Awise and beautiful fairytale for grown-ups, considered one of the greatest novels in the Irish comic tradition
"In the centre of the pine wood called Coilla Doraca there lived not long ago two Philosophers. They were wiser than anything else in the world except the Salmon who lies in the pool of Glyn Cagny into which the nuts of knowledge fall from the hazel bush on its bank. He, of course, is the most profound of living creatures, but the two Philosophers are next to him in wisdom . . . "
Thisquirky, originalclassic iswidely acknowledged as one of the greatest novels in the Irish...
Awise and beautiful fairytale for grown-ups, considered one of the greatest novels in the Irish comic tradition
A lady strays from a garden path and enters a different realm. A king wages dynastic war for control of three kingdoms. As villains plot to take control of an alternate world inhabited by the souls of the dead, a mysterious, magical woman seeks her destiny, igniting a splendid pageantry of battles and quests, poisonous love and triumphant passion, doomed loyalties and unsurpassed courage. And while Edward Lessingham engages in an earthly romance in 20th-century England, seduction in Zimiamvia takes place over the most lavish of banquets.
A lady strays from a garden path and enters a different realm. A king wages dynastic war for control of three kingdoms. As villains plot to take contr...
