J P Mallory: IN SEARCH OF THE IRISH DREAMTIME Z44 [2016] hardback Condition:Very Good Detective stories of the Twenties

Detective stories of the Twenties and Thirties have long been stereotyped as cosily conventional

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'The story is compelling but through Vasquez's vivid prose (rendered brilliantly into English by the award-winning translator Anne McLean) it also becomes haunting

J P Mallory: IN SEARCH OF THE IRISH DREAMTIME Z44 [2016] hardback Condition:Very Good Detective stories of the TwentiesFollowing his account of Irish origins as evidenced by archaeology, genetics and linguistics, J. P. Mallory returns to the subject to interrogate what he calls the `Irish Dreamtime': the native Irish retelling of their own origins, as related by medieval manuscripts. He attempts to explore the reality of this version of the earliest history of Ireland, which places apparently `mythological' events on a concrete timeline of invasions, colonizations and