At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien

At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'BrienFlann 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.

Let's hope so - otherwise the next child a gruesome giant guzzles could be YOU

You are in the hands of a writer at the height of her powers' Evening Standard

But this is love story that will lead both of them into terrible danger

' Olivia Laing

surviving as best she can by pretending to be normal

When the Velveteen Rabbit first arrives in the nursery

What kind of future is it

He also asks what we have learnt from this body of thought

A visionary collection of luminous landscapes

Long John has a whole crew of wild pirates in tow

Before The Matrix

weathered landscape of cliffs