Publication Date: 16/11/2023 ISBN: 9781529371628 Category:

Topographia Hibernica

Blindboy Boatclub

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Publication Date: 16/11/2023 ISBN: 9781529371628 Category:
Hardback

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‘One of the best books I have ever read … I can’t recommend him or it enough.’ JOHNNY MARR

‘Powered by immense, perverse energy out of the Limerick idiom, the collection generates a singular music that is memorable, unsettling and humane’ Guardian

‘Eerie, dark and twisted . . . Blindboy’s passion for Irish nature, mythology and folklore lends a spiritual profundity’ Buzz

You don’t fully appreciate how large a donkey’s head is until it’s beside you in a Fiat Punto. The view in my mirror was furry and violent. I was driving blind.

Driving with a donkey stuffed in the back seat; jackdaws pecking brains out through the roof of a confessional box; cat piss and astronauts. This is the world not as you see it, but as it is, twisted from the maverick mind of Blindboyboatclub.

These are stories of the strange unsettlings in the souls of men caught in between the past and the possible; stories of heart-blinding rage and disquieting compassion.

Taking its title from a twelfth-century English manuscript of the same name, which dehumanised the people and culture of Ireland to facilitate domination, Topographia Hibernica is a collection that unravels the knotted threads of humanity, nature and colonisation from a contemporary Irish perspective.

Called ‘one of the most gifted writers of his generation’ by the Irish Times, Blindboyboatclub is the essential voice for the Irish condition in the twenty-first century. Topographia Hibernica is his unmissable new short-story collection.

Publisher Review

One of the most gifted writers of his generation * Michael Harding - Irish Times * A bestseller in the bag * Irish Independent * A cultural phenomenon... Earnest and intellectual, but also funny and down-to-earth.... Talking to him can feel like skittering around a galaxy of Wikipedia wormholes (in a good way) * New York Times *

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