Breakfast on Pluto

A new edition of this Booker-shortlisted novel for the release of Neil Jordan's film adaptation, staring Liam Neeson and Stephen Rea

Set in Ireland in the1970s, Breakfast on Pluto follows the exploits of Patrick "P***y" Braden, an endearing but deceptively tough young man. Abandoned as a baby in his small Irish hometown and aware from a very early age that he is different, Patrick survives this harsh environment with the aid of his wit, charm and a sweet refusal to let anyone or anything change who he is.

This is a surreal and magical tale, a funny, moving and poignant rites of passage novel. It is also a vivid and unsettling comment on the human price paid in the cultural and political climate of Ireland at that time.

'Wild, hilarious, merciless and fiendishly clever' - Independent on Sunday

'He is the fortunate possessor of a savage and unfettered imagination; his books ... dissect life's miseries with a gleaming comedic scalpel' - The Times

'It finds humour in places that other writers are afraid to look for it' - Sunday Telegraph

'This is a savagely funny and authentically tragic novel of an Ireland in unhappy transition and beneath McCabe's perfectly delivered black comedy lies an angry heart' - GQ