The Appleman and the Poet 2026 Swift’s Most Valuable Friend with

Swift’s Most Valuable Friend with that between Swift and Stella (Esther Johnson)

the second volume of a remarkable trilogy

Desmond Leslie (1921-2001)

chronicling his family's history over 300 years at Kilmacurragh in County Wicklow (now a celebrated arboretum in the care of the State)

Filled with laugh-out-loud anecdotes

The Appleman and the Poet 2026 Swift’s Most Valuable Friend withThe Appleman and the Poet, the fifth volume of Hubert Butlers essays, completes a thirty year odyssey embarked upon by The Lilliput Press in 1984. Our flagship author has finally come home, welcomed by Fintan OToole in his foreword: One of the great joys of these essays is the discovery of sentences as sharp and lithe as a Toledo rapier. Beginning with Russian Dispatches 19321946, Butler gives an evocative description from the viewpoint of a bourgeois