LIFE:

He is abandoned by his parents when he was fifteen. He begins to write his first novel, Ripley Bogie, 1989, the day when he decides to leave the University of Cambridge in 1985. The book follows the peregrinations in London of a wanderer of West Belfast, "the prince of sidewalks... The king of parks bench", alternating the present to frequent flashbacks that describe his childhood. After having definitively made many different jobs he decides to dedicate himself to literature writing the novels Manfred' s Pain, 1992 and Eureka Street, 1996.

SUGGESTED WORKS:

Eureka Street, 1996
In Belfast Chuckie, protestant, and Jake, catholic, are tied by a deep friendship. Chuckie, fat and mug antihero, succeeds to do amazing business thanks to bizarre as well as funny plans. Jake instead, despite his hard hide, is an incurable romantic and doesn't look for money and wealth but for a love that fills up his life. Around them a wide gallery of personages who go around on the background of a city plagued by unsolved conflicts and terrorists' bombs.

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