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by Peter Murphy
Published Apr 2010
Read ReviewsThis is the story of John Devine stuck in a small town in the eerie landscape of Southeast Ireland, worried over by his single, chain-smoking, bible-quoting mother. Suffused with family secrets, eerie imagery, black humor, and hypnotic prose, John the Revelator is a novel to fall in love with and an astounding debut.
by Louise Dean
Published Feb 2008
Read ReviewsAn affecting and well-researched depiction of the political and social strife of Northern Ireland in the winter of 1979.
by Frank Delaney
Published Feb 2006
Read ReviewsFrom a land famous for storytelling comes an epic novel that captures the intimate, passionate texture of the Irish spirit.
by Edna O'Brien
Published May 2001
Read ReviewsCharts the quick and critical demise of relations between Joseph Brennan and Mick Bugler "the warring sons of warring sons" in the countryside of western Ireland.
by Thomas Moran
Published Mar 2001
Read ReviewsThe breathtaking love story of a young woman's betrayal, a haunting portrait of the extraordinary beauty and inexorable violence of a divided Ireland.
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