James Yorkston: The Book of the Gaels [2022] paperback Condition:New This thoughtful

This thoughtful

In this first full history of around-the-world travel

with precisely observed characterisation

I won't describe what I look like

migrants and known vagrants

James Yorkston: The Book of the Gaels [2022] paperback Condition:New This thoughtfulRural West Cork, Ireland. Two Kids, Joseph and Paul, and their struggling, poet father, Fraser, are battling grief and poverty. When a letter arrives with a summons to Dublin and the promise of publication, it offers a chink of light the hope of rescue. But Dublin is a long, wet and hungry way from West Cork in the mid 70s, especially when they have no money just the clothes they stand up in and an old, battered suitcase. So begins an almost anti