To Keep a Bird Singing by Kevin Doyle

To Keep a Bird Singing by Kevin Doyle

‘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?

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 Banville

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.

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ISBN 13	9781780731711
ISBN 10	178073171X
Title	To Keep a Bird Singing
Author	Kevin Doyle
Series	Solidarity Books Trilogy
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Colourpoint Creative Ltd
Year published	2018-04-18
Number of pages	272
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