The Book on One 2008
The latest book to be featured on The Book on One September 15 – 19 is “Matters of Life and Death” by Bernard MacLaverty.
“Matters of Life and Death” is the finest collection of short stories yet from a contemporary master of the form. Beginning with the sudden, nauseating terror of a family caught up in an explosion of shocking sectarian violence and ending with the white-out of an Iowa blizzard and a different kind of fear, “Matters of Life and Death” is a book about bonds and connections, made and broken, secret and known. Vivid, beautifully controlled and written with effortless skill and empathy, these stories are object lessons in the art of short fiction.
Synopsis: The Trojan Sofa tells the tale of a dodgy antiques dealer who incarcerates his son in a sofa and then delivers it to the buyer.
The next morning, when the residents of the house have left, the boy cuts his way out of the sofa and opens the door for his father, who steals anything of value as well as the modus operandi.
September 1 – 5 , 8 – 12 Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffery Chaucer.
Synopsis: Now listen with good will, as I go straight to my subject matter, in which you may hear the double sorrows of Troilus in his love for Criseyde, and how she forsook him before she died’
Monday 25 – Friday 29 August is REBECCA by Daphne du Maurier
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again …Working as a lady’s companion, the heroine of Rebecca learns her place. Life begins to look very bleak until, on a trip to the South of France, she meets Maxim de Winter, a handsome widower whose sudden proposal of marriage takes her by surprise. She accepts, but whisked from glamorous Monte Carlo to the ominous and brooding Manderley, the new Mrs de Winter finds Max a changed man. And the memory of his dead wife Rebecca is forever kept alive by the forbidding Mrs Danvers …Not since Jane Eyre has a heroine faced such difficulty with the Other Woman. An international bestseller that has never gone out of print, Rebecca is the haunting story of a young girl consumed by love and the struggle to find her identity … REBECCA by Daphne du Maurier
Monday 18 – Friday 22 August is
The Old Munster Circuit by Maurice Healy
Monday 11 – Friday 15 August :: Jude: Level 1
Jude is a Tipperary-reared orphan who on his 18th birthday sets off to discover the wide world and his true parentage. His picaresque adventures take him first to the “Sodom of the West” – Galway – where he falls in love, encounters temptations galore and, disguised as Stephen Hawking, unwittingly blows up the HQ of a Multi-National Corporation – and himself. With his face reconstructed into the spitting image of Leonardo DiCaprio (apart from the small matter of an erectile nose) Jude travels on foot to the inferno of Dublin, in hot pursuit of Angela, ex-Galway chipshop employee and his True Love. A spectacular chase through the city of Ulysses ensues, transformed by Gougha??s talent into a dazzling metaphor of 21st century violence, alienation and progress.
Monday 4 August – Friday 8 August
MIND THAT, ‘TIS MY BROTHER by Gaye Shortland
Monday 7 July – Friday 11 July
NIGHT IN TUNISIA by Neil Jordan
Monday 23 June – 27 June
CAN LILY O’SHEA COME OUT TO PLAY by Lily O’Connor
Monday 16 June – 20 June
NO MAN’S LAND by Richard Crowley
Monday 9 June – 13 June
THE LIGHTNING TREE by P.J. Curtis
Monday 2 June – 6 June
TROILUS AND CRISEYDE by Geoffrey Chaucer
Monday 26 May – 30 May
THE BROOKLYN FOLLIES by Paul Auster
Monday 17th May – Friday 23rd May
WITH MY LAZY EYE by Julia Kelly
Monday 12th May – Friday 16th May
GOODNIGHT BALLIVOR, I’LL SLEEP IN TRIM – Author John Quinn.
RULE 42 AND ALL THAT by Seán Kelly
Monday 28th April – Friday 2nd May
THE YACOUBIAN BUILDING by Alaa Al Aswany
Monday 21st April – Friday 25th April
JUDE: LEVEL 1 by Julian Gough
Monday 14th April – Friday 18th April
OUT STEALING HORSES by Per Petterson
Monday 7th April – Friday 11th April
THE OLD MUNSTER CIRCUIT by Maurice Healy
Monday 31st March – Friday 4th April
WALKING THE BLUE FIELDS by Claire Keegan
Monday 22nd – Friday 28th March
THE PEAR IS RIPE by John Montague
Monday 17th – Friday 21st March
An Cléireach le Darach Ó Scolaí
Monday 10th – Friday 14th March
A MIGHTY HEART by Mariane Pearl
Monday 3rd – Friday 7th March
BEING THERE by Jerzy Kosinski
Monday 25th – Friday 29th February
REBECCA by Daphne du Maurier
Monday 18th – Friday 22th February
THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA by Ernest Hemingway
Monday 11th – Friday 15th February
THE END OF THE RELATIONSHIP by Will Self
From the short story collection ‘Grey Area’ by Will Self
Monday 4th – Friday 8th February
CAN LILY O’SHEA COME OUT TO PLAY? by Lily O’Connor
Monday 28th January – Friday 1st February
THE LONELY PASSION OF JUDITH HEARNE by Brian Moore
Monday 21st – Friday 25th January
NO MAN’S LAND
Monday 14th – Friday 18th January
THE LOCKED ROOM by Paul Auster
Monday 7th – Friday 11th January
THE FAHRENHEIT TWINS by Michel Faber