A masterpiece of black humour from the renown comic and acclaimed author of 'At Swim-Two-Birds' -- Flann O'Brien.

The undergraduate narrator lives with his uncle in Dublin, drinks too much with his friends and invents stories peopled with hilarious and unlikely characters, one of whom, creates a means by which women can give birth to full-grown people.

Takes you to a world where bicycles listen to conversations, inventors search for methods of 'diluting' water, and characters play truant while novelists sleep; a world where spiteful fairies wreak havoc and heroes from legend blunder into suburban sitting-rooms.

First published in Gaelic in 1941 under the title "An Beal Bocht", this book was translated into English in 1973. A parody of the Gaelic peasant writings of the Irish revival, the book features Bonaparte O'Coonassa - who tells the story of his life. By the author of "The Dalkey Archive".

From the author of the classic novel 'At-Swim-Two-Birds' comes this ingenious tale which follows the mad and absurd ambitions of a scientist determined to destroy the world.

Under the pseudonym Myles na Gopaleen, Flann O' Brien wrote a daily column in the 'Irish Times' called 'Cruiskeen Lawn' for over twenty years which hilariously satirised the absurdities and solemnities of Dublin life.

This translated work brings together a selection of the funniest pieces by Flann O'Brien. Never before published in the English language, this is a collection of works from one of Ireland's greatest writers, taken from the Gaelic column he wrote in the Irish Times .

From one of Ireland's greatest modernists and author of At Swim-Two-Birds a novel of pure and ruthless wit, woven around the tale of two orphaned Dubliners.

Concerns an imaginary, hellish village police force and a local murder.

From one of the great Irish modernists and author of At Swim-Two-Birds a collection of monstrously funny tall tales featuring the infamous Keats and Chapman.

A novel that concerns an imaginary but hellish village police force and a local murder.