At the Irish Football Programme Club fair, people hunt for the rare and the strange
“It seemed like a good idea at the time,” says Gareth Jones, standing over his own extensive collection, sprawled out over several tables.
A burnt-out journalist witnesses a murder near the graves of two exiled taoisigh in Rome in an impressive thriller marrying modern corruption with early Christianity.
This imaginative noir comedy novel follows a misanthropic PI around Ireland – and is built on in-jokes, literary allusions, and puns on Irish language place names and orthography, writes our reviewer.