Max O’Rover: The Books Are Back

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Max O’Rover

My name is Max O’Rover. Yes, it’s a pseudonym. And yes, it has to do with the idea of travel, of movement — above all, of return. Return to Ireland.

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Available Books

• The Day We Met Roddy Doyle
• Of Good and Bad Hopes

✦ The Day We Met Roddy Doyle

Short novel in Italian. Re-published through self-publishing. Available in Kindle and paperback formats.

• Kindle Edition – Amazon.it
• Kindle Edition – Amazon.com
• Paperback Edition – Amazon.it
• Paperback Edition – Amazon.com

✦ Of Good and Bad Hopes

Short story collection in English. Self-published. Available for pre-order (release date: 16 June 2025).

• Kindle Edition – Amazon.com
• Paperback version coming soon (link available from 16 June)

📖 In Progress

• The World at the End of the World – A narrative essay on the literary and existential landscapes of the Aran Islands, with photos and reflections on Beckett, Synge, McDonagh, and more.
• An Elsewhere View on Irishnesses – A collection of narrative essays in English on Irish culture and literature, seen from the perspective of someone who has chosen to belong to Ireland.

Who is Max O’Rover

Max O’Rover is the nom de plume of Massimiliano ‘Max’ Roveri.

Max began to exist — and to write about Ireland — in 2008, after nine years of fascination with the Emerald Isle and several trips to a land he already felt was his. As of writing, he has been living in Dublin for ten years and eleven months.

After spending the first five years in a neighbourhood that resembles the Barrytown of beloved Roddy Doyle’s novels, he now lives within easy pilgrimage distance of Cooldrinagh, the birthplace of Samuel Beckett — the writer he feels closest to.

He started working as a communications consultant for Catherine Dunne in 2016. From that, a friendship and a literary partnership grew, which also form the foundation of the San Patrizio Livorno Festival.

He has written The Day We Met Roddy Doyle, The Mystery of the Abandoned Pint, The Diaries of a Statue, The Third Life — all spectacularly unpublished or de-published. In order to, quoting Beckett, fail better, he stopped writing in Italian.

He completed The Butterfly Saviour, which received praise from John Banville; he is completing Three Lives; and he has started She-Wolf Blood, which he hopes will make him rich.

For the theatre — or perhaps for his dream-partner Claudio Monteleone — he wrote Nobody Else / Nessun Altro, You Know What I Mean / Lo Sai Cosa Voglio Dire, and Not-Beckett / Non-Beckett, which will premiere at SPLF25 and has received praise from Patrick Bixby, President of the Samuel Beckett Society, and Federico Platania, the mind and soul behind samuelbeckett.it.

When he’s not writing, planting seeds, or cooking, Max plays Skyrim or Fallout 4 with his wife Maria Grazia, who is also his life support system.