The News from Dublin Signed Edition

Readers who have enjoyed Tóibín’s novels will find much to admire in this collection, especially in those stories that are rooted in these imagined and half-submerged pasts. It’s the drama of what isn’t said, what doesn’t occur – but what might * The Telegraph *
After this, I’m going to have to read every damn thing he’s ever writ­ten. He really is that good * The Oldie *
The News from Dublin by Colm Tóibín — short stories to astonish and delight. Nine masterful tales chart unbreakable family connections — and complications — from Ireland to South America and Spain * Financial Times *
Tóibín is the consummate cartographer of the private self, summoning with restrained acuity (and a delicious streak of sly humour) the thoughts his characters struggle to find words for -- Clare Clark * Guardian *
There are few authors more attuned to human yearning * The i *
Tóibín is a subtle, intelligent and deeply felt writer * Guardian *
A master of understated emotions * Mail on Sunday *
Tóibín [is] a master of his art . . . exquisite * Los Angeles Times *
Tóibín has conducted an exhilarating masterclass in extract the maximum effect from the minimum of prose, with the leanest and cleanest narrative line . . . His gifts are so remarkable -- Robert McCrum * Independent *
Tóibín is a class act and his eye for the absurdities of Irish life keeps the pages turning * Mail on Sunday *
A writer evidently at the height of his powers * Sunday Independent *
Tóibín writes prose of a heart-breaking beauty * Daily Telegraph *
Colm Tóibín is a writer of extraordinary emotional clarity . . . Tóibín perfectly understands the instantaneous nature of the ideal short story; the sense that the pen is going straight into a major vein -- Kate Saunders * Literary Review *
It is in his emotional choreography that Tóibín shows himself to be an exceptional writer * Sunday Telegraph *
It’s truly remarkable that a writer of Tóibín’s great felicity, immense seriousness and general large awareness – a writer so naturally gifted as a novelist – can deliver short stories of such subtle empathy and brilliance. He’s dazzling -- Richard Ford
Lives lived far from home unfold with Tóibín’s trademark spare, piercing prose * i News ??????? *