Roger Boylan is a booze-soaked humorist in the tradition of James Joyce, Flann O'Brien, and Samuel Beckett.Roger Boylan’s first novel is about the inhabitants of the Irish town of Killoyle: Milo Rogers, a headwaiter and would-be poet with a bit of a drinking problem and a bit of a sexual one; Kathy Hickman, a writer for the woman's fashion magazine Glam andformer pin-up girl; Wolfetone Grey, who reads books only by or about God, and who also makes anonymou...

The hapless inhabitants of Killoyle, Ireland, face all manner of chaos in this comic novel from an author "capable of spinning a fabulous yarn" ( Minnesota Daily).After local lush Mick McCreek gets into a car crash with a cross-dressing church sexton, he enlists the help of a lawyer, Tom O'Mallet. As it turns out, the lawyer's real gig is selling missiles to an IRA splinter group, and he plans to use his clueless client as a patsy.O'Mallet also hoo...

A Killoyle scorre placido il tempo intorno alla Spudorgan Hall, il locale albergo abbarbicato a guardia di una piccola comunità che divide pigramente l’esistenza tra il pub e la chiesa, in cerca del conforto di una pinta o dell’assoluzione. Ma quando il sordido Tom Maher insidia le certezze di Emmet Power, amministratore della Spudorgan Hall, la tranquilla routine di Killoyle sembra fatalmente destinata a infrangersi. Con questo romanzo esplosivo, caustico e irriverente, Roger Boylan compe...

What moves the Archangel Michael to recruit Gustave Termi, a middle-aged professor in modern-day Geneva, into his legions of divine warriors? It's a total mystery to Gustave, who isn't even sure he believes in God, and is certainly no one's idea of a warrior. He tries psychoanalysis to clear up the visions. That doesn’t work, but a chance encounter with journalist Martine Jeanrenaud in the therapist’s waiting room changes his life. Martine, it turns out, has recently published the biograph...

Sherlock Holmes: Volume 1 is a great introduction to the world's most famous pipe-smoking detective, Holmes himself. Experience two complete novels and two collections of short stories now!Sherlock Holmes, Volume 1 is a great introduction to the series which features the early works written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Included are the novels A Study in Scarlet (1887) and The Sign of the Four (1890...