Books by Brian McGilloway
“This is a book about three former IRA operatives, who are under orders to recover bodies that they buried 30 years earlier in Scotland, when they active paramilitaries. They are Tony, Hugh and Karen. Two of them have moved on with their lives. I don’t want to nail my political colours to the mast. But I can tell you that writers from across both sides of the divide in Northern Ireland have saluted this book, because it presents a very human picture of how people can be dragged into a conflict, and how that conflict can follow them throughout their lives.” Read more...
The Best of Contemporary Irish Fiction
Liz Nugent, Novelist
Interviews where books by Brian McGilloway were recommended
The Best of Contemporary Irish Fiction, recommended by Liz Nugent
Bestselling author Liz Nugent, whose latest novel Our Little Cruelties is out now, talks to Five Books about the Irish writers that have been taking the world by storm in recent years—as she selects five unmissable recent works of Irish contemporary fiction, including books by Anne Enright and Sebastian Barry.
