The Third Policeman

by Flann O'Brien

Published September 1967

A masterpiece of black humour from the renown comic and acclaimed author of ‘At Swim-Two-Birds’ – Flann O’Brien.

A thriller, a hilarious comic satire about an archetypal village police force, a surrealistic vision of eternity, the story of a tender, brief, unrequited love affair between a man and his...

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Dalkey Archive

by Flann O'Brien

Published December 1964
Considered by the author to be almost a work of science fiction, the book includes among its characters St Augustine, James Joyce and a man who is in danger of turning into a bicycle. There is also the first published portrait of the mad scientist, who was later to...Read more

The Poor Mouth

by Flann O'Brien

Published 19 November 1973

The classic satire from the renowned comic and acclaimed author of `At Swim-Two-Birds' - Flann O'Brien.

Flann O'Brien's gloriously wicked satire of the traditional Irish peasant novel, The Poor Mouth tells the shamelessly ironic story of Bonaparte O'Coonassa, born in the West of Ireland `on a terrible winter's night'.

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