The Half Days

The Irish Leopard

“If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.” Il Gattopardo, Giuseppe di Lampedusa Without a doubt Gavin Brady was a product of that mythical time in the faculty when it was enough to flash your Irish passport and the professors would assume you were a literary descendant of James …

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The Joker

Tutt’ a Post’

La Uascezze was a bar in the old town, much in favour with the English Club and their hangers-on. Graham and Gavin and his mate, Sean, who was over for the week from Manchester, were down one end of the table drinking Effe beer when Graham leaned back in his chair. As he did, he …

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No News, Julia’s News

Meanwhile in the private room of the Dorian Grey, a Hamburg nightclub, she became virtually acquainted with her double First there was no news and then there was Julia’s news. The card of a beached fishing smack was sent from Corfu where she’d met a Birmingham boy called Scott, master of torque settings, and scourge …

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