Does every human being think the body he or she inhabits is ugly? - The most beautiful fashion-model develops eating disorders because she believes her body to be flawed. - The hero of this novel, nick-named Lofty, thinks the Creator has dealt him a poor hand, physically and intellectually, and embarks on a campaign to thwart the designs of this same Creator.

His campaign sees him combine the roles of hawker in religious goods and keeper of a mobile brothel. Because of his eccentric manner, people consider him a half-wit. And his school experiences persuade him that this estimate is true. Yet, in a tragi-comic way, his untutored mind grapples with the gigantic themes, the nature of God and creation, death and reincarnation, Einsteinian time, and he arrives at his own world-view, his own mystical insights.

Set in the mid-seventies, this novel explores the world through the eyes of this eccentric young man, from the West of Ireland to Paris and Lourdes. The relationship he strikes up with a prostitute on the streets of Paris leads back to the woman-starved West of Ireland and into a sequence of events which hurtle towards disaster.

This book will survey the life and work of one of Ireland’s greatest sculptors of modern times. Fred Conlon died in 2005 while he was still at the peak of his powers. His major works are all public sculptures located around Ireland and abroad, so Harte’s book will seek to present the work in photographic form in all its scope and variety. It will also seek to present the life and background of the artist which so inspired his work.

This book is a collaborative effort with the artist Henry Sharpe. Inspired by the Tarot, the book will feature Sharpe’s graphics of the Major Arcana and Harte’s story or sequence of stories.