The Black Pool
On sale
22nd May 2025
Price: £18.99
Following an obsessive mind trying (and failing) to find relief, The Black Pool is a gripping thrill-ride through violent, chaotic underworlds. Tracing the roots of an illness through the failures of youth and adolescence and finally back to childhood, it’s about all the wrong places where addicts look for transcendence – from work, to relationships, to writing, to anger.
The Black Pool shows what happens when everything falls apart. It shows us rock bottom and the start of the journey to recovery from there. It’s a memoir shot full of holes and shocking clarities. Towards the end, it achieves something like serenity – something like recovery.
The Black Pool shows what happens when everything falls apart. It shows us rock bottom and the start of the journey to recovery from there. It’s a memoir shot full of holes and shocking clarities. Towards the end, it achieves something like serenity – something like recovery.
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Reviews
PRAISE FOR TIM MACGABHANN'S CALL HIM MINE
A Telegraph Thriller of the Year
'A wild ride' IAN RANKIN
'Tough and uncompromising: you'll be glad you read it' LEE CHILD
'Gripping from beginning to end' INDEPENDENT
'Pacy and exciting' DAILY TELEGRAPH
'Vivid and lyrical' GUARDIAN
'MacGabhann paints an extraordinarily vivid picture of Mexico, in all its seething, sweltering madness and beauty' IRISH INDEPENDENT