From the Book - 1st Vintage Books ed.
pt.1. : For to end yet again / Samuel Beckett
pt. II. : The man-keeper / Tom Mac Intyre
The talking trees / Sean O'Faolain
from The killeen / Mary Leland
from A curious street / Desmond Hogan
from Black list, section H / Francis Stuart
from The Christmas tree / Jennifer Johnston
pt. III. : High ground / John McGahern
Postcards / Bridget O'Connor
A woman's hair / Bryan MacMahon
from Balcony of Europe / Aidan Higgins
Blood and water / Éilís Ní Dhuibhne
from The butcher boy / Patrick McCabe
Villa Marta / Clare Boylan
from Burning your own / Glenn Patterson
pt. IV. : The ballroom of romance / William Trevor
from Good behaviour / Molly Keane
Between two shores / Bernard MacLaverty
Memory and desire / Val Mulkerns
The husband / Mary Dorcey
What a sky / Edna O'Brien
pt. V. : from The snapper / Roddy Doyle
Oranges from Spain / David Park
If angels had wings / Eoin McNamee
from Proxopera / Benedict Kiely
Orange horses / Maeve Kelly
from The journey home / Dermot Bolger
from The heather blazing / Colm Tóibín
Mothers were all the same / Joseph O'Connor
The sky's gone out / Sara Berkeley
from Ripley bogle / Robert McLiam Wilson
from Surrogate City / Hugo Hamilton
A rock-'n'-roll death / Michael O'Loughlin
from Remembering light and stone / Deirdre Madden
from The engine of owl-light / Sebastian Barry
Incident on the El Camino Real / Aidan Mathews
Part Six: Men and angels / Anne Enright
Counterpoints / Gerardine Meaney
The hairdresser / Leland Bardwell
from Mefisto / John Banville
Part Seven: The death of Matti Bonner / Dermot Healy
Absent children / John MacKenna
Divided attention / Mary Morrissy
Through the field / Colum McCann.
