Joey ist neu an seiner Schule – doch in dem allseits beliebten Shane findet er schnell einen besten Freund. Seine Mitschülerin Geraldine aber warnt Joey: Shane hätte sich mit dem Bösen eingelassen und Joey solle sich besser von ihm fernhalten. Und tatsächlich geschehen immer merkwürdigere Dinge, wen...
When 16 year old Joey starts in a new school, he’s nervous about how he will be welcomed. He left his last school because of bullying, and is afraid that he could be put through that hell again. But when he looks behind him before entering the class-room for the first time, he sees a friendly lookin...
"I've been riding on a ghost train where the cars, they scream and slam; and I don't know where I'll be tonight, but I'd always tell you where I am." – Mark Knopfler, Tunnel of Love. It's a dull, dumbing and exhaustive routine, that night shift at the run-down metal factory, and it's only society'...
An old adage says that some good things are better left alone – and I've certainly found this to be true here, because although this "Finbar" sequel was devised and edited by Dermot Bolger, who also oversaw the original project, I cared decidedly less for this book than I did for the first "Finbar" ...
It's not exactly Dublin's first address, the old Finbar's Hotel on Victoria Quay, overlooking the River Liffey and opposite the palazzo structure of Heuston (erstwhile Kingsbridge) Railway Station – but it's a place with both character and history: It has survived a fire, among its guests over the y...