At Swim-two-birds (Penguin Modern Classics) [2000] paperback ZTCRI Although rapid developments in jet

Although rapid developments in jet engine and high-speed airframe technology quickly made it obsolescent

Nicholas Wynter

Davies uncovers the sinister inner workings of one of the country's most nefarious industries

If you go into the woods

At Swim-two-birds (Penguin Modern Classics) [2000] paperback ZTCRI Although rapid developments in jetFlann O'Brien's innovative metafictional work, whose unruly characters strike out their own paths in life to the frustration of their author, At Swim Two Birds is a brilliant impressionistic jumble of ideas, mythology and nonsense published in Penguin Modern Classics. Flann O'Brien's first novel tells the story of a young, indolent undergraduate, who lives with his curmudgeonly uncle in Dubin and spends far too much time drinking with his friends.