{"product_id":"monaghan","title":"Monaghan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA beautifully crafted literary novel about how art and war intersect with the lives of an architect, an investment banker and a sniper\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Beautiful and complex’ Annie Proulx\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMoving from West Belfast and County Monaghan to the streets of San Francisco, Timothy O’Grady’s exhilarating new novel is an epic portrait of art and war, authenticity and selling out, told through the lives of three men.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRonan Treanor, Monaghan native and teller of this tale, is a celebrated theorist of postmodern architecture in New York. Paul Crane, single son of a hotel maid in Indiana, turns his mathematical gift into a multimillion-dollar career as an investment banker. And the mysterious Ryan, who drew as a boy in besieged West Belfast, but was swept up in the war against the British and lived a decade of extreme and escalating violence as a sniper. Through him, the war in Ireland and its psychic legacy are brought into close focus in a way rarely seen in contemporary fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTheir lives merge and conflict, rise and fall, as one man becomes the undoing of the next. Hauntingly beautiful, lyrical and profound, this is a novel about love and destruction, and what happens when you cannot escape your past.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFeaturing drawings by Anthony Lott\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e‘A beautiful and complex novel written with a very high degree of literary skill. Almost every page offers pleasures to the connoisseur of modern literature’ \u003cb\u003eAnnie Proulx\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e‘A bigger, broader, polyphonic novel, told through the stories of a number of men whose lives are strangely connected to each other and to the conflict in Northern Ireland’ \u003cb\u003eIan Sansom, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTLS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e‘A beautiful novel, sweeping in scope yet deeply intimate’ \u003cb\u003eLouise Kennedy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e‘O’Grady strikes a beautiful note with this novel, its elegant sentences sweeping out across time to provide a memorable portrait of the Irish strife of the 1980s’ \u003cb\u003eKevin Barry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003ePAPERBACK OUT JUNE 2026. AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER NOW\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eEBOOK AVAILABLE \u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\" title=\"Timothy O'Grady Monaghan\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Monaghan-Timothy-OGrady-ebook\/dp\/B0FTGDWB7L\/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eHERE\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003eHardback: 304pp\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003ePublished: Wilton Square (November 2025)\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003eISBN: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003e9781789651867 \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003ePaperback: 304pp\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003ePublished: Wilton Square (June 2026)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003eISBN: \u003cspan\u003e9781806770090 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wilton Square","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":58627801842048,"sku":null,"price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":58627801874816,"sku":null,"price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1271\/4023\/files\/9781806770090.jpg?v=1785754355","url":"https:\/\/www.eye-books.com\/products\/monaghan","provider":"Eye Books Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}