1918. Britain and her allies are still fighting in the final stages of World War One. William Butler Yeats, Ireland’s renowned poet, resides in London. There he spends his days immersed in the other world ghosts and the occult. Convinced he is haunted by the ghost of a young murdered Irish girl he s...
Set in nineteen thirties London, Curtain Call depicts a network of contrasting characters - a pompous gay theatre critic, his long-suffering secretary, a West-End actress, a prostitute, and a society portrait-painter - all caught up in a series of sadistic murders that changes their lives irrevoc...
London at the dawn of 1918 and Ireland's most famous literary figure, WB Yeats, is immersed in supernatural investigations at his Bloomsbury rooms. Haunted by the restless spirit of an Irish girl whose body is mysteriously washed ashore in a coffin, Yeats undertakes a perilous journey back to Irelan...
bookshelves: winter-20142015, fradio, period-piece, published-2015, radio-4, newtome-author, britain-england, london, mystery-thriller, glbt Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from January 07 to 24, 2015 BABThttp://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04xndg2Description: On a sultry afternoon in th...
Anthony Quinn is an Irish writer and journalist whose first novel Disappeared was acclaimed by the Daily Mail as 'unquestionably one of the crime novels of the year, written in peerless prose.’ It was shortlisted for a Strand Literary Award by the book critics of the Guardian, LA Times,Washington Po...