Charlie Chaplin's WishboneThese twelve masterful short stories are by one of Irelands leading practitioners of the art (previous collections include Adventures in a Bathyscope, 1998, and Lipstick on the Host, 1992). Aidan Mathews is a writer worthy of Joyce, whose condensed language conveys learning, sophistication, true feeling and poignancy. The range of subject matter is conveyed in the story titles: Charlie Chaplins Wishbone, Access, Barber Surgeons, Waking a Jew, Cuba,

artlessly fusing the worlds of flesh and spirit’

this prequel to the bestselling Watching The DoorÊby Kevin Myers

Devlin depicts Edith in the round

a melting pot for Viking and Gaelic

Sensbach presents the historical background of each piece and provides biographies of the composers

In Showbusiness with Blood

botanical sales catalogues and pamphlets on the bloody 1641 Rebellion in Ireland

actor and singer

present and back through the geological ages

the American educator and reformer Asenath Nicholson set out from New York on a fifteen-month visit to Ireland

But there is something in such a relationship that can stretch the mind and stimulate the talents

describes ordinary lives and emotions in an extraordinary way