Scotus Press have published a new novel In the Foul Rag-and-Bone Shop by Jack Harte, as well as a new edition of his acclaimed second novel Reflections in a Tar-Barrel. Both are available for purchase from scotuspress.com

In the Foul Rag-and-Bone Shop

This playfully philosophical novel tackles the major issues of our time: money, power, identity, celebrity, art, the nature of civilisation. With a galaxy of quirky characters, the plot twists and turns unpredictably like a beached eel, always with ironic overtones.

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Reflections in a Tar-Barrel (2023 edition)

Set in the Mid-Seventies, this novel explores the world through the eyes of an eccentric young man, Lofty, and follows his journey of exploration from the West of Ireland to Paris and Lourdes. The relationship he strikes up with a sex worker on the streets of Paris leads back to the woman-starved West of Ireland where Lofty now combines the roles of hawker in religious goods and keeper of a mobile brothel. Events accelerate with accumulating menace and hurtle towards disaster.

This new edition of Jack Harte's acclaimed novel was published in 2023.

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Jack Harte's plays and interviews on YouTube

Interview with Jack Harte for EFACIS – European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies

Blog - Follow Jack Harte's blog here