The Two-State Delusion

Praise for Shades of Difference: Mac Maharaj & the Struggle for South Africa

"I am proud of O'Malley [for] the extraordinary book he has written for us. He, like us in the struggle, has persevered, and he, like us, has triumphed."
--Nelson Mandela, from the Foreword

"A striking success."
--Jeremy Harding, The New York Times Book Review

"An original and important work... An entry for the reader into a wider understanding of the elements of the Struggle, the contradictions that had to be overcome to bring us freedom."
--Nadine Gordimer, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

"[O'Malley] is knowledgeable and sure-footed as he recounts this story... making a complex narrative on the whole quite clear." --San Francisco Chronicle

"Meticulous and unflinchingly honest."
--The New York Sun

"Brilliantly written."
--Library Journal (starred review)

"A groundbreaking biography of a central figure in the fight to end South African apartheid."
--Publishers Weekly

"[Shades of Difference] is one of those seminal works that every South African should read. If you have read Mandela's Long Road to Freedom and other annals of our struggle, it is imperative to add this one to your collection because it provides an important and vital thread to the understanding of South Africa, then, now and into the future."
--Musa Zondi, The Sowetan

"An extraordinarily well-researched work... O'Malley has a deep understanding... and is perhaps one of the few outsiders who could readily understand the South African struggle."
--The Independent (South Africa)

"[Shades of Difference] is more than the story of one of the most important players in the liberation drama it is required reading for those of us who want to understand where we came from, how we got here and why some things happen as they do."
--Africa News

"If you are interested in where this country has come from and where it may be headed, then this book is required reading."
--The Star (South Africa)

Praise for Biting at the Grave: The Irish Hunger Strikes and the Politics of Despair

"Anyone who wants to understand the essence of the confrontation will have cause to be devoutly grateful for this book."
--The New York Times Book Review

"O'Malley's story of two English-speaking communities who squandered the benefits of constitutional government is frightening, for his theme--the destructive effects of feelings of beleaguerment, entrapment, and victimization--is echoed in every morning's newspaper."
--The New Yorker

"A book equal to the pity and terror of its subject, Padraig O'Malley simplifies nothing, extenuates nothing, and scrutinizes everything. This is not only a heart-felt narrative, but a sustained exercise of moral and political intelligence." --Seamus Heaney

"A brilliant, chilling, and heartbreaking book." --Boston Globe

"O'Malley shrewdly assesses the psychological, cultural, religious and political forces that kept the hunger strikes going against all odds, and against all reason." --Washington Post

"A fierce and uncompromising examination of the history, mythology, mindset and religion that make up modern Ireland, north and south alike." --Philadelphia Inquirer