Midfield DynamoFrom award winning author Adrian Duncan comes his first collection of astonishing short stories. These modern stories have been written over the past decade, half having been previously published in The Moth, The Stinging Fly, Dublin Review and elsewhere, half completely new. Patterning and happenstance make up the rich quotidian lives of the characters portrayed in these strange, energetic tales. The loose figures of young artists, footballers and

Small cheap books featuring knights and heroes

which enjoyed a thirty-year lifespan

His knowledge of the fine print of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is truly awesome … He has one of the most judicious minds in the business

is author of the best-selling The Road to the Somme: Men of the Ulster Division Tell Their Story (Belfast 1987)

gripping rods of steel

In modern-day Dublin

evacuated with her mother to Africa during the war

He was reinstated in 2004

Cliona Loughnane

his willingness and courage to act as a cultural shaman for Western humanity

His full-spirited translation has given the English-reading world access to this charming and relentlessly entertaining bohemian poet

Daisy Fingall writes from an intimate knowledge of the leading figures of her day and their milieu