Read a love story for Valentine. Is love stronger than ideology? How does Derek Foley’s love for the supreme ideologue Sinéad pan out in Peeling Oranges? What was the tragic ending in the love affair between Guido and the beautiful…
For Love of Anna For Love of Anna is a glowingly reviewed and brilliantly written thumping good read of love, tragedy and corruption in high places, ideal for snowy nights by a log fire. When university student Guido van Thool…
Jo Jo and the Deer One day near Christmas Jo Jo was on her way into the woods. The woods were at the back of her house. Her daddy was at work and her mammy was talking at the front…
I am delighted to announce that my ebook short story The Widow’s Consoler (available on Kindle and other epub devices)is now for sale as an audiobook. After the death of her invalid husband, a widow’s previously suppressed feelings for her…
I am delighted to announce that my award-winning story Lovers who wound blame it on the storm has been translated into Italian & Portuguese. Available on Kindle and other epub devices. https://www.amazon.com/Amanti-che-biasimano-tempesta-Italian-ebook/dp/B07KTJM114/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1543318306&sr=1-1&refinements=p_27 https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07KTJM114/ref=rdr_kindle_ext_tmb ‘Amanti che biasimano la tempesta’ dimostra come…
Theory of Bastards Audrey Schulman Europa Editions €17 This story concerns social anthropologist Frankie Burke who receives a Foundation grant from a prestigious research institute to attempt to prove her theory of bastards by studying the behaviour of bonobos, an…
My first motor car was an old Morris Minor. I got it in the seventies and I could drive anywhere in it with impunity: into town, on dates, to the mountains and the sea. There was never a problem with…
Noise & Sound Reflections now on audio Ironic as it may seem I am delighted to announce the publication in audio of my book, a meditation on noise narrated impeccably by Gareth Richards. What is noise? What happens when it…
Bridge of Clay Markus Zusak Doubleday €21.99 Markus Zusak, after critical and popular success with his debut novel The Book Thief, is reputed to have spent twelve years in writing the much-anticipated Bridge of Clay. It involves five Australian brothers,…
I will be reading some of my poems in Irish with English translations from my collection Rus in Urbe to mark International Poetry Day on 28th September in the company of other Irish and Latvian poets. It would be great…