Dooneen - Softcover

Ridgway, Keith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1804272450 ISBN 13: 9781804272459

Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2026

Synopsis

Bartholomew Port, known to all as Mew, steps into the bushes in a London park and steps out of the bushes in a Dublin one. Not only that – there are no cars; there are moving footpaths; there is no church; everything seems quite queer. Mew has arrived in a Dublin that is alive with song, with rumour, with ghosts, and with an unmistakable sense of insurgency. In this suspiciously timeless city that breathes an old revolutionary air, Mew fiercely misses his beloved Mootie, back home in London. An unravelling, an impossibility, a gathering of voices and a single dream, Dooneen is the layered, allusive and wildly original new novel from Keith Ridgway, ‘one of Ireland’s best writers, in a country with no shortage of them’ (The Times).

About this title

About the Author

Keith Ridgway is a Dubliner living in London. His novels include A Shock, which won the 2021 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction and was shortlisted for the Goldsmith’s Prize; Hawthorn & Child; and Animals. His first novel The Long Falling was filmed by Martin Provost as Oł Va La Nuit in 2011. He has been awarded the Prix Fémina Étranger and Premier Roman Étranger, the O Henry award and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Dooneen is published by Fitzcarraldo Editions and by New Directions.

From the Back Cover

A layered, allusive and wildly original new novel from Keith Ridgway, ‘one of Ireland's best writers, in a country with no shortage of them’ (The Times).

Edition details

• Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1804272450
• ISBN 13: 9781804272459
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 328