Iremonger has arrived - back in Dublin for Christmas, and centre stage ( he'd have it no other way ) in your imagination. A young man on an anti-mission, he has spent the last six months blowing his revered grandfather's legacy on a 'transcontinental lost weekend'. Armed with hias trusty leather jacket 'Nico' - a virtual second skin - he's intent on having fun and isn't going to let the bully boys of existence ( the past and the future ) push him around. But after a season of excess, it turns out to be the present that finally catches up with him.

A novel of 'mad pinters' and priests, Roomkeepers and ravers, 'Semtex' and sensibility, A Sort of Homecoming is as much about the old truths as it is about the new Ireland.