A Singular Country is J.P. Donleavy's idiosyncratic and personal view of Ireland told in the vern...

'In this book of short pieces Donleavy has given us the lyric poems to go with his epics. They ar...

A Fairy Tale of New York is a funny, lusty, and sad novel of comic genius. Returning from study a...

Edna O'Brien chose John Ryan's memoirs as her Observer Book of the Year in 1975, describing it as...

With the world a harsh and cruel place and an enemy out to get you if he can, courtesy will not m...

Jocelyn Guenevere Marchantiere Jones, sometime resident of Scarsdale, educated at Bryn Mawr, has ...

It is literally history combined with Donleavy's autobiography ¿ from his childhood in the Bronx,...

Semi-orphaned, semi-legitimate heir to crumbling Andromeda Park in the lush beauty of the Irish c...

A wily American driving his psychiatrist crazy in Vienna. Prey of a wealthy countess who wants hi...

Alfonso Stephen O'Kelly known as Stephen, son of rumoured former bootleggers, ex-naval gunner, un...

J. P. Donleavy has been writing now for forty-five years and, as he admits, an answer to the ques...