Three New Books:

We are delighted to publish a new novel In the Foul Rag-and-Bone Shop by Jack Harte, as well as a new edition of his acclaimed second novel, Reflections in a Tar-Barrel.

We are also delighted to present a debut collection of poems by Gerry Coffey.

In the Foul Rag-and-Bone Shop by Jack Harte

This playfully philosophical novel tackles the major issues of our time: money, power, identity, celebrity, art, the nature of civilisation. With a galaxy of quirky characters, the plot twists and turns unpredictably like a beached eel, always with ironic overtones.

Launched at the Dublin Book Festival 2023.

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Reflections in a Tar-Barrel (2023 edition) by Jack Harte

Set in the Mid-Seventies, this novel explores the world through the eyes of an eccentric young man, Lofty, and follows his journey of exploration from the West of Ireland to Paris and Lourdes. The relationship he strikes up with a sex worker on the streets of Paris leads back to the woman-starved West of Ireland where Lofty now combines the roles of hawker in religious goods and keeper of a mobile brothel. Events accelerate with accumulating menace and hurtle towards disaster.

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Aspects of a Life by Gerry Coffey

This is a first collection of poems by Gerry Coffey. These poems reflect his varied experiences, from growing up in Clondalkin, to the music culture that inspired his generation, to family tribulations and tragedies, to projects for the betterment of people.

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