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IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2009
HPL Reading List
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Abstinence teacher / Perrota, Tom
Adam Haberberg / Reza, Yasmina
After dark / Murakami, Haruki
Afterwards / Seiffert, Rachel
Air we breathe / Barrett, Andrea
All saints / Callanan, Liam
All whom I have loved / Appelfeld, Aharon
Allah is not obliged / Kourouma, Ahmadou
Almost moon / Sebold, Alice
American youth / LaMarche, Phil
Among other things, I've taken up smoking / Sweeney, Aoibheann
Angelica / Phillips, Arthur
Anxious pleasures: a novel after Kafka / Olsen, Lance
April in Paris / Wallner, Michael
Archivist's story / Holland, Travis
Arlington Park / Cusk, Rachel
Arsonist's guide to writers' homes in New England / Clarke, Brock
Ascent / Mercurio, Jed
Assassin's song / Vassanji, M. G.
Auralia's colors / Overstreet, Jeffrey
Away / Bloom, Amy
Bang bang / Hoffman, Lynn
Bastard of Istanbul / Shefak, Elif
Bearing the body / Havazelet, Ehud
Beautiful miscellaneous / Smith, Dominic
Because a fire was in my head / Stegner, Lynn
Because the rain / Buckman, Daniel
Before / Spanidou, Irini
Bestiary / Christopher, Nicholas
Big girls / Moore, Susanna
Bird of another heaven / Houston, James D.
Bitter sweets / Farooki, Roopa
Black & white / Shapiro, Dani
Blood of flowers / Amirrezvani, Anita
Blood spilt / Larsson, Asa
Bluebird; or the invention of happiness / Kohler, Sheila
Book of air and shadows / Gruber, Michael
Boomsday / Buckley, Christopher
Brasyl / McDonald, Ian
Breathing underwater / Vickers, Lu
Bridge of sighs / Russo, Richard
Brief wonderous life of Oscar Wao / Diaz, Junot
Broken colors / Zackheim, Michele
By George / Stace, Wesley
Call me by your name / Aciman, Andre
Camel bookmobile / Hamilton, Masha
Canaan / McCaig, Donald
Caspian rain / Nahai, Gina B.
Castle in the forest / Mailer, Norman
Cataloochee / Caldwell, Wayne
Channeling Mark Twain / Muske-Dukes, Carol
Charity girl / Lowenthal, Michael
Chess machine / Lohr, Robert
Cion / Mda, Zakes
Cloud of unknowing / Cook, Thomas H.
Coal black horse / Olmstead, Robert
Commodore Perry's minstrel show / Wiley, Richard
Communist's daughter / Bock, Dennis
Consequences / Lively, Penelope
Cries in the drizzle / Yu Hua
Crossing the Sierra de Gredos / Handke, Peter
Dancing to Almendra / Montero, Mayra
Dark reflections / Delany, Samuel R.
Day at the beach / Schulman, Helen
Death of a murderer / Thomson, Rupert
Delirium / Restrepo, Laura
Descendants / Hemmings, Kaui Hart
Devotion / Norman, Howard
Diagnosis of love / Leffler, Maggie
Divisadero / Ondaatje, Michael
Dog war / Winkler, Anthony C.
Double bind / Bohajalian, Chris
Down river / Hart, John
End of the alphabet / Richardson, C. S.
Engleby / Faulks, Sebastian
Envious moon / Greene, Thomas Christopher
Extra large medium / Slavin, Helen
Fabric of night / Peters, Christoph
Fall of Troy / Ackroyd, Peter
Falling man / DeLillo, Dan
Far country / Mason, Daniel
Farther shore / Eck, Matthew
Fellow travelers / Mallon, Thomas
Fieldwork / Berlinski, Mischa
Finn / Clinch, Joe
Fire Wife / Choong, Tinling
Five skies / Carlson, Ron
Five-forty-five to Cannes / Holthe, Tess Uriza
Flower children / Swann, Maxine
Folded world / Gaige, Amity
Foreigners / Phillips, Caryl
Forgery / Murray, Sabina
Free food for millionaires / Lee, Min Jin
Free life / Ha Jin
Fruit of the lemon / Levy, Andrea
Garden of Ruth / Etzioni-Halevy, Eva
Gathering / Enright, Anne
Generation loss / Hand, Elizabeth
Gentle axe / Morris, R.N.
