In one hundred short essays David Collard navigates James Joyce’s astonishing cultural legacy in the century since the publication of Ulysses in 1922.

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Read an excerpt on RTÉ. 

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Notices

‘Frequently bloody hilarious […] I cannot recommend this delightful, unusual work highly enough. Bravissimo.’                                (Anne Cunningham, Meath Chronicle)

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'Multiple Joyce has shot to the top of my favourite Joycean books […] absorbing, upfront, funny, erudite, and charming.’     (Nuala O’Connor, Books, Ireland)

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This year being the centenary of the publication of Ulysses, there has been a flurry of new books and republications […] But to my mind David Collard’s Multiple Joyce is the most joyful and the most Joycean […] There is a real pleasure in reading a book about Joyce that actually makes you laugh.  (Stuart Kelly, The Spectator)

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‘How heartening is Collard’s confident and spirited love of literature—of reading, of books!’ 
                                  (Barry Spurr, Quadrant)

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‘What more could you possibly want to read on June 16th, Bloomsday, apart from the novel itself?’  

                                   (Richard Clegg, Bookmunch)

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‘Multiple Joyce is a tour de force of curiosity.’

                                   (Melissa McCarthy, author)

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‘… brilliantly idiosyncratic and richly digressive…’         

                                    (Jonathan Gibbs, author)

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‘… it fizzes and astonishes at every turn…’

                                    (John Mitchinson, publisher)

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Watch a five star review by American blogger Chris Via:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HivwpWEm8Ms

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pub date: 16th June 2022
$21.95 | 378 pages
isbn: 978-1-952386-32-9 (paperback)
Cover design by Anne Marie Hantho