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A Benedict Kiely Reader

‘Benedict Kiely. Without a doubt one of the greatest unsung heroes of Irish literature.’ Colum McCann, Sunday Independent

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Turnpike books publishes a series of Northern Ireland’s literature, neglected authors such as Shan Bullock, St John Ervine and Janet McNeill alongside acclaimed writers such as Benedict Kiely.

There is also a series of the selected short stories of the major English writers of the twentieth-century, beginning with the stories of A.E. Coppard, J.B. Priestley and V.S. Pritchett.

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Shan Bullock wrote Fermanagh into existence and shaped a specific Ulster identity…

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Reckless Laughter

‘The man was a one-off genius… For his reckless laughter and faith in human beings.’ – Patrick McCabe, author of The Butcher Boy

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‘Silvers City’ – Where did freedom lie?

I first read Silver’s City in 1989 as a teenager who had recently moved to Belfast to study and I still own that copy bought with money from my student grant. On re-reading it last year I realised that the concept of a ‘student grant’ is more …read more

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