The Unexpurgated CodePossibly the funniest book ever written. The New York Times Republishing on the centenary of Donleavys birth, and hailed as Possibly the funniest book ever written, The Unexpurgated Code is a satirical guide to etiquette for social climbers. Originally published in 1975, even J. P. Donleavy himself was reluctant to categorize this book, hinting that perhaps it is still fiction. A guide to social climbing and survival in the asphalt jungle as only

Illustrated by period photographs

MacErlean from Studies

The long history of the island is legible in the architecture of the past

Various and vital

Ravelling’s diverse

Neary’s beautifully illustrated volume (with maps and photographs) covers the areas of Ashtown

exasperation and bewilderment

when the first edition of The Growth Illusion appeared

Featuring writing by: Max Porter

Mary Morrissy’s inimitable characters revisit their pasts and grapple with late-life perspectives in this beautiful tapestry of late middle-age reckoning

they render history in the making

dramatic pictures constitute a singular photographic achievement