The Convictions of John Delahunt
$34.02
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
15 October 2014
Summary
Set in Dublin in the 1840s and based on the true story of the murder of a child, this dazzling literary debut - at once a historical novel and crime thriller - will appeal to fans of Andrew Taylor, Andrew Miller and Peter Ackroyd.
Dublin, 1841. On a cold December morning, a small boy is enticed away from his mother and his throat savagely cut. This could be just one more small, sad death in a city riven by poverty, inequality and political unrest, but this killing causes a public outc…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780552779418 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0552779415 |
| Author: | Andrew Hughes |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Black Swan Ireland |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 15 October 2014 |
| Weight: | 241g |
| Dimensions: | 22mm x 127mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
A quite exceptional novel … The world he creates has echoes of Kafka and Orwell … totally convincing. It draws you in like a trap.
A quite exceptional novel … The world he creates has echoes of Kafka and Orwell … totally convincing. It draws you in like a trap. * C. J. SANSOM, author of Dissolution and Winter in Madrid *
Unputdownable … chillingly portrayed … a highly sophisticated first novel. * CHARLES PALLISER, author of The Quincunx *
Compelling and eerily authentic … Read it and be grateful to be alive in our day and age. * ROBERT GODDARD *
A dark, original story wrapped in a wonderful gothic gloom … it’s a tough act to pull off, but Andrew Hughes manages it with brio. I heard echoes of James Hogg and Robert Louis Stevenson. * ANDREW TAYLOR, author of The American Boy and The Scent of Death *
Reminiscent of John Banville’s The Book of Evidence … a bracing, lurid tale that is as engrossing as it is chilling. – Declan Burke * IRISH INDEPENDENT *
A vivid piece of writing … brings to mind Andrew Miller’s Costa-winning novel, Pure. * IRISH TIMES *
Extraordinarily detailed world, impeccably researched … so superbly written that it soars as a masterly work of fiction … utterly compelling. – Dermot Bolger * IRISH MAIL ON SUNDAY *
An intriguing debut (that) sets out Hughes as one to watch. * SUNDAY TIMES IRELAND *
A skilfully planned, elegantly written debut … a riveting read. * SUNDAY INDEPENDENT *
Stupendous: a brilliant achievement for a first novel, completely compelling and with a perfectly damaged central character. * MANDA SCOTT *
Andrew Hughes
Born in Co. Wexford, ANDREW HUGHES was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. A qualified archivist, he worked for RTE before going freelance. It was while researching his acclaimed social history of Fitzwilliam Square - Lives Less Ordinary: Dublin’s Fitzwilliam Square, 1798-1922 - that he first came across the true story of John Delahunt that inspired his debut novel, The Convictions of John Delahunt.
Andrew Hughes lives in Dublin.
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