To Keep a Bird Singing
He Knows it's a Cover-Up, but Can He Prove it?
Published on 18. April 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-1-78073-171-1 (ISBN)
Description
'An impressive and thrilling debut that looks corruption in the eye and never blinks.'
DAVID PARK
When Noelie Sullivan finds his stolen punk records for sale in a charity shop in Cork, it seems like a lucky break. But Noelie has just made himself and those closest to him a target.
Hidden among the records is a statement alleging that missing local man, Jim Dalton,
was murdered by the security services twenty years ago to protect a high-ranking
informer in the IRA. In spite of himself, Noelie gets drawn into the story of Dalton's disappearance and uncovers a link between the missing man and a powerful family of brothers, who have ties to a former industrial school.
Noelie's every move takes him deeper into danger. What price will he pay for the truth?
DAVID PARK
When Noelie Sullivan finds his stolen punk records for sale in a charity shop in Cork, it seems like a lucky break. But Noelie has just made himself and those closest to him a target.
Hidden among the records is a statement alleging that missing local man, Jim Dalton,
was murdered by the security services twenty years ago to protect a high-ranking
informer in the IRA. In spite of himself, Noelie gets drawn into the story of Dalton's disappearance and uncovers a link between the missing man and a powerful family of brothers, who have ties to a former industrial school.
Noelie's every move takes him deeper into danger. What price will he pay for the truth?
Reviews / Votes
Exchange Place is exactly what you want from a novel: a thrilling story steeped in intrigue which at the same time challenges and entertains. a master study in the nature of identity Carson is a great carthographer of Northern Irish literature Exchange Place is gloriously uncategorisable. Robbe Grillet would have welcomed it, as would Queneau and Perec, but Hammett and Chandler too would have tipped the brims of their trilbys in salute. A wonderful intellectual romp. -- John BanvilleMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Colourpoint Creative Ltd
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Weight
312 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78073-171-1 (9781780731711)
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Person
Kevin Doyle was born and brought up in Cork. He holds a
Masters in Chemistry from NUI (Cork), and worked for a
number of years in the chemical industrial sector in Ireland
and the United States. He has been published in many
literary journals, including the Stinging Fly, the Cork Review,
Southwords and the Cuirt Journal. He has been shortlisted for
a number of awards, including the Hennessy Literary Awards
and the Sean O Faolain Prize, and has won the Tipperary
Short Story Award and the Michael McLaverty Short Story
Award. He has written extensively about Irish and radical
politics and, with Spark Deeley, he wrote the award-winning
children's picture book, The Worms that Saved the World.
To Keep a Bird Singing is his first novel.
Masters in Chemistry from NUI (Cork), and worked for a
number of years in the chemical industrial sector in Ireland
and the United States. He has been published in many
literary journals, including the Stinging Fly, the Cork Review,
Southwords and the Cuirt Journal. He has been shortlisted for
a number of awards, including the Hennessy Literary Awards
and the Sean O Faolain Prize, and has won the Tipperary
Short Story Award and the Michael McLaverty Short Story
Award. He has written extensively about Irish and radical
politics and, with Spark Deeley, he wrote the award-winning
children's picture book, The Worms that Saved the World.
To Keep a Bird Singing is his first novel.