Huge thanks to all who joined us for the launch of Joe O’Byrne’s A Red Orchestra in Blue! 💙📘
Special thanks to the Goethe Institute Irland & the German Embassy, & all who made it special.
Out tomorrow in select bookshops & online.
#RedOrchestrainBlue#WW2#historicalfiction
"Believe what is true -
Love what is rare -
Drink what is clear"
-- written on the wall of a castle in #Koblenz, #Germany
(From 'A Time of Gifts' by #PatrickLeighFermor )
"We must reflect that, when we reach the end of our days, our life experience will equal what we have paid attention to, whether by choice or default."
#WilliamJames
Mother slapped me. She was a former NYPD detective, eighty-eight years old and in the early stages of dementia.
'False Starts to My New Noir Novel'
https://t.co/Y4ymDyYhAK
“How can we kill someone… who was going to kill someone… who killed someone… in order to show that killing someone… who killed someone… is wrong?”
(from 'Hear Us Fade')
>> https://t.co/hvB7BupMtq
"When I was 17 years old, I dove into a swimming pool and broke my neck."
-- from 'Lying Still'
#spinalinjuries#healing#health
> https://t.co/Wbmmlv8LDm
"They say love is an act of imagination, and what's more imaginative than loving someone who doesn't exist?"
From 'The Value of Verity' -- a hilarious adaptation of 'The Importance of Being Earnest' set in a modern #highschool.
https://t.co/wJDLT9jIWk