An astronomer challenges an emperor. A hunter pursues the last dinosaur through a remote rainforest. A young Kerryman emigrates to the Moon to seek his fortune. The fifteen darkly funny stories in this book illuminate a side of Irish literary history that is often overlooked.
'The Red Word' offers a lyrical yet eyes-wide-open account of the epic clash between fraternities' time-honored `right to party' and young women's demands for sexual safety and respect. With strains of 'The Marriage Plot' and reminiscent of the work of Zadie Smith and Tom Wolfe
Set around a small family farm on the edge of a bog Minor Monuments is a story unfolding from the landscape of the Irish midlands. Taking in the physical and philosophical power of sound and music, and the effects of Alzheimer's disease on a family, Ian Maleney questions the nature of home, memory and belonging.
A thought-provoking and quietly devastating meditation on family and loss, and with echoes of Tim Robinson and Tara Westover, Minor Monuments is a beautiful and unique literary experience.
How do you rebuild the world? How do you put it back together? Nealon, fresh out of prison, returns to his family home in Ireland for the first time in years, only to be greeted by a completely empty house. No heat or light, no furniture, no sign of his wife or child anywhere. It seems the world has forgotten that he even existed.
McCormack's ambitious and other-worldly novel is both simple and devilishly complex. Once a year, on All Souls' Day, it is said in Ireland that the dead may return. Solar Bones is the story of one such visit home.
Borrowed from Rebecca Solnit's book, "A Field Guide to Getting Lost", "A Kind of Compass" is a gorgeous, sprawling meditation on all the ways in which we find ourselves lost.