Description: McCabe sent us Poguemahone, what we're calling "the most fuck-it of 'fuck-it' books," with this description : Here's an otherworldly beat-bopping' smack snorting supernatural Irish ceilidh dancing murderer and child-stealer from the subconsicious of a dementia sufferer written in the style of old time folklore of the future hope you enjoy it, maybe think of the movie Don't Look Now starring Barry Fitzgerald. Critical acclaim: McCabe is twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Editorial comps include Ducks, Newburyport, Lanny, Milkman, and Beyond the Black. McCabe cites Ulysses, The Waste Land, and The Great Hunger by Patrick Kavanagh as major influences. Contemporary issues: Irish diaspora . Employing Irish mythology and folklore, as well as Celtic languages, to tell the story of one family's exile by the Catholic Church from Ireland and subsequent immigrant life in London, Poguemahone is an irreverent act of cultural reclamation. Publication to coincide with Unbound's UK edition A Guardian 2022 Book to Look Out For: called "this century's Ulysses " by Alex Preston (but we promise it's a much more accessible version: if the narrator of Ducks, Newburyport happened to be a mysterious Irishman with a penchant for prog rock and an abiding love for his aging sister.

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