Ronan Bennett
Ronan Bennett was born and brought up in Belfast, and has a Ph.D. in history from King’s College, London. He is the author of The Second Prison (shortlisted for the Irish Times/Aer Lingus prize), Overthrown By Strangers, The Catastrophist (shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award) and most recently Havoc, in its Third Year (longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2004). He has written screenplays for film and t.v. for BBC1 – and also works as a journalist.
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The Second Prison
Kane is part of a group of young Irish republican activists, whose belief in their cause at times competes with an urge to inform the…
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Overthrown by Strangers
'We can't save ourselves,' Agustin tells Quinn and Judy, 'only each other'. Pursued through Mexico and Guatemala by the sinister New Era Mission, three solitary…
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The Catastrophist
Gillespie, an Irishman, goes to the Congo in 1959 in pursuit of his beautiful lover Inès, a passionate Italian journalist. Unlike her, Gillespie has no…