Young Skins and Homesickness, his collections of short stories, were brilliantly successful. Set over a weekend in County Mayo among a group of young, this is his first novel.
The Nuremberg Trials had their counterpart in Japan. This is a thorough investigation of that process, and its significance to what happened afterwards in Asia.
The labours of Hercules are as nothing to those of archeo-botanists... tamarisk, red bryony, poplar etc and their role in traditional medicine - based on cuneiform inscriptions and intimate ... read more
An eccentric archive of skeps drawn from old books, newspaper cuttings and other ephemera from all over the world and from all ages. Their ingenuity and variety are immense: of wood, terraco... read more