House of Splendid Isolation

Author	Italo Svevo
ISBN	0375727760

Long hailed as a seminal work of modernism in the tradition of Joyce and Kafka, and now available in a supple new English translation, Italo Svevo’s charming and splendidly idiosyncratic novel conducts readers deep into one hilariously hyperactive and endlessly self-deluding mind. The mind in...

Author	Wilkie Collins
ISBN	1587156911

Is there no explanation of the mystery of The Haunted Hotel? Is The Haunted Hotel the tale of a haunting -- or the tale of a crime? The ghost of Lord Montberry haunts the Palace Hotel in Venice --- or does it? Montberry's beautiful-yet-terrifying wife, the Countess Narona, and her erstwhile brother are...

Author	Emilie Pine
ISBN	1999700848

`The person who loves the addict exhausts and renews their love on a daily basis' In this vivid and powerful collection of essays, the first non- fiction book published by Tramp Press, Emilie Pine boldly confronts the past to better understand herself, her relationships and her role in society. Tackling...

Author	Elizabeth Bowen
ISBN	0385720149

The Last September is Elizabeth Bowen's portrait of a young woman's coming of age in a brutalized time and place, where the ordinariness of life floats like music over the impending doom of history.

In 1920, at their country home in County Cork, Sir Richard Naylor and his wife, Lady Myra, and...

Author	John McGahern
ISBN	0571212212

Widely considered to be the finest Irish writer of fiction at work today, John McGahern gives us a new novel that, with insight, humor, and deep sympathy, brings to vivid life the world and the people of a contemporary Irish village.

It is a village flirting with the more sophisticated trappings...

Author

Patrick McCabe

From the award-winning author of "The Butcher Boy" comes a new novel of extraordinary power that, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, "confirm[s] McCabe's standing as one of the most brilliant writers to ever come out of Ireland".In "The Dead School", Patrick McCabe returns to the emotionally...

Author	Valeria Parrella
ISBN	8806230611

Esiste un’isola nel Mediterraneo dove i ragazzi non scendono mai a mare. Ormeggiata come un vascello, Nisida è un carcere sull’acqua, ed è lí che Elisabetta Maiorano insegna matematica a un gruppo di giovani detenuti. Ha cinquant’anni, vive sola, e ogni giorno una guardia le apre il cancello...

Author	Alice McDermott
ISBN	2264031115

The late Billy Lynch's family and friends gather at a small bar and grill in the Bronx to remember better times. His widow, Maeve, is there and everyone admires the way she is holding up, just as they always admired the way she cared for Billy after the alcohol had ruined him. But one cannot think of Billy...