books in order

Glenn Patterson Books In Order

Novels

  1. Burning Your Own (1988)
  2. Fat Lad (1992)
  3. Black Night at Big Thunder Mountain (1995)
  4. The International (1999)
  5. Number 5 (2003)
  6. That Which Was (2004)
  7. The Third Party (2007)
  8. Once Upon a Hill (2008)
  9. The Mill for Grinding Old People Young (2012)
  10. The Rest Just Follows (2014)
  11. Gull (2016)
  12. Where Are We Now? (2020)

Non fiction

  1. Lapsed Protestant (2006)
  2. Here’s Me Here (2015)
  3. Backstop Land (2019)
  4. The Last Irish Question (2021)

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Glenn Patterson Books Overview

Burning Your Own

This first novel by a young Irish writer is about the rite of passage of a ten year old boy on the streets of Belfast in the summer of 1969. The principle issues which characterize the Ulster troubles are explored as the tale unravels. Glenn Patterson is twenty six and was born and bred in Belfast. In 1982 he left for the University of East Anglia, from where he graduated with an MA in Creative Writing.

The Third Party

Breakfast in a hotel, a stroll through town, take in a visitor attraction or two, then it’s off to a sales conference, followed by dinner and bed…
what could be more routine in the life of a travelling businessman? But this is no ordinary city. This is Hiroshima. The businessman has a murky past. And who is the mysterious Ike, a fellow traveller from Belfast, who just happens to be in Japan to give a reading from his new book at the university on the edge of town? Played out in a city where frantic consumerism exists alongside the dark eternal shadow of the bomb, ‘The Third Party‘ is a knowing and powerful exploration of death, guilt and the legacies of war. This is a mesmerising and dreamlike novel, bristling with taut psychological energy, a surreal journey where old and new, and east and west collide a journey to the bitter end; an end that has already begun.

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