That Which Was

As a Velvet Underground fan, student of stand-up comedy and former banker, Avery isn't your average Presbyterian minister. But then, Eastern Belfast is hardly your average parish. So when a man enters his church and confesses to murder, it's not wholly extraordinary until that is, Avery learns that the man can't remember when, where or why he killed. Feeling compelled to help this troubled soul, Avery is led down a tortuous path of unreliable truths and fractured memory that promises disastrous consequences for both his personal and professional life and ultimately his faith in everything.

Literature & Fiction

Patterson, Glenn

Contemporary

Penguin Books, Ltd.

The brilliant and unusual story of one house, five families, and the way ordinary lives are affected by an extraordinary town - Belfast. In this compelling, engaging and deeply moving novel, the successive occupants of a three-bedroomed terraced house go about the complicated business of keeping themselves and a home together in a place that the rest of the world knows as Belfast, but to them is just the town. Things happen that might happen anywhere, and things happen that could happen nowhere else, sometimes as noises off, and sometimes on the front doorstep. Birth, death, infidelity, loft conversions: this is the world as most of us see it - from the inside of the house out.

Number 5

Hamish Hamilton

Avery isn?t everyone?s idea of a model Presbyterian minister. A Velvet Underground fan and student of stand-up comedy, the former bank-worker can?t quite get used to being ?Reverend?. Then there?s his difficulty remembering biblical quotations ...Despite all this, Avery has absolute faith in his ability always to know the right thing to do. Until, that is, a man appears in his east Belfast church and confesses to murder. The only problem is ? this man can?t remember where, when or why he killed. Avery commits himself to finding out the truth of what happened, but if this stranger seems hampered by the limitations of his own memory, then the minister?s hands are tied by his professional and personal responsibilities ? and, as Avery soon realizes, neglecting his own concerns could have disastrous consequences .

Belfast, 1970s: Craig, St John, and Mazine meet while at middle school. Three very different people, they each come from testing backgrounds, and become friends just as life gets exciting and adulthood beckons. The years pass, and they try to live with themselves and the darker deeds of their hometown as honestly as they can. The Rest Just Follows is a sharply witty story about the people and place that make us who we are.

The Rest Just Follows: A Novel

Literary

Faber&Faber

What happens when history tries to squeeze itself into a town of ten thousand people, most of them related somewhere down the line? For Glenn Patterson`s grandparents, Jack and Kate, sedate old age in Lisburn belies the turmoil of their early life together, but also apart - they had to wait ten years to marry. Part personal memoir and part family story, with riveting awareness of the forces which sever and link generations, Once Upon a Hill is a detective story written against the simple erosion of memory and the reluctance of family members to talk. It is a rich, clear-sighted book which deals with love, violence, fortitude and, finally, forgiveness.

Once Upon a Hill

Bloomsbury UK

Acclaimed Belfast novelist Glenn Patterson's classic novel of a day in the life in that city: a funny, brilliantly observed, bittersweet snapshot of a moment in 1967 just before everything changed. "If I had known history was to be written that Sunday in the International Hotel I might have made an effort to get out of bed before teatime." So begins The International. Danny Hamilton takes us back over three troubled decades to one wonderfully ordinary Saturday, in January 1967, when his 18-year-old self had no idea — most people had no idea — that ordinary days in Belfast would soon become tragically rare. Ordinary, but packed with extraordinarily observed characters; and extraordinary enough for Danny to fall in love twice (and think about sex a few more times than that). Ordinary, but when someone calls out "Be careful" in parting, no one takes it lightly and for good reason. First published in the UK in 1999, and reissued by Blackstaff in 2008, The International is a timeless novel: funny, bawdy, deftly crafted, and heartwrenchingly humane. Featuring an essay “On Reading The International” by Man Booker-Prize winner Anne Enright

The International

Dramas & Plays

Emblem Editions

Burning Your Own

Genre Fiction

Blackstaff Pr

When Drew Linden’s new job brings him back to his native Belfast, he is determined to remain distant from everything that once tied him there, including his friends and family. But as three of generation of family history unfold, it becomes clear that the past Drew has been running from is the very thing he needs to face. And that his sense of himself is forever rooted in the troubled city of his birth.A powerful novel that weaves together family history with the history of Belfast, from the birth of the city, through its industrial heyday, World War 1, World War 2 and the Troubles.The book also contains an essay by Glenn Patterson and a critical essay by Robert McLiam Wilson. Glenn Patterson is also the author of Burning Your Own, The International and The Third Party, all published by Blackstaff Press.

Fat Lad: A classic Belfast novel by one of the best contemporary Irish writers

Blackstaff Press

Blackstaff Press Ltd

Das International ist Belfasts beruehmtestes Hotel, und seine Blue Bar gilt als Treffpunkt von Bohemians, Flaneuren, Trinkern und Touristen. Unter den wachsamen Augen des jungen Barkeepers Danny treffen hier die unterschiedlichsten Schicksale aufeinander: Stanley, der einsame Puppenspieler, hofft auf seinen kuenstlerischen Durchbruch, Clive geht im Hotel seinen kleinen Gaunereien nach, und Danny begegnet Ingrid, einer jungen Frau, die ein seltsames Geheimnis zu hueten scheint. Waehrend das Leben in der Bar die Schicksalsfaeden verknuepft, machen sich in der Lobby ein paar diskret gekleidete Herren daran, in die Geschicke Irlands einzugreifen. Bald schon wird das Land von Unruhen und Gewalt erschuettert werden, und auch die Tage des International sind gezaehlt. Doch fuer einen Tag im Winter liegt hier, zwischen Zigarrenqualm, Guinnessglaesern und Hochzeitsfeierlichkeiten, ein letztes Mal der Mittelpunkt der Welt. The International is the most famous hotel in Belfast and its Blue Bar is the meeting point of bohemians, drinkers and tourists. The young barkeeper Danny watches the different fates coming together: Stanley, a lonely puppeteer, has the hope of his artistic breakthrough; Clive is following his little trickery in the hotel; and Danny meets Ingrid, a young woman who seems to have a mysterious secret. As the fates of these characters come together there are a few men who try to influence the future of Ireland. Soon there are disturbances and violence in Ireland and the last days of the International have begun. But for one day in winter it centers for the last time on cigar smoke, glasses of Guinness, and wedding festivities. Klug, warmherzig und ueberzeugend. Glenn Patterson, ein wahrhaft grosser Autor, hat seiner Stadt und ihren Einwohnern ein unvergessliches Denkmal errichtet. The Times Ein zutiefst menschliches und herzzerreissendes Werk. Sunday Herald Dieser Roman wird ein Klassiker werden. Sunday Tribune

Die blaue Bar (German Edition)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

New Media German Language

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That Which Was

Number 5

That Which Was

The Rest Just Follows: A Novel

Once Upon a Hill

The International

Burning Your Own

Fat Lad: A classic Belfast novel by one of the best contemporary Irish writers

The International

Die blaue Bar (German Edition)