While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home. 1997 by Robert McLiam Wilson (Author) 84 ratings See all formats and editions Hardcover £80.00 1 New from £80.00 Paperback £9.39 20 Used from £1.99 12 New from £8.69 1 Collectible from £4.20 Note: This item is eligible for FREE Click and Collect without a minimum order subject to availability. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fictionnovels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. The real love story in Eureka Street involves Belfastthe city’s soul and spirit, and its will to survive the worst it can do to itself. Chuckie falls in love with an American who is living in Belfast to escape the violence in her own land the best Jake can do is to get into a hilarious and remorseless war of insults with a beautiful but spitfire Republican whose Irish name, properly pronounced, sounds to him like someone choking. In the meantime, they try to carve out lives for themselves in the battlefield they call home. The harder they try to decipher it, the more it reflects the passions and paranoias that govern and divide them.Ĭhuckie and Jake are as mystified as everyone else. When a new work of graffiti begins to show up throughout the cityOTG”the locals are stumped.

Set in Belfast during the Troubles, Eureka Street takes us into the lives and families of Chuckie Lurgan and Jake Jackson, a Protestant and a Catholicunlikely pals and staunch allies in an uneasy time. ∺ll stories are love stories,” begins Eureka Street, Robert McLiam Wilson’s big-hearted and achingly funny novel. When your street address can either save your life or send it up the creek, there’s no telling what kind of daily challenges you’ll face in the era of the Northern Irish Troubles.

Eureka Street by Robert McLiam Wilson