Dear publisher, illustrious drinkers, eminent sheep and cows, most esteemed Little People, highly esteemed Irish, ultra-interesting readers and nice guys in general.
Here it is: Inspector Pedro and the search for the elusive green bone (A West Cork saga: the story of the elusive, mysterious, peculiar green bone of the Emerald Isle)
This book will tell you a story that beganna 84578 days ago on the beach of Allihies, West Corka and, passing through Sicily, finally returned to the present day among the sheep, the greenery and the beer of Ireland!
A love affair with Ireland, west cork in particular, has inspired Giovanni to write a fantasmagoria about the various wonders of west cork with a playful political twist that makes it very relevant to modern life .
The story is a kaleidoscope of comic characters, ludicrous situations with a more than a hint of Italian drama !
This book will have you memorized and intrigued until the very last page.
All in all this book is a celebration of Irelands traditions and incredible landscape, with much comic relief, hyperbole and an undercurrent of sober reckoning!
Ballymacruff is a 360-degree hymn to West Cork: landscapes, traditions, lifestyle, hospitality, nature, serenity... a world apart as the local slogan says.
Furthermore, the book deals with a topic that is affecting many nations all over the world: Globalization arm in arm with Bureaucracy.
If I may, Ballymacruff has a different take, something new.
A book full of humor and twists that involves the interaction and co operation of the humans, animals and the “magical beings who live" in West Cork.
We also include the novel use of an invented/distorted English and Latin for eg. astonishmenta, torturitia, here they arra…and several Italian phrases which are placed here and there throughout the pages of the book, as if to invite the reader to look a little further for their meaning, to give extra color to the whole tal.
All in all its a bit of a spy story, a bit of an adventure book, a bit of fantasy, a bit of horroritia and a lotta of madness!
We truly believe that this book is something different and new in the Irish publishing panorama.
Happy reading.
Aine Brosnan
Illustrious drinkers, eminent sheep and cows, most esteemed Little People, highly esteemed Irish, ultra-interesting readers and nice guys in general.
You who approach me,
free yourself from every passionanza
And, while reading, don't be scandalalized:
There is no illness or infection here.
It is true that there is little perfectamentia
You will learn, just for laughs:
It is better to write of laughta than of tears
and that smiling is, above all, a happy thing for the humananza.
Pantagruelically inspired by Francois Rabelais
1 Don Ciro “The Dogfather”: The beginnamenta, that is: what happened in Sicily at the beginning of this story
2 Inspector Pedro arrives to West Cork: R585 –Arrival in Bantry – Hey it’s Willie – Encounter with Knowlin
3 At Lord Pitton’s castella: The appearanciation of Pittons, Frudge, Donovan and Niamh – And Turlough too!
4 A vortex of facta: Pedro and Willie at the Beicin Walk – Cemeterium tour – Repair Cafè and Bantry market – Encounterment with Niamh and Frudge – Pittons asks about Pedro
5 The bloodcurdling appearition on the scene of Philippippus Bruscelloni of the Traditionis Abolitium Immediatibus (TAI) and the other half of the bad apple, Seamus O’Shaughnessy of the Traditionis Conservarum Dovemus (TCD): Burocratia Tremendis – First lesson of Insheepmentation : the Persuasionibus
6 Towards the end of the world with Frudge: Correct Use of Milking Gloves and other minchiate – The student army - Adventures with David and Lisa -Scraíochting at Mary’s
7 A very strange speech: Pittons meets with Brucs and O’Shaunessy - Second lesson of Insheeppment: Cretinatio docet
8 Along the Wild Atlantic Way: With the Paleoseshanlogbrosnan at Drombeg – Delirium on the WAW
9 This vicissitude needs a clarification: Note the skill of the author of this story, as he summarises the events that have happened so far, to both the inattentive and attentive readers, in order that they do not succumb to confusion, which could be dangerous for the rest of the plot. And let us keep in mind the characters, places and things narrated so far. It takes a solitary breath to lose the thread: confusatia always in ambusha est!
10 Halloween: booo reunion in West Corka! Various monstrosities and extensive horrors
11 A meeting of the Good People: And 1, and 2, and 1,2 3 owwwrrrr!
12 Extrasmart chapter in which very interesting things happen with excellent narration by the author of this extremely chilling story Don Ciro rightly exclaims: Minchia, what a blow! – Brucs and O'Shaughnessy rally – The Bufaletti’s and the tractor parade – The Virus of Sheepititus 91 enters the scene – A bad Christmas
13 Knowlin's Ultra-Striking Exploits aboard the Southern Star Ship Enterprise (SSSE) Featuring Gennaro Esposito and Chamomille (Celestial Star's weekly readership troupe)
14 Don Ciro arrives to Westa Corka!: Sicilian guests in the castella, interesting astonisattum, variuos disbeliefia and fascinationing between Don Ciro and Lord Pittons
15 San Patrizio: Paddy and the Irish cannoli!
16 Nature cuppa: A very special day – Pittons writes two letters at the same time, but immediately afterwards Turlough breaks a window of the castle, giving himself a very painful bump.
17 The Snifferousity: How Frudge allowed Pedro to receive a medal – The fillingatio of the sniffeurosity drawers – Genealogy of Lord Jeremy Pittons
18 Ballymacruff: an adventure beyond the beyonds!
19 Le Grand Cirque du Bantry: La meraville!
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