From his side-splitting account of the Ireland's soccer adventure at the 1994 World Cup to his widely acclaimed radio diaries for RTÉ Drivetime programme, award-winning novelist Joseph O' Connor tells tales that both parody and illuminate the strange times in which we live.

In this selection of classic journalism and non-fiction, including the very best of Irish Male trilogy, the author of the Star of the Sea and Redemption Falls displays an eye for the absurd, a lightness of touch, and a recession-busting comic spirit.