A Guest At The Feast by Colm Tóibín

A Guest At The Feast by Colm TóibínA Guest at the Feast uncovers the places where politics and poetics meet, where life and fiction overlap, where one can be inside writing and also outside of it. From the melancholy and amusement within the work of the writer John McGahern to an extraordinary essay on his own cancer diagnosis, Tibn delineates the bleakness and strangeness of life and also its richness and its complexity. As he reveals the shades of light and dark in a Venice without

strength and race

Tales from the Inner City is a truly masterly work

Little animal lovers will also enjoy Rod Campbell's Look After Us

showing us how the astonishing senses

With his usual mix of erudition and where-the-f*ck-did-that-come-from humor

Expert gardeners explain the underlying principles in plain English

And granny's stories

A fox saw the mouse and the mouse looked good

but even when he stays safely at home he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him

and Richard Bingha

our civilization'The New York Times Book Review

offering ingenious solutions to some of our most vexing problems