Remarkable these 12 haunting, curious tales have settings as diverse as coastal Ireland, post-Wall Berlin and Abu Dhabi. -- Alexander Wells * ExBerliner * Adrian Duncans new collection consolidates his reputation as one of the most captivating and distinctive voices in contemporary Irish writing. -- Michael Cronin * Irish Times * The overarching connection between these austerely executed but richly imagined narratives has to do with the before and after of aspiration and disappointment, hope versus despair. -- Tom Treacy * Totally Dublin * Recalling James Joyces Dubliners, and the punctuation of tough, ordinary, quotidian lives with occasional bursts of illumination and epiphany, Midfield Dynamo is beautiful in its sparse, humorous prose, born of a gruff, masculine tradition of Irish literature. -- Eva Wall * Extra.ie * Exhilarating These stories seek and discover scenes of beauty in the process permitting notes of lyricism to earn their place in overlooked and distinctly unglamorous contexts, to deeply moving effect in Midfield Dynamo, as in Duncans novels, the structures of life must not only be built but endlessly renewed and maintained and this process, this world of construction, is the point of it all, and the reward. -- Neil Hegarty * Dublin Review of Books * There's a real artist at work here
PAT CARTY, HOT PRESS A very impressive book of short stories which shine a light on the strangeness and absurdities of the modern world
MATTHEW GEDEN, IRISH EXAMINER Recommended reading on RTÉ Today with Maura and Dáithí These understated and immensely compassionate stories make a gem of a collection
ANNE CUNNINGHAM, MEATH CHRONICLE Lyrical, bizarre and mystifying will remind readers of Claire Keegans short stories, mixed with a little splash of Kevin Barrys style
LITVOX One of the most interesting Irish writers at work today
NIAMH DONNELLY, IRISH INDEPENDENT
