International Bestseller A People Book of the Week A Barnes & Noble Discover Pick A Barnes & Noble Best Biography of the Year An iBooks Best Book of the Month An Amazon Best Memoir of the Month “A fiercely eloquent testament to making the most out of every moment we're given.” —People, Book of the Week “Beautifully written. Utterly life-affirming.” —Alan Rickman “A beautiful love story - in its essence that's what this is. Survival stories are not about surviving, they're inherently about what makes a survivor push through. A desire to remain in the light of all creation, even as a darkening is taking place. A darkening which happens to us all.” —Colin Farrell “[A] gripping, affecting, sometimes funny read by a natural-born storyteller with something to say about the weight and the value of a life...If you need a story of courage, of heart, of coming back for more, of love and struggle and the power of both, It's Not Yet Dark could be the elusive thing you're after.” —Joseph O'Connor "Less a memoir of dying than a memoir of refusing to die...Vibrant." —Minneapolis Star-Tribune "In brief, often luminous vignettes, Fitzmaurice tells pieces of his story...Brave and honest, his memoir provides a fierce, sparkling constellation of small lights that gleam against the gathering dark." —Shelf Awareness "Powerful and moving...The heart of this inspirational book is Fitzmaurice's perseverance ('They gave me my life and I wouldn’t give it up') and his unflagging belief 'in the power to take what life throws at you and slowly to come back, to take all you have and not be crushed by sadness and loss.'" —Publishers Weekly "A fine and heartfelt memoir from an author hopeful in his determination to endure against the odds: 'What remains is desire.'" —Kirkus "Darkly funny and emotional, Fitzmaurice’s story is as inspirational as memoirs get – he even wrote the entire book with an eye-gaze computer. This is a true story about family, health, and the true meaning of life that you won’t want to miss." —BookTrib "A fierce, tender, and compelling examination of what it means to live." —The Brooklyn Bugle "Daringly, brutally poignant, It’s Not Yet Dark is the closest thing to pure love that I have read since The Shack and just as memorable...Like an Irish mist, It’s Not Yet Dark unveils all pretense of living with an illness that kills daily, that can terminate life at any moment, leaving the brilliance and elegance of a writer at his best, peeling his life like an onion, living with presence and love at every opportunity. Thrillingly, achingly authentic prose that reveals an inner life of one human being with the courage to live fully every single moment of his life. Compromised as it is, Simon Fitzmaurice’s life is a complete and miraculous act of loving life." —The Review Broads Select Irish Praise for It’s Not Yet Dark #1 Bestseller “Part memoir, part stark document of the way [Simon] and his family have dealt with motor neuron disease, and part fierce celebration of being —
2017 was a monumental year for the world, and just as great a one for books that look back on how we got to here. These 25 books encompass a wide range of subjects, writing styles, and personalities, but they all have one thing in common—by shedding light on the past (even if only the […]