Hanging with the Elephant(Reprint) A Story of Love, Loss and Meditation (Paperback) by MichaelHarding Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2015 by Hachette Books Ireland ISBN-13: 978-1-4447-8314-8, ISBN: 1-4447-8314-9
"'In public or on stage, it's different. I'm fine. I have no bother talking to three hundred people, and sharing my feelings. But when I'm in a room on a one-to-one basis, I get lost. I can never find the right word. Except for that phrase - hold me.'Michael Harding's wife has departed for a six-week trip, and he has been left alone in their home in Leitrim. Faced with the realities of caring for himself for the first time since his illn ..."
Staring at Lakes(Reprint) A Memoir of Love, Melancholy and Magical Thinking by Michael P. Harding Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2014 by Hachette Ireland ISBN-13: 978-1-4447-4350-0, ISBN: 1-4447-4350-3
"Winner of the Irish Book Awards' National Book Tokens' Non-Fiction Book of the Year and The John Murray Show Listeners' Choice Award, Staring at Lakes is about the essence of love and marriage, about growing old, and sitting in cars and staring at lakesThroughout his life, Michael Harding has lived with a sense of emptiness—through faith, marriage, fatherhood and his career as a writer, a pervading sense of darkness and unease remained. ..."