At the heart of this collection of short stories is Ireland, a strange, myth-ridden land, with a gallery of characters called mad by society for their reckless disregard of convention and for their intense imaginations

The diamonds at the bottom of the sea and other stories

Literature & Fiction

Hogan, Desmond

Short Stories & Anthologies

Hamish Hamilton

Beginning in the late 1940s when they are upper-middle-class boys in a small Irish town, Sean and Liam are bound together by love and rivalry and find themselves longing for the same women

The Leaves on Grey

Pan Books

A Curious Street

Faber&Faber

One of Ireland's most important writers at his finest. Written over a period of twelve years, these stories seem to move nowehere with relentless, slow precision, yet each is as fulfilling and rich with suggestion as a full-scale novel.

A Link with the River

British & Irish

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

One of Ireland's most important writers at his finest. Written over a period of twelve years, these stories seem to move nowehere with relentless, slow precision, yet each is as fulfilling and rich with suggestion as a full-scale novel.

A Link with the River: Stories

This is a collection of stories about Irish characters, often far from home, who are passionate, disparate and desperate. His stories are peopled with exiles, misfits, deviants of all kinds and their victims. The author, who was the recipient of the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize has written "The Ikon Maker", "The Leaves on Grey", "A Curious Street" and "A New Shirt" as well as a collection of short stories "The Mourning Thief".

Lebanon Lodge

Faber Faber Inc

This novel is set in 17th-century Ireland, Rome, Germany and London, Dublin in the 1930s and Belfast today. The plot uses a series of interlocking stories. By the author of "The Diamonds at the Bottom of the Sea" which won the John Llewelyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1980.

Contemporary

Faber and Faber Ltd.

The Edge of the City: A Scrapbook 1976-91

Travel

Travel Writing

The Diamonds at the Bottom of the Sea and Other Stories

George Braziller

The Leaves on Grey: A Novel

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