Animosities
16th January 2025
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In 1951 a man’s innocent son is brutally beaten to death in London by four policemen. There is a cover-up.
In 1951 a man’s innocent son is brutally beaten to death in London by four policemen. There is a cover-up.
The Third in the I RETRU GRADE series: A twin tale of unholy adult male circumcision and a wife’s pursuit of an absconding husband unravels before my eyes.
The second in the I RETRU GRADE series: I Retru Grade entangled in the illegal trade in antiquities and a food repackaging scam.
I Retru Grade, a Jewish-Irish wisecracking, yarn-spinning shamus, is drawn into a hunt for a cache of diamonds.
This culmination of twenty years’ work is an evocation of life in the town of Lismore, County Waterford, Ireland during the writer’s childhood and formative years.
This was James Ballantyne first poetry collection.
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