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Colin Bateman
Full Series List in Order
A Dan Starkey Novel
1 - Divorcing Jack (Sep-1995)2 - Of Wee Sweetie Mice and Men (Oct-1996)
3 - Turbulent Priests (Dec-1999)
Eddie & the Gang With No Name
1 - Running with the Reservoir Pups (Jan-2005)2 - Bring Me the Head of Oliver Plunkett (Oct-2005)
3 - The Seagulls Have Landed (Dec-2012)
Papercuts
1 - The Dead and the Quick (Feb-2016)2 - The Return of the Native (Feb-2016)
3 - Mr Turner's Prize (Feb-2016)
4 - Hong Kong Phooey (Feb-2016)
5 - The Good, The Bad and the Quite Ugly (Feb-2016)
6 - The Eagle Has Crash Landed (Feb-2016)
7 - The Next to Last of the Mohicans (Feb-2016)
8 - Dog Day Mid-Afternoon (Feb-2016)
SOS Adventure
1 - Ice Quake (Mar-2011)2 - Firestorm (Mar-2011)
3 - Tusk (Mar-2011)
Book List in Order: 32 titles
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Divorcing Jack
- Sep-1995
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Dan Starkey is a young journalist in Belfast, who shares with his wife, Patricia, a prodigious appetite for drinking and dancing. Then Dan meets Margaret, a beautiful and apparently impoverished student, and things begin to get out of hand. And then,...
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Cycle of Violence
- Nov-1995
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"Cycle of Violence," written with appealing verve and Colin Bateman s unique blend of sinister violence and sidesplitting dialogue, is a thrill ride through Belfast s most terrifying neighborhood with Miller, Ulster s wisecrack"...
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Of Wee Sweetie Mice and Men
- Oct-1996
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Fat Boy McMaster is a hopeless heavyweight boxer, but he has managed to become champion of Ireland, and his devious manager has succeeded in setting up a gigantic payday (largely for himself, admittedly) with a St Patrick's Day fight in New York agai...
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Empire State
- Jan-1998
- / General Fiction
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It's bad enough having a name like Nathan Jones - unless you're a Supremes fan, which Nathan isn't - but when his girlfriend leaves him (for a drag artist) and he gets mugged, then handcuffed to a bed and cut up in a misunderstanding with an S&M hook...
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Maid of the Mist
- Oct-1998
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New novel from the phenomenal bestselling author of Divorcing Jack and Empire State. Nothing much ever happens in Niagara Falls. It is a sleepy town full of honeymooners and tourists, and that's how Inspector Frank Corrigan likes it. He saw enough tr...
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Turbulent Priests
- Dec-1999
- / General Fiction
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Dan Starkey investigates the birth of a new Messiah on a small island off the coast of Ireland. Back together with his wife Patricia and the baby -- Little Stevie -- that resulted from her affair, Dan accepts a curious commission from Cardinal Daley ...
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Wild About Harry
- Oct-2001
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A tie-in to a terrific new film, but also a bona-fide Bateman novel in its own right, Wild About Harry tells of the trials and tribulations of a sleazy local chat show host. This is the story of Harry McKee -- sleazy local chat show host. A once lovi...
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Mohammed Maguire
- Nov-2001
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A dark and bleakly funny fable from the author of Divorcing Jack. A little boy left for dead when the US Marines destroy a terrorist training camp in the Libyan desert, Mohammed Maguire is brought back to Ireland, the land of his mother's birth, wher...
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Chapter and Verse
- 2003
- / General Fiction
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Writer Ivan Connor is desperate. His publisher has turned down his wonderful new novel, his agent is out of ideas, and the only person to turn up at his latest reading is his mum. He's deeply jealous of the marketable Francesa Brady, a hugely success...
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Running with the Reservoir Pups
- Jan-2005
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Eddie has a bad habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Otherwise, he never would have gotten mixed up with the Reservoir Pups, the scrappy gang of boys who rule the streets in his new town. And he definitely wouldn’t have agreed to th...
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Bring Me the Head of Oliver Plunkett
- Oct-2005
- / General Fiction
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Eddie Had never even heard of Oliver Plunkettâ€"or his sacred old headâ€"until the head was stolen. Now he has three days to find it and reap the rewards. And he has just the friends to help: Gary, a new classmate with a knack a for blowing things up...
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Titanic 2020
- Jun-2008
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Lucky Jimmy Armstrong and his friend Claire find themselves deserted by the new Titanic on an unfamiliar shore. With normal life changed forever, the world is left in the hands of cannibals, murderers and gangs. They are back to fighting for survival...
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Nine Inches
- Jun-2012
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Dan Starkey, the ducking and diving hapless investigator, takes center stage again in this brilliant new novel by the master of comic crime. Radio shock-jock and self-styled people's champion Jack Caramac is used to courting controversy - but when hi...
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The Seagulls Have Landed
- Dec-2012
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You would think Eddie Malone - hero, warrior, gang leader, intent on world domination - would have had enough of babies. And you would be right... But losing a baby is not good. And if it belongs to your mum, well - it's a disaster. Eddie is at his l...
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The Dead and the Quick
- Feb-2016
- / Mystery
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Through world wars and civil strife, the Bangor Express has never missed an issue, but now it is losing money hand-over-fist and Rob Cullen, fresh off the plane from his London news desk, has absolutely no idea that he's the man to save it.
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Dog Day Mid-Afternoon
- Feb-2016
- / Mystery
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Through world wars and civil strife, the Bangor Express has never missed an issue, but now it is losing money hand-over-fist and Rob Cullen, fresh off the plane from his London news desk, has absolutely no idea that he's the man to save it. Lured...
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The Eagle Has Crash Landed
- Feb-2016
- / Mystery
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Through world wars and civil strife, the Bangor Express has never missed an issue, but now it is losing money hand-over-fist and Rob Cullen, fresh off the plane from his London news desk, has absolutely no idea that he's the man to save it. Lured...
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The Good, The Bad and the Quite Ugly
- Feb-2016
- / Mystery
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Through World Wars and civil strife, the Bangor Express has never missed an issue, but now it's limping towards an inevitable doom â€" until London-based journalist Rob Cullen arrives on the scene. Lured back to Northern Ireland for the first tim...
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Hong Kong Phooey
- Feb-2016
- / Mystery
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Through world wars and civil strife, the Bangor Express has never missed an issue, but now it is losing money hand-over-fist and Rob Cullen, fresh off the plane from his London news desk, has absolutely no idea that he's the man to save it. Lured...
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Mr Turner's Prize
- Feb-2016
- / Mystery
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Through world wars and civil strife, the Bangor Express has never missed an issue, but now it is losing money hand-over-fist and Rob Cullen, fresh off the plane from his London news desk, has absolutely no idea that he's the man to save it. Lured...
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The Next to Last of the Mohicans
- Feb-2016
- / Mystery
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Through world wars and civil strife, the Bangor Express has never missed an issue, but now it is losing money hand-over-fist and Rob Cullen, fresh off the plane from his London news desk, has absolutely no idea that he's the man to save it. Lured...
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The Return of the Native
- Feb-2016
- / Mystery
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Through world wars and civil strife, the Bangor Express has never missed an issue, but now it is losing money hand-over-fist and Rob Cullen, fresh off the plane from his London news desk, has absolutely no idea that he's the man to save it. Lured...
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The Journey
- Apr-2023
- / Historical
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Ian Paisley, a staunch evangelical Protestant and advocate for Northern Ireland, and Martin McGuinness, a former leader of the IRA are forced to ride in a car together. Will their proximity help in the quest for peace? Colin Bateman's original screen...
