Table of Contents:
  • Celtic Tiger identity parades in Chris Binchy's Open-handed (2008) and Peter Cunningham's Capital sins (2010)
  • The possibilities of shame in Dermot Bolger's Tanglewood (2015)
  • Relative values in Donal Ryan's The thing about December (2013) and The spinning heart (2012)
  • Bildung and temporality in Justice Quinn's Mount Merrion (2013)
  • Debt, guild and form in (post-)Celtic Tiger Ireland
  • Finance and fiction in Deirdre Madden's Time present and Time past (2013)
  • Investing in fictions: faith abstraction and materiality in Paul Murray's The mark and the void (2015)