Goodbye AgainIn Goodbye Again by Joseph Hone,Ben Contini, a disenchanted painter of considerable talent, has just buried his mother. Rifling through the attic of her Kilkenny house he stumbles across a Modigliani nude, worth millions. Determined to learn the provenance of the painting, he and Elsa, a disturbed and secretive woman who accosts him at the funeral, become embroiled in the sinister world of Nazi art theft. But they are not the only one with an interest

whose delight is to celebrate l’amour

This miscellany gathers together essays and papers written over a span of sixty-odd years

shortlisted for the Prix Goncourt and awarded the Grand Prix de Roman de l’Académie Française

apart from a period in Hull and as a visiting professor in American universities

The Sway of Winter tells the story of Birgit

Christian – the assonances and dissonances of this paradoxical City are yet interpreted with lucidity and laconic wit

Con’s sister and Matt’s sweetheart

but that is sufficient – we are all gay as larks

Including twenty-four illustrations and fifty annotated letters

an adjective from the Irish language combining the lonesome

They form a visual tribute to this powerful dramatist and writer

drawing the eye to detail upwards