Introduction - i: Preface Section - ii: A Note on the Texts Section - iii: Chronology Unit - Revelations: Fiction 1973-2012 Chapter - 1: Summer at Birchwood (Birchwood, 1973) Chapter - 2: Rheticus (Doctor Copernicus, 1976) Chapter - 3: The Harmony of the Spheres (Kepler, 1981) Chapter - 4: Fern House (The Newton Letter, 1982) Chapter - 5: Gabriel Swan (Mefisto, 1986) Chapter - 6: Possessed of a Past Chapter - 7: I 'The painting is called' (The Book of Evidence, 1989) Chapter - 8: II 'I am always fascinated' (Ghosts, 1993) Chapter - 9: III 'When she urged me to beat her' (Athena, 1995) Chapter - 10: The Golden World (1992) Chapter - 11: Taking Possession (The Untouchable, 1997) Chapter - 12: The Lost Ones Chapter - 13: I 'The telephone began to shrill, giving me a fright' (Eclipse, 2000) Chapter - 14: II 'So this, she saw, was where it would end' (Shroud, 2002) Chapter - 15: III 'A charming spot it was Cass chose to die in' (Eclipse, 2000) Chapter - 16: IV 'We had a dreadful night' (Ancient Light, 2012) Chapter - 17: Lady Laura and the Dowager Duchess (Shroud, 2002) Chapter - 18: Only Dying, After All (The Sea, 2005) Chapter - 19: O Lost, Raw World! (The Infinities, 2009) Chapter - 20: Blest Boy (Ancient Light, 2012) Unit - Playing Parts: Stage and Radio Plays, 1994-2006 Chapter - 1: From The Broken Jug (1994) Chapter - 2: Stardust: Three Monologues of the Dead (2002) Chapter - 3: Kepler (2004) Chapter - 4: A World Too Wide (2005) Chapter - 5: Conversation in the Mountains (2006) Unit - A Blest World: Essays, Lectures and Reviews, 1990-2010 Chapter - 1: Survivors of Joyce (1990) Chapter - 2: The Personae of Summer (1993) Chapter - 3: Thou Shalt Not Kill (1997) Chapter - 4: 'Speaks True Who Speaks Shadow' (2001) Chapter - 5: Fiction and the Dream (2005) Chapter - 6: Beckett's Last Words (2006) Chapter - 7: Living Ghosts (2010) Unit - Fidgets of Remembrance: Memoir, 1989, 2003 Chapter - 1: Lupins and moth-laden nights in Rosslare (1989) Chapter - 2: 'It was winter the first time I saw Prague' Unit - Firstlings: Early Fiction, 1966-1971 Chapter - 1: The Party (1966) Chapter - 2: Wild Wood (Long Lankin, 1970) Chapter - 3: On Nightspawn (Nightspawn, 1971) Unit - Begettings: In Progress/In Retrospect, 2006/2009 Chapter - 1: 'Of the things we gave them' (from The Infinities MS, 2006) Chapter - 2: First Light (The Infinities, 2009) Acknowledgements - iv: Acknowledgements Section - v: Sources Section - vi: About the Author