Manfred lives in a flat in London. He is old and lives with his illness - with a pain that paradoxically provides him with companionship. In flashbacks the reader is told of the events of his life: his experiences as a soldier in World War II, his ma...
In a city blasted by years of force and fury, but momentarily stilled by a cease-fire, two unlikely friends search for that most human of needs: love. But of course, a night of lust will do. Jake Jackson and Chuckie Lurgan--one Catholic, one Protesta...
Ripley Bogle, one of the most memorable Irish characters since Leopold Bloom roamed Dublin, is a self-proclaimed bum, an excoriating and expectorating Irish expatriate from Belfast, and a Cambridge dropout. Penniless but unbowed, he wanders the stree...