The Saddest Summer of Samuel S

A wily American driving his psychiatrist crazy in Vienna. Prey of a wealthy countess who wants him comfortable and secure – and her very own. Master of his domain – his sealed, darkened, disheveled apartment on a dank Vienna sidestreet. Ab...

Meet My Maker the Mad Molecule

‘In this book of short pieces Donleavy has given us the lyric poems to go with his epics. They are almost all elegies – sad songs of decayed hope, bitter little jitterbuggings of an exasperated soul, with barracuda bites of lacerating humo...

The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B

Balthazar B is the world’s last shy, elegant young man. Born to riches and a blonde mother’s breast in Paris, raised in lonely splendour, a soul bemused with the world’s haphazard frailties, he hopes to find each new day just as he l...

The History of the Ginger Man: An Autobiography

This is the dramatic story of J. P. Donleavy’s personal struggle to create and publish a book that became a twentieth-century masterpiece: The Ginger Man . It is literally history combined with Donleavy’s autobiography – from his chi...

J.P Donleavy: An Author and His Image

J. P. Donleavy has been writing now for forty-five years and, as he admits, an answer to the question why is ‘ difficult to dig out of a long past’. Yet over these pages he author’s query is largely answered for him: he has written s...

A Singular Country

 A Singular Country is J.P. Donleavy’s idiosyncratic and personal view of Ireland told in the vernacular of the Irishman, which he has nearly, but not quite, become. “A country where the dead are forever living and which is at once ma...