Burning Bridges

LEITCH, MAURICE

Hutchinson Educational

Orphaned at a cruelly young age, little Hugo Dinsmore is torn from his pampered life and plunged into the nightmare world of brutish country relatives, a world where his refined ways and small stature are a constant source of mockery and torment. Survival means learning to be sly, and Hugo soon finds his talents for retribution and petty thieving. His pure singing voice soon brings him to the attention of the Eggman, a much-feared local gangster who gets Hugo to perform for him and his cronies at their late-night poker sessions. Hugo becomes a well-dressed mascot, travelling with the Eggman and his enforcers in the back of a pink Cadillac. Gradually he breaks away from his old, wretched life, but as the Eggman's grip tightens and a criminal price must be paid for all the fine clothes, Hugo decides to make a spectacular and hazardous break for freedom.

The Eggman's Apprentice

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Vintage Books

Poor Lazarus

Macgibbon Kee

Gilchrist is on the run, holed up out of season in a sleazy resort on the coast of Spain. A former hell-fire preacher in flight from his own mistakes, Gilchrist has brought the church funds with him from Antrim, but has left behind the under-age girl whose baptism set his problems on the move.

Gilchrist: A novel

Secker Warburg

<p>Set in Northern Ireland during the Second World War, a seemingly random crime precipitates a collision of cultures when a local man is killed and the perpetrators are thought to be coloured GIs. This is a novel that lays bare the roots of prejudice.</p>

The Smoke King

RANDOM HOUSE UK

Stamping ground

Eggman's Apprentice

Gilchrist

Albert Yarr is a Protestant outsider in predominantly Catholic Ballyboe. Teetering on the edge of madness, Yarr is momentarily resurrected by a film producer, who enlists his help in a documentary. Yet the stranger's attentions only serve to precipitate Yarr's own psychological disintegration.

British & Irish

Blackstaff Pr

<p>Belfast is Silver s city. The city always made you pay for your dreams. Silver Steele, the folk-hero who fired the first shot of the Troubles, escapes from a prison cell into a city where he is remembered only in graffiti and finds a world where he is a symbol of a cause he no longer belongs to. Silver discovers that he has swapped a cell for the illusion of freedom: he is now the prisoner of Galloway, one of a new generation of gunmen. Against the background of a city at war Silver and Galloway engage in a private duel to the death.Silver s City introduced a new authenticity to the literature of Northern Ireland and is one of the seminal fictional portraits of the Troubles.</p>

Silver's City

Literary

Turnpike Books

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