The Captain with the Whiskers

Proof copy. 288pp. Printed blue wrappers. Originally published by Methuen in 1960.

Author's seventh novel. In Bingen House, on the edge of the Atlantic, lives Captain Conway Chesney – small, neat, efficient and a diabolical domestic tyrant. Owen Rodgers, son of a local doctor, peers down from a stable loft into the farmyard and discovers the evil secret of Bingen, and is possessed by it. An extraordinary study of a psychopath and of the terrible consequences of his life and death. "What a pleasure it is to see The Captain with the Whiskers once again arriving on our bookshelves, just as fine and invigorating as always. If one of the functions of literature is to speak freshly across the decades, then Ben Kiely and this novel will travel on forever." –Colum McCann