A brand new collection of essays exclusively commissioned by Notting Hill Editions. Iain Sinclair writes in his luminous introduction, the contributors try to explain their impulse to write 'by way of personal anecdote, revelation, or hopeful punt in the dark'.

In The Real People of Joyce's Ulysses, Dubliner and Joycean scholar Vivien Igoe leaves no stone uncovered in revealing the biographies of people that had previously been deemed to be fictional, and who had been accorded little attention as a result. The book provides a comprehensive A to Z of these real people with detailed information.

In three urgent pieces of non-fiction Anne Enright explores speech and silence in the lives of Irish women.

Queer Whispers: Gay and Lesbian Voices in Irish Fiction is the first comprehensive survey of gay and lesbian-themed fiction in Ireland, from the late 1970s until today.