH
Life is a long rehearsal for a play that is never produced. MICHAEL MAC LIAMMOIR
I don’t bother with drugs myself because I’m at that age now; I don’t need to. If I want a rush, I just get out of a chair when I don’t expect it. DYLAN MORAN
We are based in Dromore, Bantry, Co. Cork, Ireland. We can be contacted by telephone on 00353 (0) 28 32873 or 00353 (0) 87 233 1970, and by email at somervillepress@gmail.com
Our books are distributed in the UK by Central Books, 50 Freshwater Rd, London RM8 1RX, and in the US by Casemate, 1950 Lawrence Road, Haverton PA 19083.
Somerville Press also incorporates RUSSELL BOOK REPRESENTATION, a publishers' sales agency covering the whole of Ireland. The publishers we represent include Hurst Publishers (www.hurstpublishers.com), W.W. Norton & Company Ltd. (www.wwnorton co.uk) and Reaktion Books Ltd. (www.reaktionbooks.co.uk).