Book Extract

‘How had one small thing caused such misery when it had so easy a solution?’ – essay by Rory Gleeson

Irish author Rory Gleeson offers an acute take on one man’s battle with life, laziness and an unstoppable, indestructible bleep . . .

Rory Gleeson’s essay, The Bleep, appears in the new Summer 2022 edition of the Dublin Review

On a busy road in north London, sandwiched between a barber and a café, there is a small off-licence/sweet shop, one of countless such that dot the city. It’s a place where you can purchase a can of strong ale and a pack of M&Ms at nine in the morning.

They carry a wide range of biscuits, elderly Magnums, lottery tickets and large tubes of Pringles. You can snag a box of tampons or a ...