Gentlemen of the road / Chabon, Michael
Ghostwalk / Stott, Rebecca
Gifted / Lalwani, Nikita
Girl with the golden shoes / Channer, Colin
God is dead / Currie, Ron
God of animals / Kyle, Aryn
God of luck / McCunn, Ruthanne Lum
God of spring / Edge, Arabella
Gravedigger's daughter / Oates, Joyce Carol
Guantanamo / Dieckmann, Dorothea
Guardians / Castillo, Ana
Gum thief / Coupland, Douglas
Handbook to luck / Garcia, Cristina
Hartsburg, USA / Mizner, David
Hatred for tulips / Lourie, Richard
Headmaster ritual / Antrim, Taylor
Helpless / Gowdy, Barbara
Heyday / Andersen, Kurt
Hotel de Dream: a New York novel / White, Edmund
If minds had toes / Eyre, Lucy
If today be sweet / Umrigar, Thrity
IHOP papers / Liebegott, Ali
Imposture / Markovits, Benjamin
In the country of men / Matar, Hisham
In the Tenth House / Dietz, Laura
Indian clerk / Leavitt, David
Inglorious / Kavenna, Joanna
Inheritance / Danford, Natalie
Innocent traitor: a novel of Lady Jane Grey / Weir, Alison
Innocents / Seebohm, Caroline
Insufficiency of maps / Pierce, Nora
Intimate relations with strangers / Bernard, David Valentine
Jake fades: a novel of impermanence / Guy, David
Jamestown / Sharpe, Matthew
Keeping the house / Baker, Ellen
King of colored town / Wimberley, Darryl
Kockroach / Knox, Tyler
Landsman / Melman, Peter Charles
Last empress / Min, Anchee
Last one in / Kulish, Nicholas
Last summer of the world / Mitchell, Emily
Late Hector Kipling / Thewlis, David
Laura Warholic; or, the sexual intellectual / Theroux, Alexander
Let the Northern Lights erase your name / Vida, Vendela
Letter from Point Clear / McFarland, Dennis
Lies / Heriz, Enrique de
Life you longed for / Fischer, Maribeth
Light / Elphinstone, Margaret
Like son / Lemus, Felicia Luna
Like trees, walking / Howard, Ravi
Lions at Lamb House / Yoder, Edwin M. Jr.
Little stalker / Belle, Jennifer
Lost City Radio / Alarcon, Daniel
Love life / Kluun
Loving Frank / Horan, Nancy
Man gone down / Thomas, Michael
Mapmaker's opera / Gonzalez, Bea
Mathematics of love / Darwin, Emma
Matters of honor / Begley, Louis
Maynard & Jennica / Delson, Rudolph
Maytrees / Dillard, Annie
Measuring time / Habila, Helon
Meat and spirit plan / Suterstrom, Selah
Ministry of Culture / Mullaney, James P.
Ministry of Special Cases / Englander, Nathan
Moments lost: a midwest pilgrim's progress / Olds, Bruce
MVP / Boice, James
My dreams out in the street / Addonizio, Kim
My Holocaust / Reich, Tova
My summer of southern discomfort / Gayle, Stephanie
Nature of monsters / Clarke, Clare
New England white / Carter, Stephen L.
New moon's arms / Hopkinson, Nalo
Night birds / Maltman, Thomas
Night climbers / Stourton, Ivo
Nine / Stasuik, Andrzej
North River / Hamill, Pete
Of song and water / Coulson, Joseph
Office of desire / Moody, Martha
On Chesil Beach / McEwan, Ian
Once in a promised land / Halaby, Laila
Opposite house / Oyeyemi, Helen
Origin / Abu-Jaber, Diana
Orpheus lost / Hospital, Janette, Turner
Other side of you / Vickers, Salley
Our American king / Martin, David Lozell
Overture / Goldstein, Yael
Oystercatchers / Fletcher, Susan
Palestinian lover / Nassib, Selim
Paula Spencer / Doyle, Roddy
Peculiar grace / Lent, Jeffrey
Penny tree / Kennedy, Holly
Peony in love / See, Lisa
Pesthouse / Crace, Jim
Petropolis / Ulinich, Anya
Pigeon and a boy / Shalev, Meir
Pilgrims upon the earth / Land, Brad
Polish woman / Mekler, Eva
Portrait of an unknown woman / Bennett, Vanora
Posh / Jackson, Lucy
Post-birthday world / Shriver, Lionel
Price of silence / Trinchieri, Camilla
Quiet girl / Hoeg, Peter
Radiant days / FitzGerald, Michael A.
