Item:

THE TAO OF ODDS AND ENDS

This novel takes three ancient Chinese Taoist stories from the Book of Chuang Tzu and re-tells them, setting them in the present-day West. They are all interconnected in an innovative way that is itself inspired by Chuang Tzu, and framed by a fourth story based on concepts from the equally ancient Tao Te Ching.

The stories' styles vary from something like the stillness of Amos Oz to a kind of Saki-esque dinner party to near-fairytale to melancholy surrealism, and is an exploration of what Taoism is all about and how it might or might not apply to the modern world.

Read an excerpt.

Buy the full novel as a PDF using Paypal. The PDF is emailed to you when payment is received. Any queries, contact us.

10 euro

Item:

WHAT THE OSTRICH SEES IN THE SAND

An affluent couple decide to drop everything, withdraw from life and make a model village in their living room. The story features many amusing characters, including the couple's son, who is conducting an 'experiment' in their attic, and an old man who lives in a caravan writing 'tracts'.

This is primarily a fable about order and chaos, and the cycle of creation and destruction, replete with mystical analogies, but as it was written in the 1990s, it is also a surreal satire of the new materialist Ireland, and an apprehensive exploration of what the 'creative' life might mean.

Read an excerpt.

Buy the full novel as a PDF using Paypal. The PDF is emailed to you when payment is received. Any queries, contact us.

10 euro

With a plot borrowed from the Wizard of Oz, Barry Kavanagh's The Occultists tells the story of four young people in pre-economic boom Dublin who form an occult group, the activities of which are based more on emotional hysteria than any form of ceremonial or ritual magic.

Buy the full novel as a PDF using Paypal. The PDF is emailed to you when payment is received. For excerpts or other queries, contact us.

10 euro