Jan 23, 2015 | Latest
Just back from London where I was interviewed about my novel West Belfast by George Galloway MP and Gayatri Pertiwi for their television programme Sputnik on Russia Today (to be broadcast on Saturday 24th January. About 13.30mins in). Bought Wandering by Hermann Hesse...
Jan 5, 2015 | Latest
Finished Gabriel Chevallier’s hilarious Clochemerle – a comic satire about how the building of a public lavatory provokes a furore in the eponymous Beaujolais village between the left and the right. Must get his novel about WWI, La Peur (Fear). Clochemerle...
Dec 26, 2014 | Latest
Books, glorious books! Spoilt rotten by Santas. From my beloved I got 1941: The Year That Keeps Returning by Slavko Goldstein, who was born in 1928 to Jewish parents in Sarajevo. His father kept a bookshop but was arrested and disappeared and then murdered by the...
Dec 17, 2014 | Latest
Spoke at Craigbane Graveyard at the unveiling of a newly erected headstone to Brigid and Rose O’Kane who billeted IRA Volunteers on the run in the 1940s, including my Uncle Harry. 12th December. On BBC Talkback panel with Alex Kane and Brian Feeney, hosted by William...
Dec 3, 2014 | Latest
A friend in the USA, Barbara, sent me this crazy animated video of a “Sinn Fein Christmas party” which I found hilarious! You’ll need to activate Quicktime on your computer. Enjoy! ElfYourself
Nov 22, 2014 | Latest
Finished the final edit of West Belfast. Many thanks to Tina Neylon for the proofing and Seán Misteíl for the brilliant cover! Thomas Pago of Elsinor Verlag hopes to have the book out by early-to-mid-December. 1st November. At Nuremberg, Germany, the left-wing...
