Night Journey to Buddh GaiaIn a letter to his friend Charles Ford, Jonathan Swift wrote: I have finished my travells and I am now transcribing them: they are admirable things and will wonderfully mend the world. In Night Journey to Buddh Gaia, John Moriarty, like Gulliver, is a traveller to exotic places: ancient Egypt, Sumeria, Babylonia, Canaan, Judaea, ancient Greece, ancient Rome, medieval, Renaissance, Enlightenment and modern Europe, ending in the Waste Land of our own

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William Francis Butler: A LifeÊby Martin Ryan \n \nTipperary-born

is possibly the most important work of Joyce biography since Ellmann

The struggles of families such as Hennessy

Their intertwined lives reach a symmetry seldom found in the haphazard progression of events

Once the pandemic arrived however

They are all about human yearning and wandering

centrepiece to the collection

the landscape

even lunchtime visits to the local pub become points of attrition

which draws on the current proliferation of academic research Òto present a synthesis of our understanding of the elevation of the cityÓ

Winner of the Premio Commisso in Italy for Best Biography 2004