The Poor Mouth by Flann O'Brien

The Poor Mouth by Flann O'BrienThe classic satire from the renowned comic and acclaimed author of At Swim Two Birds Flann O'Brien. Flann O'Brien's gloriously wicked satire of the traditional Irish peasant novel, The Poor Mouth tells the shamelessly ironic story of Bonaparte O'Coonassa, born in the West of Ireland 'on a terrible winter's night'. A hymn to the world of potatoes, rain and 'excellent poverty', this cruelly funny assault on the fashionable Gaelic Revival of the day

whose mysterious gifts make him the family's most precious - and dangerous - asset

' - Azeem Azhar

renegades and visionaries who saw that the biggest credit bubble of all time was about to burst

Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020 A Spectator Book of the Year 'A literary rendering of the Top Boy generation

furnishing and practical applications for sewing

The very first HAT book in board book form

Michka has been carrying an old debt she does not know how to repay - and as her words slide out of her grasp

this picture book from the UK's number one picture book author and illustrator is literally out of this world

Larger-than-life characters

but who they killed

essentially expresses the poet's own long-considered belief that 'death naturally and rightly completes the cycle we recognise and accept as life'

Proulx's poetic description of these places