Topographia Hibernica

Blindboyboatclub's collection Topographia Hibernica is a dark, twisted, and memorable exploration of Irish nature, mythology, and folklore. The stories are set in a world not as you see it, but as it is, twisted from the maverick mind of Blindboyboatclub. The collection is named after a twelfth-century English manuscript that dehumanized Ireland, and unravels the knotted threads of humanity, nature, and colonization from a contemporary Irish perspective. Blindboyboatclub is described as one of the most gifted writers of his generation by the Irish Times.

Format: Hardback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 16 November 2023
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Powered by immense, perverse energy out of the Limerick idiom, the collection generates a singular music that is memorable, unsettling, and humane. Guardian Eerie, dark, and twisted. . . . Blindboy's passion for Irish nature, mythology, and folklore lends a spiritual profundity. Buzz You don't fully appreciate how large a donkey's head is until it's beside you in a Fiat Punto. The view in my mirror was furry and violent. I was driving blind. Driving with a donkey stuffed in the back seat; jackdaws pecking brains out through the roof of a confessional box; cat piss and astronauts. This is the world not as you see it, but as it is, twisted from the maverick mind of Blindboyboatclub. These are stories of the strange unsettlings in the souls of men caught in between the past and the possible; stories of heart-blinding rage and disquieting compassion. Taking its title from a twelfth-century English manuscript of the same name, which dehumanized the people and culture of Ireland to facilitate domination, Topographia Hibernica is a collection that unravels the knotted threads of humanity, nature, and colonization from a contemporary Irish perspective. Called one of the most gifted writers of his generation by the Irish Times, Blindboyboatclub is the essential voice for the Irish condition in the twenty-first century. Topographia Hibernica is his unmissable new short-story collection.

Weight: 406g
Dimension: 144 x 223 x 27 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781529371628