Best-Loved Swift by Jonathan Swift

Best-Loved Swift by Jonathan SwiftAn attractive and approachable selection of the work of the first of Ireland's truly great writers, Jonathan Swift. Extracts from his fiction, social satires, poems both lyrical and scatological, essays in fantasy, epigrams, and personal letters present, along with the editor's introductory pieces, the twin stories of Swift's controversial public career and of his unusual, conflicted, private life. Whether he was mocking the English king and

Beneath the surface

Adam Nicolson gives an invitation to the shoreline

The book is based on the real-life character of Giuseppe ‘Pino’ Puglisi who was born

Glittering with wit

But then their new lodger Kate arrives

Mr Gray does not like people

as an entire nation turned away in revulsion from the British artillery and executions

How many species are extinct and how many are in danger

poetic prose explores and records the rocks

Irish diplomats and their families have been inspired to give creative expression to their experiences

Will stay with you forever

Neither parent knows that one of the children will not survive the week