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Billy O'Callaghan (born 9 December 1974) is an Irish short fiction writer and novelist.He is best known for his short-story collection The Things We Lose, The Things We Leave Behind, which was awarded the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Award for the short story in 2013 [1] [2] [3] and his widely-translated novel My Coney Island Baby, which was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature's ...
The Dead House is a 2015 young adult novel and the debut novel of Dawn Kurtagich. [1] The book was published in paperback in the United Kingdom on 6 August and 15 September 2015 by Orion Publishing and in hardcover in the United States on 15 September 2015 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers . [ 2 ]
The British Home Secretary, Sir Derek O'Callaghan MP, has received several death threats from anarchists affiliated with Stalinist Communism – and a pleading letter threatening suicide from Jane Harden, a nurse with whom he had a short affair some months earlier. O'Callaghan's old friend and family physician, Sir John Phillips, visits to ask ...
The Open Door series, an adult literacy series of novellas by well-known Irish authors, was launched in the mid-1990s by Irish publisher New Island and author Patricia Scanlan.
O'Callaghan (/ ə ˈ k æ l ə h ən, oʊ-,-h æ n,-ɡ ən,-ɡ æ n / [1] [2]) or simply Callaghan without the prefix (anglicized from two separate surnames and clans, Ó Ceallacháin, Munster Clan. Ó Ceileacháin, Oriel Clan ) is an Irish surname.
Fifty Dead Men Walking: The True Story of a British Secret Agent inside the IRA. Hastings House ISBN 978-0-803-89407-5 McKittrick, David , and David McVea (2012).
House's seventh novel, Lark Ascending, was released in the fall of 2022 and was an immediate indie bestseller, a USA Today bestseller, and winner of the 2023 Southern Book Prize in the category of fiction. The book received praise from authors such as Barbara Kingsolver, Billy O'Callaghan, Wiley Cash, Margaret Renkl, and Michelle Gallen.
The book is composed of monologues telling the stories of three Irishwomen from three generations, exploring marriage, adoption and pregnancy out of wedlock, and female sisterhood. While continuing to write fiction, she also worked as a contributing editor for the Journal of Irish Literature from 1975 to 1993, and was associate editor for the ...