“I am entering the frozen land, although to which country it belongs I cannot say.” David Park’s novel Travelling in a Strange Land is a brief story about fathers and sons, memory and regret, told from the point of view of a middle-aged man, Tom, travelling from Belfast to Sunderland to collect his son […]
Read more "Travelling in a Strange Land"The true border ran between the two forces of law and order, the Garda Siochana and the Police Service of Northern Ireland, the two police forces sliding darkly past each other like blips on a radar, separated by the whim of politicians, detectives passing each other in the night, their murmurs breaking the static on […]
Read more "Undertow"Being a crime novel set in Dublin, it is inevitable that drugs and gangland criminals make an appearance, as well as the IRA, and while those elements play a part in the plot, Parsons is more interested in psychological wounds and how those wounds motivate.
Read more "The Therapy House"How can this be? How can a film set in Belfast at the height of the Troubles – about punk music, of all things – be so sweet?
Read more "Good Vibrations"From the Willesden Herald
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The Omagh Literary Festival: Honouring Benedict Kiely
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