Glenn Patterson

• Jan-1995
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In the centre of EuroDisney's Magic Kingdom, the night that the Croatian city of Vukovar falls, a German canteen assistant and a Northern Irish construction worker are held at gunpoint in the cavernous interior of Big Thunder Mountain. Their attacker...

• Mar-2004
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Number 5 is a three-bedroom terrace house in a suburban Belfast street. From the '50s to the present day, successive occupants fill the house with their troubles and joys, simply trying to cope with all that life hurls their way whilst outside the fr...

• Jul-2005
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As a Velvet Underground fan, student of stand-up comedy and former banker, Avery isn't your average Presbyterian minister. But then, Eastern Belfast is hardly your average parish. So when a man enters his church and confesses to murder, it's not whol...

• Dec-2007
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Breakfast in a hotel, a stroll through town then it’s off to a meting with clients, followed by dinner and bed … what could be more routine in the life of a travelling businessman?But this is Hiroshima, no ordinary city. And for this Belfast busi...

• Apr-2008
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It is the summer of 1969 and ten-year-old Mal is finding it difficult to settle in to his new home, a housing estate on the outskirts of Belfast. He befriends a brash and rebellious teenager, Francy, who revels in his own status as an outsider and ha...

• Apr-2008
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When Drew Linden’s new job brings him back to his native Belfast, he is determined to remain distant from everything that once tied him there, including his friends and family.But as three generations of family history unfold, it becomes clear that...

• Feb-2011
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Acclaimed Belfast novelist Glenn Patterson's classic novel of a day in the life in that city: a funny, brilliantly observed, bittersweet snapshot of a moment in 1967 just before everything changed."If I had known history was to be written that Sunday...

• Mar-2012
• / Historical
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In the cold dawn of Christmas Day 1897, Gilbert Rice, 85 years old and with failing health, recounts his journey into manhood in a city on the cusp of great change. Belfast in the 1830s was a city in flux. Industrialisation had led to an increase in ...

• Feb-2014
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First of September 1974. Craig Robinson is starting secondary school. Instinct tells him he needs to keep his head down. The last thing he needs, therefore, is someone carrying the name St John Nimmo to be sent to sit beside him, but that is what he ...

• Jan-2016
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It was one of the most bizarre episodes in the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland: the construction, during the war's most savage phase, of a factory in West Belfast to make a luxury sports car with gull-wing doors. Huge subsidies were p...

• Mar-2020
• / Literary
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A moving, funny and topical novel about lost love, growing older and the realities of life in a society that is still coming to terms with thirty years of violence from the author of Gull and Backstop Land

'No one is more acutely tuned...

• Sep-2023
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A pair of novellas, set over two pivotal summers in the lives of two young men from Belfast, recall the constraints of the place where they were born and the times in which they are living.Summer on the RoadIt's 1980 and in the last summer before his...