Rant: the oral biography of Buster Casey / Palahniuk, Chuck
Ravel / Echenoz, Jean
Raw shark texts / Hall, Steven
Red River / Tademy, Lalita
Red rover / McNamer, Deirdre
Redemption falls / O'Connor, Joseph
Reluctant fundamentalist / Hamid, Mohsin
Remainder / McCarthy, Tom
Rest of her life / Moriarty, Laura
Returning to Earth / Harrison, Jim
Rhythm of the road / Hall, Albyn Leah
River wife / Agee, Jonis
Rope walk / Brown, Carrie
Rules for saying goodbye / Taylor, Katherine
Run / Patchett, Ann
Sacred games / Chandra, Vikram
Saffron kitchen / Crowther, Yasmin
Salmon fishing in the Yemen / Torday, Paul
Samedi the deafness / Bail, Jesse
Savage garden / Mills, Mark
Savior / Drucker, Eugene
Secret / Gill, Elizabeth
Seizure / Wagner, Erica
Self storage / Brandeis, Gayle
Septembers of Shiraz / Sofer, Dalia
Set me free / Beverly-Whittemore, Miranda
Shadow catcher / Wiggins, Marianne
Signed, Mata Hari / Murphy, Yannick
Sirens of Baghdad / Khadra, Yasmina
Sister mine / O'Dell, Tawnie
Sister: a novel of Emily Dickinson / Kaufman, Paola
Skylark farm / Arslan, Antonia
Skylight confessions / Hoffman, Alice
Snow, ashes / Hagy, Alyson
Solitude of Thomas Cave / Harding, Georgina
Someone knows my name / Hill, Lawrence
Song before it is sung / Cartwright, Justin
Sons and other flammable objects / Khakpour, Porochista
Souls of angels / Eidson, Thomas
Spanish bow / Romano-Lax, Andromeda
Spook country / Gibson, William
Still water saints / Espinoza, Alex
Story of the cannibal woman / Conde, Maryse
Street of a thousand blossoms / Tsukiyama, Gail
Summer of light / Cramer, W. Dale
Summer people / Groh, Brian
Sunless / Donovan, Gerard
Surveillance / Raban, Jonathan
Tales from the town of widows / Canon, James
Tallgrass / Dallas, Sandra
Their dogs came with them / Viramontes, Helena Maria
Them / McCall, Nathan
Then we came to the end / Ferris, Joshua
Theory of clouds / Audeguy, Stephane
This time of dying / James, Reina
Thousand splendid suns / Hosseini, Khaled
Time it takes to fall / Dean, Margaret Lazarus
Tipperary / Delany, Frank
Tokyo Year Zero / Peace, David
Tom Bedlam / Hagen, George
Tomorrow / Swift, Graham
Traveler / McLarty, Ron
Travels in the scriptorium / Austen, Paul
Tree of smoke / Johnson, Denis
Trespass / St Martin, Valerie
Unnatural history of Cypress Parish / Blackwell, Elise
Up high in trees / Brinkman, Kiara
Used world / Kimmel, Haven
Virgin of flames / Abani, Chris
Virgin's guide to Mexico / Martin, Eric B.
