Irish Fiction

Along with one or two books by James Joyce, Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds is the most famous (and infamous) of Irish novels published in the twentieth century.

Takes you to a world where bicycles listen to conversations, inventors search for methods of 'diluting' water, and characters play truant while novelists sleep; a world where spiteful fairies wreak havoc and heroes from legend blunder into suburban sitting-rooms.

A welcome gift for every Flann O Brien fan, this collection at last assembles his short fiction including a final, incomplete novel, and other never-before-published pieces into a single volume. "

The classic satire from the renowned comic and acclaimed author of `At Swim-Two-Birds' - Flann O'Brien.

A masterpiece of black humour from the renown comic and acclaimed author of 'At Swim-Two-Birds' - Flann O'Brien.

Under the pseudonym Myles na Gopaleen, Flann O' Brien wrote a daily column in the `Irish Times' called `Cruiskeen Lawn' for over twenty years which hilariously satirised the absurdities and solemnities of Dublin life.

From the author of the classic novel `At-Swim-Two-Birds' comes this ingenious tale which follows the mad and absurd ambitions of a scientist determined to destroy the world.

The undergraduate narrator lives with his uncle in Dublin, drinks too much with his friends and invents stories peopled with hilarious and unlikely characters, one of whom, creates a means by which women can give birth to full-grown people.

*A poignant and beautiful depiction of a young girl's awakening in a foreign country *A controversial novel by one of Ireland's greatest writers

*Exquisite, luminous prose from one of the twentieth century's greatest novelists

Pray for the Wanderer, usually regarded by critics as Kate O'Brien's response to the banning of Mary Lavelle in Ireland, is much more than a discourse on culture and censorship. It explores the emotional pain of an Irish writer genuinely torn between the artistic freedom of abroad and the beguiling beauty and security of home.

The story of an independent and spirited woman in sixteenth century Spain