In 1973, aged twenty-two, Timothy O'Grady left America. Among them was Timothy O'Grady, and he decided to go back and investigate. He went out onto the American road, travelling over fifteen thousand miles through thirty-five states.
What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas... But what happens to the people who grow up there?
All through the night as they go from bar to bar the young man tells the story of the great love of his life, of how in the midst of their rapture the woman inexplicably disappeared, and of how he is now driving across Europe in a desperate attempt to find her.
A beautifully crafted literary novel about how art and war intersect with the lives of an architect, an investment banker and a sniper.
A short, poetic novel that reads like a memoir, I Could Read the Sky follows an old Irish labourer in London who, during the course of a day, experiences vivid memories of rural Ireland, lost love, music and hardship.