Declan Burke Writes

Those who have been following Alan Glynn’s career will appreciate the symmetry that sees his latest offering, GRAVELAND (Picador USA), set ...

It isn’t due until next April, unfortunately, but if the third in Alan Glynn’s ‘loose-trilogy of conspiracy thrillers’, GRAVELAND (Faber ...

It’s been a funny old week, folks. A real roller-coaster. As all Three Regular Readers will be aware, Alan Glynn’s BLOODLAND took home the ...

“Between my finger and my thumb / The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.”   Seamus Heaney, Digging It occurred to me on Thursday night, at the...

It would take a better man than yours truly not to be even slightly disappointed by the events which transpired at the Concert Hall in the ...

A tabloid star is killed in a helicopter crash. Three years later, a young freelance journalist, Jimmy Gilroy, is warned off the story by a...

Maybe we can blame Graham Greene, who famously - or infamously - labelled his crime novels ‘entertainments’, although I suspect it goes bac...

I do own more than one shirt, I swear. It just seems to be the case that, as happened last Friday night at the Mysterious Bookstore in New ...

Yesterday I do be mentioning Arlene Hunt in dispatches from last weekend’s trip to New York, so I do (sorry, but we were in an Irish bar on...

There’s a couple of interesting launches next week, folks, and lashings of ye olde claret in prospect as BLOODLAND and THE BLOODY MEADOW se...

I mentioned during the week on ye olde Twittere that I’d finished Alan Glynn’s latest offering, BLOODLAND , suggesting that he really shoul...

As anyone who has attended any of his events will attest, John Connolly is something of a one-man three-ring circus when it comes to his pu...

It’s fair to say that Alan Glynn is one of the most inventive and thoughtful Irish writers working today, and I was already looking forwar...

Not naming any names or nowt , but as events this week in Ireland have proved, you can’t be too paranoid about the likely consequences when...

Being the latest in what will probably be yet another short-lived series , in which yours truly reclines on a hammock by the pool with a je...

The publication of the paperback edition of Alan Glynn’s WINTERLAND is as good an excuse as any to reprint the interview with him I had pu...