'Dublin City-lit' is essential reading for city-break travellers and lovers of fresh and fascinating writing ? as a truly astonishing variety of writers - modern and classic, home-grown and visitors - evoke the myriad pleasures of this legendary writers' city. Over fifty dazzling writers and more than one hundred extracts bring Dubliners, famous, not so famous and famously fictional, to life. ? Anne Enright reveals the poetry in their soul ? Elizabeth Bowen stays at the Shelbourne ? Brian Lalor can't get enough of Bloomsday ? Joseph O'Connor explores the Dublin man's psyche ? Iris Murdoch evokes the Easter Rising ? Roddy Doyle pities the poor immigrant ? J. P. Donleavy shows us student Dublin ? Hugo Hamilton and a policeman who's seen it all ... and much, much more. city-pick Dublin is introduced by Orna Ross, well-known Dublin journalist and bestselling author of A Dance in Time, who offers her own fascinating perspective on the city and its writers as Dublin becomes a UNESCO World City of Literature in 2010. "Okay, London might have its share of good writers ... but in a straight contest - great writers per head of population - isn't Dublin the clear winner? Haven't we four Nobel Prizewinners (Shaw, Yeats, Becket and Heaney) out of only a million or so inhabitants? As well as the world's best novelist (Joyce) who should have got one too?" - Orna Ross, introduction to city-pick Dublin "The next in this excellent city-pick series, with some 100 plus extracts from a diverse collection of writers" - Sarah Broadhurst Paperback Preview, The Bookseller