Visible world / Slouka, Mark
Voices / Indridason, Arnaldur
Water cure / Everett, Percival
We Go Liquid / Tebordo, Christian
Welsh girl / Davies, Peter Ho
What you have left / Allison, Will
When the grey beetles took over Baghdad / Yahia, Mona
When the light goes / McMurtry, Larry
When we get there / Seliy, Shauna
When we were bad / Mendelson, Charlotte
Wind from the east / Grandes, Almudena
Winterton Blue / Azzopardi, Trezza
Witch of Portobello / Coelho, Paulo
Year of endless sorrows / Rapp, Adam
Yellowcake / Crimmins, Ann
Yiddish policemen's union / Chabon, Michael
You don't love me yet / Lethem, Jonathan
Zoli / McCann, Colum
Zugzwang / Bennett, Ronan
Adam Haberberg / Reza, Yasmina
After dark / Murakami, Haruki
Afterwards / Seiffert, Rachel
Air we breathe / Barrett, Andrea
All saints / Callanan, Liam
All whom I have loved / Appelfeld, Aharon
Allah is not obliged / Kourouma, Ahmadou
Almost moon / Sebold, Alice
American youth / LaMarche, Phil
Among other things, I've taken up smoking / Sweeney, Aoibheann
Angelica / Phillips, Arthur
Anxious pleasures: a novel after Kafka / Olsen, Lance
April in Paris / Wallner, Michael
Archivist's story / Holland, Travis
Arlington Park / Cusk, Rachel
Arsonist's guide to writers' homes in New England / Clarke, Brock
Ascent / Mercurio, Jed
Assassin's song / Vassanji, M. G.
Auralia's colors / Overstreet, Jeffrey
Away / Bloom, Amy
Bang bang / Hoffman, Lynn
Bastard of Istanbul / Shefak, Elif
Bearing the body / Havazelet, Ehud
Beautiful miscellaneous / Smith, Dominic
Because a fire was in my head / Stegner, Lynn
Because the rain / Buckman, Daniel
Before / Spanidou, Irini
Bestiary / Christopher, Nicholas
Big girls / Moore, Susanna
Bird of another heaven / Houston, James D.
Bitter sweets / Farooki, Roopa
Black & white / Shapiro, Dani
Blood of flowers / Amirrezvani, Anita
Blood spilt / Larsson, Asa
Bluebird; or the invention of happiness / Kohler, Sheila
Book of air and shadows / Gruber, Michael
Boomsday / Buckley, Christopher
Brasyl / McDonald, Ian
Breathing underwater / Vickers, Lu
Bridge of sighs / Russo, Richard
Brief wonderous life of Oscar Wao / Diaz, Junot
Broken colors / Zackheim, Michele
By George / Stace, Wesley
Call me by your name / Aciman, Andre
Camel bookmobile / Hamilton, Masha
Canaan / McCaig, Donald
Caspian rain / Nahai, Gina B.
Castle in the forest / Mailer, Norman
Cataloochee / Caldwell, Wayne
Channeling Mark Twain / Muske-Dukes, Carol
Charity girl / Lowenthal, Michael
Chess machine / Lohr, Robert
Cion / Mda, Zakes
Cloud of unknowing / Cook, Thomas H.
Coal black horse / Olmstead, Robert
Commodore Perry's minstrel show / Wiley, Richard
Communist's daughter / Bock, Dennis
Consequences / Lively, Penelope
Cries in the drizzle / Yu Hua
Crossing the Sierra de Gredos / Handke, Peter
Dancing to Almendra / Montero, Mayra
Dark reflections / Delany, Samuel R.
Day at the beach / Schulman, Helen
Death of a murderer / Thomson, Rupert
Delirium / Restrepo, Laura
Descendants / Hemmings, Kaui Hart
Devotion / Norman, Howard
Diagnosis of love / Leffler, Maggie
Divisadero / Ondaatje, Michael
Dog war / Winkler, Anthony C.
Double bind / Bohajalian, Chris
Down river / Hart, John
End of the alphabet / Richardson, C. S.
Engleby / Faulks, Sebastian
Envious moon / Greene, Thomas Christopher
Extra large medium / Slavin, Helen
Fabric of night / Peters, Christoph
Fall of Troy / Ackroyd, Peter
Falling man / DeLillo, Dan
Far country / Mason, Daniel
Farther shore / Eck, Matthew
Fellow travelers / Mallon, Thomas
Fieldwork / Berlinski, Mischa
Finn / Clinch, Joe
Fire Wife / Choong, Tinling
Five skies / Carlson, Ron
Five-forty-five to Cannes / Holthe, Tess Uriza
Flower children / Swann, Maxine
Folded world / Gaige, Amity
Foreigners / Phillips, Caryl
Forgery / Murray, Sabina
Free food for millionaires / Lee, Min Jin
Free life / Ha Jin
Fruit of the lemon / Levy, Andrea
Garden of Ruth / Etzioni-Halevy, Eva
Gathering / Enright, Anne
Generation loss / Hand, Elizabeth
Gentle axe / Morris, R.N.
