'Exhilarating and highly entertaining ... colourful, scabrous, humorous and laced with arcane literary knowledge' Sunday Times

'The funniest novel I've read since January ... unashamedly navel-gazing, slyly cosmopolitan and an absolute blast' Daily Mail

'Doyle's storytelling is compelling and engaging, suffused with wit, honesty and emotional intelligence' Irish Times

In my case, reading has always served a dual purpose. In a positive sense, it offers sustenance, enlightenment, the bliss of fascination. In a negative sense, it is a means of withdrawal, of inhabiting a reality quarantined from one that often comes across as painful, alarming or downright distasteful. In the former sense, reading is like food; in the latter, it is like drugs or alcohol.

In Autobibliography, Rob Doyle recounts a year spent rereading fifty-two books - from the Dhammapada and Marcus Aurelius, via The Tibetan Book of the Dead and La Rochefoucauld, to Robert Bolano and Svetlana Alexievich - as well as the memories they trigger and the reverberations they create. It is a record of a year in reading, and of a lifetime of books.

Provocative, intelligent and funny, it is a brilliant introduction to a personal canon by one of the most original and exciting writers around. It is a book about books, a book about reading, and a book about a writer. It is an autobibliography.

Praise for Threshold

'Extraordinary, quite unlike anything I've read before' John Boyne