Two pints. Roddy Doyle. 2012.

Two men meet for a pint in a Dublin pub. They chew the fat, and set the world to rights. They talk about their wives, their kids, their football teams and - this being Ireland in 2011-12 - the euro crisis, the presidential election, the Queen’s visit. But these men are not parochial or small-minded: one of them knows where to find the missing Colonel Gaddafi (he’s working as a cleaner at Dublin airport); they worry about Greek debt, the IMF, and the lads in the Vatican; they mourn the deaths of Whitney Houston, Donna Summer, Robin Gibbs and Maeve Binchy; and they ask each other the really important questions like ‘Would you ever let yourself be digitally enhanced?’