by Philip O Ceallaigh

Winner of the Rooney Prize and The Glen Dimplex New Writer Award for Fiction

Philip O Ceallaigh's first collection of stories, Notes From a Turkish Whorehouse, established him as one of the most vital and distinctive voices to have come on the scene in some time.  The Pleasant Light of Day confirms his enormous talent and presses into new thematic (and geographical) territory.  Here are more of what Anne Enright called his 'harsh and careful fables about men's failure to love women'; here too the 'control of tone, dialogue and narrative contour' that Michel Faber described as 'masterful'.  These new stories - set in eastern Europe, north Africa and Ireland - are at once visionary, hilarious and piercingly observant.  Whether he is imagining a father and son walking the streets of Cairo or concocting a hilarious parody of a certain wildly popular inspirational author from Brazil, Philip O Ceallaigh is a writer who demands to be read.

Published by Penguin at £12.99