Written by the author of "Bald Head", this is the story of a critical summer in the life of Frankie Griffin, who lives with his family in a fishing village outside Dublin and who is the gangling, disaster-prone eldest child of an eccentric actor and a domineering mother.

Last Of The High Kings

Mac Anna, Ferdia

Literature & Fiction

Penguin Uk

very good but corners are a little curled.

The Last of the Bald Heads

Hodder Headline Ireland

Ferdia Mac Annas remembers his youth using old diaries and photographs. He includes the trials and tribulations of growing up in a bohemian household in Howth with a director father and wild-at-heart mother, his punk days in Dublin, and stardom as Rocky De Valera, before finding his love and his facing a brain haemorrhage and cancer.

The Rocky Years: Story of a (Almost) Legend

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Hodder&Stoughton

No Bother is a collection of new creative writing from Dundalk writers, compiled and edited by 2012/13 DkIT writer in residence, Ferdia Mac Anna. This book rocks!

No Bother: New Writing from Dundalk Writers

Writers, Dundalk

Short Stories & Anthologies

DkIT PRESS

For a classic urban sass novel, cult hit Cartoon City by Ferdia Mac Anna is hard to beat, with its wild cast of misfits, rebels and Dublin denizens. Anti-hero Myles seeks an out from his journo work. When he falls for the redoubtable Mia, however, he is drawn into the heart of Dublin's underworld with some alarming - and hilarious - consequences. Ferdia Mac Anna's career has brought him from comic writing to memoir, literary fiction and film direction. This is his third novel, originally published by Headline in 2000. It romps through a comic tale of crime, passion and surreal humour at breakneck pace. With an eye for characterisation and a flair for Dublinese, it pogos along like Flann O'Brien with rock'n'roll. This second edition of Cartoon City from 451 Editions - is now available to coincide with its twentieth anniversary.

Cartoon City

Humor & Satire

451 Editions