Pat McCabe

Telling the strange and sometimes hilarious tale of a deeply disturbed boy, a portrait of a dangerous mind profiles Francie, known in his repressive Irish town as the "Pig Boy," as his bright and love-starved psyche descends into madness. Reprint.

The Butcher Boy

Returning to the remote Irish mountains where he grew up, journalist Redmond Hatch meets Auld Pappie Ned, a seemingly benign fiddler and storyteller who ignites a disastrous series of events.

A Novel

Winterwood

A schoolteacher and a headmaster in small-town Ireland grapple with their own demons and struggle to cope with the tragedy that strikes a young student in their charge

The Dead School

twin epistles of gothic dread that will turn your world upside down

Hello and goodbye

Reflecting on his public life and a darker existence he has struggled to forget, Chris, the illegitimate son of a wealthy Protestant landowner's wife and a poor Catholic farmer, becomes increasing obsessed with a young Catholic Nigerian boy and hides the shame of his birth. Original. 25,000 first printing.

The Holy City

Josie Keenan, who has returned to her provincial hometown, and factory worker Sadie Rooney, who dreams of leaving, strike up a friendship that is fueled by their hopes to better their lives and their need to confront difficult truths. Reprint.

Carn

Seven men wait in Mervyn's Mountain Bar, awaiting the arrival of Tony Begley and his six-inch boning knife, Sweety. Ray 'Ringo' Wade hides above them in the rafters, silent and consumed by shame as Jody, the only friend he's ever known, lies beaten and bound in the outhouse, waiting to meet his maker at the hands of the bar's raucous inhabitants. The reason for this bloody retribution? Ray and Jody went and jacked over the one and only William Walter Monroe - the man who took them in, for better or worse, and single-handedly moulded Glasson County into a place people could be proud of. To a man, they bear the mark of Cain, and the acts of the past are never far from the present. Insulated from the world by his shaky delusion, Ray Wade recounts the tale he has no choice but to live with. A backwoods sinfonia of rough poetry and black comedy about the love we give and the horror we visit upon one other - and ourselves.

Heartland

New ideas are invading the strict provincial Catholic culture he loves, unhinging old ways, pulling Ireland and an unwilling Bell into the future.

Conceived in a moment of mad passion by a randy Irish priest and his temporary housekeeper -- and abandoned on a doorstep in a Rinso box as an infant -- her ladyship "Pussy" (né Patrick) Braden grew up fabulous and escaped tiny Tyreelin, Ireland, to start life anew in London. In blousy tops and satin miniskirts she plies her trade as a transvestite rent boy on Picadilly's Meat Rack, risking life and limb among the city's flotsam and jetsam. But it is the 1970s, and fear haunts the streets of London and Belfast -- and as radioactive history approaches critical mass, the coming explosion of violence and tragedy may well blow Pussy's fragile soul asunder.

Breakfast on Pluto

The Mouse from Longford

The Adventures of Shay Mouse

Patrick 'Pussy' Braden kann auf ein bewegtes Leben zurückblicken. Nach einer trostlosen Kindheit im bigotten Irland der fünfziger Jahre schafft er den Ausbruch, indem er sich in Frauenkleider hüllt, nach England geht und dort sein Geld als Transvestit im Londoner Rotlichtmilieu verdient. Doch als der englisch-irische Konflikt mit voller Gewalt ausbricht, gerät auch Pussys Traumwelt ins Wanken.

Roman

Neil Jordan

Set in the 1970's, Breakfast on Pluto follows the exploits of Patrick Braden, an endearing, but deceptively tough young man. Abandoned as a baby in his small Irish hometown and aware from a very early age that he is different, Patrick survives this harsh environment with the aid of his wit and charm, plus a sweet refusal to let anyone and anything change who he is. Neil Jordan weaves a wonderfully surreal and magical tale to bring us this funny, moving and poignant rites of passage account of a young man enduring the trials and tribulations he faces with a smile and unwavering faith in the inherent goodness in us all.

Pat McCabe

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