Bishop's Delight - Softcover

Patrick McGinley is a very gifted man. --The New York Times

Patrick McGinley's gifts for resonant dialogue, sexual frictions, graphic violence, and peripeteia have been well noted for over three decades by readers and critics who relish the extravagances of getting lost beyond the pale. --Times Literary Supplement

An excellent choice for book clubs, Bishop's Delight is also a novel to share with the philosophers and literary lovers in your life. --Izzy Reads

Taoiseach Jim Maguire has disappeared under suspicious circumstances. Two rival journalists, Kevin Woody and Tony Sweetman, struggle to find the best story to tell about Maguire s vanishing act. As Woody and Sweetman navigate their turbulent personal lives while trying to keep the story of Maguire s disappearance alive for another day, it begins to emerge that there may have been more to the missing Taoiseach than his political career. What is the truth about Maguire, and what is the mysterious Bishop s Delight? Bishop s Delight shows novelist Patrick McGinley at his mesmerising best, showcasing his formidable literary style, his ever-present dark humour and his uncanny ability to explore uncomfortable truths.