1916 - 2016 One hundred years ago, in the wake of the Easter Rising, defeated Irish rebels surrendered to a British general. That same day, a defeated British general surrendered to the Ottoman Turks. This is the story of Robert Lampeter, a young officer and filmmaker who survived the disastrous campaign, and a brutal imprisonment. In 1921, Lampeter is a tortured soul, living in Paris. His memory of captivity is flawed, but recurring nightmares suggest the worst. At a dinner party for James Joyce and his forthcoming novel, "Ulysses, " Lampeter meets an attractive...
1916 - 2016 One hundred years ago, in the wake of the Easter Rising, defeated Irish rebels surrendered to a British general. That same day, ...
In 2000 an octogenarian retired schoolteacher is brutally murdered in the little town of Carlingford, close to the border that divides Ulster from the Irish Republic. Is it a paramilitary killing? Or something infinitely more sinister? Blade Macken, detective superintendent with Dublin's elite Special Branch, is assigned to the case. But forces higher than the law are attempting to thwart his investigations. Using the age-old strategy of "divide and conquer," they succeed in isolating Macken from his partner, the lovely Detective Sergeant Orla Sweetman, who finds herself and...
In 2000 an octogenarian retired schoolteacher is brutally murdered in the little town of Carlingford, close to the border that divides Ulster from...
"Usher's Island" is a Gothic novel that marries history with the paranormal to create a thought-provoking tale. The book opens in the winter of 1846, as the Famine rages in many parts of Ireland. Daniel Keating attends the birth of a child to his sister, Brigid. The baby girl, Deirdre, is born. Brigid dies during the delivery, a victim of the cruel eviction that took place a day or two earlier. Daniel is wrongly accused of murdering the landlord who precipitated his sister's death, and must go into hiding to evade the authorities. He survives much hardship, and flees to...
"Usher's Island" is a Gothic novel that marries history with the paranormal to create a thought-provoking tale. The book opens in the winter ...
Portia is a young Belfast poet. Together with her fiance Myles, an aspiring novelist, she accepts an invitation to stay at an old manor house in rural Ireland. Their host is Brinsley, an eccentric but learned individual. Myles embarks on his first novel, a reworking of Poe's "Fall of the House of Usher." But his laptop goes missing in sinister circumstances. Portia finds a replacement in Belfast and buys it at a bargain price. They discover that its owner died by his own hand. He was a designer and typographer, creator of a mysterious font called Pugnello. Myles discovers that he cannot...
Portia is a young Belfast poet. Together with her fiance Myles, an aspiring novelist, she accepts an invitation to stay at an old manor house in rural...
