When I was a young lad twenty or thirty or forty years ago I lived in a small town where they were all after me on account of what I done on Mrs Nugent.Francie Brady is a small-town rascal who spends his days turning a blind eye to the...

A New York Times Notable Book"[A] moving, brilliantly told tale. . . full of human comedy and cruelty." ? Washington Post Book WorldFrom internationally acclaimed author Patrick McCabe, the Booker Prize-nominated novel that tracks the...

"When I was a young lad twenty or thirty or forty years ago I lived in a small town where they were all after me on account of what I done on Mrs. Nugent." Thus begins Patrick McCabe's shattering novel The Butcher Boy, a powerful and...

"Mondo Desperado" von Patrick McCabe ist eine Sammlung von miteinander verbundenen Kurzgeschichten, die in einer fiktiven irischen Kleinstadt spielen. Die Geschichten sind durchdrungen von schwarzem Humor und skurrilen Charakteren, die...

Malachy Dudgeon has escaped the misery and madness of his childhood home and landed a job in the most famous school in Dublin. The headmaster, Raphael Bell, has overcome his own tragedies to forge a model career, but when Malachy Dudgeon...