PATRICK MCCABE

Sequel to the bestselling Butcher Boy, Francie Brady is back! Francie Brady, the broken Butcher Boy, leads a busy life in Fizzbag Mansions, where he was incarcerated five decades ago after the mistake with Mrs Nugent. Still obsessed with the comic books of his childhood, he has found a new vocation as a publisher of his very own magazine, The Big Yaroo, and Francie throws himself into its production, working to a deadline in more ways than one. Along the way, he remembers Da, Uncle Alo, Joe Purcell and his beloved Ma, and wrestles a desire to escape his past with the worlds need for him to exorcise his childhood demons. As Francie is drawn even further into the dark world of his own mind, the line between reality and delusion ceases to mean anything. Uproariously funny, terrifying and profound, this is the swansong of one Irish literatures most enduring characters.

Now entering his sixty-seventh year, Chris McCool can confidently call himself a member of the Happy Club: he has an attractive and exceedingly accommodating Croatian girlfriend and has been told he bears more than a passing resemblance to Roger Moore. As he looks back on the glory days of his youth, he recalls the swinging sixties of rural Ireland: a decade in which the cool cats sang along to Lulu and drove around in Ford Cortinas, when swinging meant wearing velvet trousers and shirts with frills, and where Dolores McCausland - Dolly Mixtures to those who knew her best - danced on the tops of tables and set the pulses of every man in small-town Cullymore racing. Chris McCool had it all back then. He had the moves, he had the car, and he had Dolly, a woman who purred suggestive songs and tugged gently at her skin-tight dresses, a Protestant femme fatale who was glamorous, transgressive and who called him her very own 'Mr Wonderful'. She was, in short, the answer to this bastard son of a Catholic farmer's prayers. Except that there was another Mr Wonderful in town, a certain Marcus Otoyo - a young Nigerian with glossy curls and a dazzling devoutness that was all but irresistible.Although Chris, of course, was interested in Marcus only because of their shared religious fervour and mutual appreciation of the finer things. That was all. Besides, Mr McCool was always a hopeless romantic - some even described him as excessively so - but is there anything wrong with that? Spiked with macabre humour and disquieting revelations, The Holy City is a brilliant, disturbing and compelling novel from one of Ireland's most original contemporary writers

Strangely elegiac, gloriously epic and driven by Patrick McCabes wild and savage imagination, The Stray Sod Country is an eerie folk tale that chronicles the passing of generation. from the closed terraces and back lanes of rural Ireland to the information highway and global separations of our own time, it is at once an homage to what we think we may have lost and a chilling reminder that the past has never really passed.

"Si Roddy Doyle es The Beatles de la ficción irlandesa moderna, Patrick McCabe es The Rolling Stones". Irvine Welsh, autor de Trainspotting.Redmond Hatch regresa a la región montañosa donde nació. Alli conoce a Red Strange, un hombre extraño y seductor que toca el violin y cuenta cuentos tan encantadores que los hombres y mujeres de la zona estan dispuestos a permitir que se acerque a sus pequeños hijos. Hasta que un dia se lo encuentra culpable de actos terribles, cuyas victimas eran, precisamente, esos niños.Una vez, Redmond habia sido feliz. Estaba casado con la bella Catherine y su hija Immy iluminaba sus dias. Pero luego se sintio obligado a protegerla de la infidelidad, la traicion y de otros horrores que amenazaban el magico reino de la pequeña Immy. Ahora Redmond es un vagabundo, perseguido por el espectro terrible de Strange...Redmond decide reinventarse y se convierte en Dominic Tiernan, un exitoso periodista televisivo, con una nueva esposa y una nueva felicidad. Entonces, vuelve a ver a Catherine, y los antiguos terrores regresan para acosarlo nuevamente.Como los mejores relatos, Bosque frio, nombrada mejor novela irlandesa de 2007 por el prestigioso periodico Irish Independent, es una historia sencilla y compleja a la vez, que nos habla del horror mas grande: el que to...

“...conocer los sórdidos y despachurrantes detalles de la vida que en una ocasión llevó el querido Patrick Braden –suspiro- dulce Conejito tito tito, criatura perfumada de la noche que solía arrasar

Francie Brady, un chico sensible, tiene una infancia traumática que le conducirá a una brutal metamorfosis, pasando de ser un niño rebelde a un criminal despiadado. Su trabajo como ayudante de carnicero es sin duda un buen entrenamiento para el crimen.

Malachy Dudgeon has escaped the misery and madness of his childhood home and landed a job in the most famous school in Dublin. The headmaster, Raphael Bell, has overcome his own tragedies to forge a model career, but when Malachy Dudgeon and Raphael Bell meet, they become inextricably engaged in a macabre relationship which proves fatal to their fortunes and their sanity. 'McCabe can make you howl at the darkest antics ...He never sets a foot - or syllable - wrong. His novel is death on a laugh-support machine. Stupendous.' - "Scotland on Sunday." 'Raphael, the great headmaster, is a ...

The intention was, of course, to bring her out to Winterwood to that magical place that only me and her knew but I wouldnt tell her that until much later on, for I wanted it to be as much of a surprise as possible Kimono! I remember laughing Kimono and Pinkie Pie! The Magic Castle, here we come! Winterwood, a place of dreams and mystery. Once, near Dublin, Redmond was in heaven, married to the sugar-lipped Catherine, and father to lovely daughter Immy. But later, much later, Red did something. And it could all never be like that again. Winterwood, a place of escape and sanctuary. Red meets Auld Pappie Ned, a fiddler and teller of tales with honeyed words who seems the authentic spirit of the old valley, indeed a fiddler by nature and a man so mesmerising that Red sees himself anew, so new in fact that only a fresh name will now do as he leaves (he hopes) the demons of his past behind, the apparitions. And then one day Red spies Catherine again And still even this is not quite enough to save his new love Casey from the man whos called Dominic Tiernan. Winterwood, a place of chill and threat. Of danger, and worse.

Seven men wait in Mervyns Mountain Bar, awaiting the arrival of Tony Begley and his six-inch boning knife, Sweety. Ray Ringo Wade hides above them in the rafters, silent and consumed by shame as Jody, the only friend hes ever known, lies beaten and bound in the outhouse, waiting to meet his maker at the hands of the bars raucous inhabitants. The reason for this bloody retribution? Ray and Jody went and jacked over the one and only William Walter Monroe the man who took them in, for better or worse, and single-handedly moulded Glasson County into a place people could be proud of. To a man, they bear the mark of Cain, and the acts of the past are never far from the present. Insulated from the world by his shaky delusion, Ray Wade recounts the tale he has no choice but to live with. A backwoods sinfonia of rough poetry and black comedy about the love we give and the horror we visit upon one other and ourselves.