The History of Things

Film director Tomas Dalton returns home to his North Inner City Dublin roots.

However, the country he has returned to, with its new-found affluence and glamour is unrecognisable from the one he left behind.

But this version of Ireland has yet to reach Bass Avenue, where the mischievous welcome he receives from the local mob of children quickly grows into something far more sinister.

Lost amongst the wreckage of a painful divorce, a chaotic film shoot and the manic advances of a fading Hollywood diva, Tomas is forced to protect the faded trophies of his life.

By any means necessary.

Praise for The History of Things:

'Best Irish novel of the year' Irish Independent

'Moncrieff takes the well-worn images of warm and sleepy Dublin, pulls a plastic bag over their head and executes them...' Evening Herald

'A telling portrait of smugness and disillusionment, of the festering underbelly of Celtic Tigerland' Sunday Independent