Strangers Kitty and Simon inherit a rundown house and fields in mid-Ireland. At a time of transition all around, the house draws them back into its history. With his friend Josh, Simon is engaged in illegal deals and when Kitty becomes involved, the three are caught in a life of deception played out against the beginnings of the Celtic Tiger.

All the people in these stories break rules and test the boundaries of habit, faith, or even television. For good or bad, the covers are stripped away and life can never be the same again. Humour flits through the unsettling events, from an invasion by cows, crime in Dublin, death in a dustbin, to village legends and the everyday visions of a mad girl.

In the middle of Liverpool, this one street is rich with friends and family, a small village oblivious to the world outside. They are linked spiritually as Roman Catholics. But as Mary begins to question her faith, and the 1960s arrive, Maryland Street is demolished by Liverpool Corporation and there is no trace these people ever existed.

This collection of poetry, starting with Madame Defarge, follows different and unorthodox ways of engaging with politics and society