Patrick McGinley

• May-1981
• / Suspense
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A rediscovered classic of Irish literature, this darkly comic tale tells of murder and its consequences.

Set in a remote village in the northwest of Ireland, Roarty, a publican and former priest, kills his lecherous bartender and buries hi...

• Oct-1982
• / Suspense
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Patrick McGinley is able to do what few novelists can: write stories and characters that are drenched in place (specifically, rural Ireland), and yet totally devoid of cheap sentimentality. His landscapes have the edgy, ludicrous beauty of a dream - ...

• Dec-1984
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1985
• / Suspense
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Martin Reddin, an Irishman, changes his name to Charles Keating, and accepts a position at a country estate shared by an Englishman, Welshman, and Scotsman, but at the same time a mysterious murderer begins stalking the area...

• Apr-1986
• / General Fiction
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Set against World War II, this is a tragi-comic tale of an Englishman who tries to start a potato farm in rural Ireland, and is mistaken for a hero by the locals - with bizarre consequences, escalating to accidental death, suicide, and murder.
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• 1987
• / General Fiction
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Patrick McGinley's sixth novel, true to his distinctive style, is set in the austere and haunting landscape and shoreline of the author's native county, Donegal, Ireland. Love and death appear as the inescapable enigmas of being in the world....

• May-1987
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1988
• / General Fiction
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The Devil's Diary is Patrick McGinley's greatest tribute to his master Flann O'Brien, in this dark humoured portrayal of a harrowing Irish landscape in which lunacy reigns.

Idealistic love and death, sibling rivalry and obsessi...

• Oct-2013
• / Mystery
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He got down on his hands and knees and reached in under the bed where he kept his toolbox. Careful not to make a sound, he searched desperately for a weapon of defence. Then the bedroom door creaked behind him and he knew he was no longer alone in t...

• Jun-2016
• / Literary
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Bishop's Delight, set in the confident Ireland of the Celtic Tiger, meditates on the difficulty of separating truth from lies in the frenzy that is the media. When long-serving and charismatic Taoiseach Jim Maguire vanishes while fishing off the Conn...