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John Wyse Jackson (Seán)

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Born, raised and educated in Ireland, I came to London in 1982 to begin working here with John Sandoe and Felicité Gwynne. Though my real name is John, I was told at once that another John in the shop would confuse everyone, and so I translated it into Irish and have been known as Seán ever since (though I use John Wyse Jackson for my desultory extra-curricular writings). A greedy reader, I normally find myself reading several books at the same time.  My particular interests are biography (particularly literary biography), poetry, fiction and humour, and little pleases me more than a good whodunnit - what in America is called a ‘mystery’.  As my young family grows up, I am being put through an extremely enjoyable course of children’s books.  It is probably also my fault that the bookshop stocks a surprising range of books on James Joyce and on other subjects relating to Ireland and the Irish.

Publications

bulletFlann O'Brien At War: Myles na gCopaleen 1940-1945 hbk £12.95hbk £70pbk £9.99
bulletPhenolphthalein: A Fictional Quest For The Eighth Plot pbk £4
bulletJames Joyce's Dubliners: An Illustrated Edition With Annotations pbk £12.99hbk £25
bulletJohn Stanislaus Joyce: The Voluminous Life And Genius Of James Joyce's Father pbk £8.99hbk £20
bulletThe Morality Of Things hbk £75
bulletJohn Lennon: We All Want To Change The World hbk £18
bulletIreland's Other Poetry: Anonymous To Zozimus hbk £20
bulletDublin pbk £6.99

Recent Reviews

bulletSidetracks: Explorations Of A Romantic Biographer   Richard Holmes pbk £7.99
bulletWhen We Were Orphans   Kazuo Ishiguro pbk £7.99
bulletAn Exaltation Of Larks: The Ultimate Edition   James Lipton pbk £11
bulletTell It To A Stranger   Elizabeth Berridge pbk £10
bulletCollected Poems For Children   Charles Causley, illustrated by John Lawrence
bulletNo Tears In Ireland   Sylvia Couturié
bulletAll Sorts   Christopher Reid, illustrated by Sara Fanelli pbk £7.50
bulletBensoniana & Cornishiana   pbk £9.50
bulletThe Bravest Ever Bear   Allan Ahlberg, illustrated by Paul Howard pbk £5.99
bulletAuberon Herbert: A Composite Portrait   John Jolliffe (ed)

 

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