Gentlemen of the road / Chabon, Michael
Ghostwalk / Stott, Rebecca
Gifted / Lalwani, Nikita
Girl with the golden shoes / Channer, Colin
God is dead / Currie, Ron
God of animals / Kyle, Aryn
God of luck / McCunn, Ruthanne Lum
God of spring / Edge, Arabella
Gravedigger's daughter / Oates, Joyce Carol
Guantanamo / Dieckmann, Dorothea
Guardians / Castillo, Ana
Gum thief / Coupland, Douglas
Handbook to luck / Garcia, Cristina
Hartsburg, USA / Mizner, David
Hatred for tulips / Lourie, Richard
Headmaster ritual / Antrim, Taylor
Helpless / Gowdy, Barbara
Heyday / Andersen, Kurt
Hotel de Dream: a New York novel / White, Edmund
If minds had toes / Eyre, Lucy
If today be sweet / Umrigar, Thrity
IHOP papers / Liebegott, Ali
Imposture / Markovits, Benjamin
In the country of men / Matar, Hisham
In the Tenth House / Dietz, Laura
Indian clerk / Leavitt, David
Inglorious / Kavenna, Joanna
Inheritance / Danford, Natalie
Innocent traitor: a novel of Lady Jane Grey / Weir, Alison
Innocents / Seebohm, Caroline
Insufficiency of maps / Pierce, Nora
Intimate relations with strangers / Bernard, David Valentine
Jake fades: a novel of impermanence / Guy, David
Jamestown / Sharpe, Matthew
Keeping the house / Baker, Ellen
King of colored town / Wimberley, Darryl
Kockroach / Knox, Tyler
Landsman / Melman, Peter Charles
Last empress / Min, Anchee
Last one in / Kulish, Nicholas
Last summer of the world / Mitchell, Emily
Late Hector Kipling / Thewlis, David
Laura Warholic; or, the sexual intellectual / Theroux, Alexander
Let the Northern Lights erase your name / Vida, Vendela
Letter from Point Clear / McFarland, Dennis
Lies / Heriz, Enrique de
Life you longed for / Fischer, Maribeth
Light / Elphinstone, Margaret
Like son / Lemus, Felicia Luna
Like trees, walking / Howard, Ravi
Lions at Lamb House / Yoder, Edwin M. Jr.
Little stalker / Belle, Jennifer
Lost City Radio / Alarcon, Daniel
Love life / Kluun
Loving Frank / Horan, Nancy
Man gone down / Thomas, Michael
Mapmaker's opera / Gonzalez, Bea
Mathematics of love / Darwin, Emma
Matters of honor / Begley, Louis
Maynard & Jennica / Delson, Rudolph
Maytrees / Dillard, Annie
Measuring time / Habila, Helon
Meat and spirit plan / Suterstrom, Selah
Ministry of Culture / Mullaney, James P.
Ministry of Special Cases / Englander, Nathan
Moments lost: a midwest pilgrim's progress / Olds, Bruce
MVP / Boice, James
My dreams out in the street / Addonizio, Kim
My Holocaust / Reich, Tova
My summer of southern discomfort / Gayle, Stephanie
Nature of monsters / Clarke, Clare
New England white / Carter, Stephen L.
New moon's arms / Hopkinson, Nalo
Night birds / Maltman, Thomas
Night climbers / Stourton, Ivo
Nine / Stasuik, Andrzej
North River / Hamill, Pete
Of song and water / Coulson, Joseph
Office of desire / Moody, Martha
On Chesil Beach / McEwan, Ian
Once in a promised land / Halaby, Laila
Opposite house / Oyeyemi, Helen
Origin / Abu-Jaber, Diana
Orpheus lost / Hospital, Janette, Turner
Other side of you / Vickers, Salley
Our American king / Martin, David Lozell
Overture / Goldstein, Yael
Oystercatchers / Fletcher, Susan
Palestinian lover / Nassib, Selim
Paula Spencer / Doyle, Roddy
Peculiar grace / Lent, Jeffrey
Penny tree / Kennedy, Holly
Peony in love / See, Lisa
Pesthouse / Crace, Jim
Petropolis / Ulinich, Anya
Pigeon and a boy / Shalev, Meir
Pilgrims upon the earth / Land, Brad
Polish woman / Mekler, Eva
Portrait of an unknown woman / Bennett, Vanora
Posh / Jackson, Lucy
Post-birthday world / Shriver, Lionel
Price of silence / Trinchieri, Camilla
Quiet girl / Hoeg, Peter
Radiant days / FitzGerald, Michael A.
Rant: the oral biography of Buster Casey / Palahniuk, Chuck
Ravel / Echenoz, Jean
Raw shark texts / Hall, Steven
Red River / Tademy, Lalita
Red rover / McNamer, Deirdre
Redemption falls / O'Connor, Joseph
Reluctant fundamentalist / Hamid, Mohsin
Remainder / McCarthy, Tom
Rest of her life / Moriarty, Laura
Returning to Earth / Harrison, Jim
Rhythm of the road / Hall, Albyn Leah
River wife / Agee, Jonis
Rope walk / Brown, Carrie
Rules for saying goodbye / Taylor, Katherine
Run / Patchett, Ann
Sacred games / Chandra, Vikram
Saffron kitchen / Crowther, Yasmin
Salmon fishing in the Yemen / Torday, Paul
Samedi the deafness / Bail, Jesse
Savage garden / Mills, Mark
Savior / Drucker, Eugene
Secret / Gill, Elizabeth
Seizure / Wagner, Erica
Self storage / Brandeis, Gayle
Septembers of Shiraz / Sofer, Dalia
Set me free / Beverly-Whittemore, Miranda
Shadow catcher / Wiggins, Marianne
Signed, Mata Hari / Murphy, Yannick
Sirens of Baghdad / Khadra, Yasmina
Sister mine / O'Dell, Tawnie
Sister: a novel of Emily Dickinson / Kaufman, Paola
Skylark farm / Arslan, Antonia
Skylight confessions / Hoffman, Alice
Snow, ashes / Hagy, Alyson
Solitude of Thomas Cave / Harding, Georgina
Someone knows my name / Hill, Lawrence
Song before it is sung / Cartwright, Justin
Sons and other flammable objects / Khakpour, Porochista
Souls of angels / Eidson, Thomas
Spanish bow / Romano-Lax, Andromeda
Spook country / Gibson, William
Still water saints / Espinoza, Alex
Story of the cannibal woman / Conde, Maryse
Street of a thousand blossoms / Tsukiyama, Gail
Summer of light / Cramer, W. Dale
Summer people / Groh, Brian
Sunless / Donovan, Gerard
Surveillance / Raban, Jonathan
Tales from the town of widows / Canon, James
Tallgrass / Dallas, Sandra
Their dogs came with them / Viramontes, Helena Maria
Them / McCall, Nathan
Then we came to the end / Ferris, Joshua
Theory of clouds / Audeguy, Stephane
This time of dying / James, Reina
Thousand splendid suns / Hosseini, Khaled
Time it takes to fall / Dean, Margaret Lazarus
Tipperary / Delany, Frank
Tokyo Year Zero / Peace, David
Tom Bedlam / Hagen, George
Tomorrow / Swift, Graham
Traveler / McLarty, Ron
Travels in the scriptorium / Austen, Paul
Tree of smoke / Johnson, Denis
Trespass / St Martin, Valerie
Unnatural history of Cypress Parish / Blackwell, Elise
Up high in trees / Brinkman, Kiara
Used world / Kimmel, Haven
Virgin of flames / Abani, Chris
Virgin's guide to Mexico / Martin, Eric B.
Visible world / Slouka, Mark
Voices / Indridason, Arnaldur
Water cure / Everett, Percival
We Go Liquid / Tebordo, Christian
Welsh girl / Davies, Peter Ho
What you have left / Allison, Will
When the grey beetles took over Baghdad / Yahia, Mona
When the light goes / McMurtry, Larry
When we get there / Seliy, Shauna
When we were bad / Mendelson, Charlotte
Wind from the east / Grandes, Almudena
Winterton Blue / Azzopardi, Trezza
Witch of Portobello / Coelho, Paulo
Year of endless sorrows / Rapp, Adam
Yellowcake / Crimmins, Ann
Yiddish policemen's union / Chabon, Michael
You don't love me yet / Lethem, Jonathan
Zoli / McCann, Colum
Zugzwang / Bennett, Ronan