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Deadly Confederacies and Other Stories
In this new collection of short stories, Martin Malone explores the hidden world behind the front door of family life and the secret world behind the public face. From a teenager adjusting to a new world among relatives in 1970s Wales, to a man and his partner adjusting to a darker Ireland filled with unemployment, health scares and only dreams of a better future he brings the reader deep inside the minds and lives of his characters. In intimate prose and illuminating detail Malone displays his skills as a master of setting and description. Driven by Malone's ability to empathise and understand even the most extreme of minds, the stories bring twists, humour and sadness in vivid and gripping prose. Deadly Confederacies is a collection to be savoured and enjoyed.
Black Rose Days
'He beat her. Broke skin, left her needing stitches, and begged his sister to furnish him with an alibi. My husband. What on earth have I married? A dormant monster?' Secrets, once disturbed, can ruin a life that has been spent trying to hide them. Two voices - one living, one dead - compete to find the truth behind the unsolved murder of Ena Tierney, committed thirty-one years ago on the Curragh Plains. Dan Somers, Ena's husband and the chief suspect at the time of the murder, returns to Ireland in an attempt to clear his name once and for all and uncover what has been left hidden for far too long. As Dan learns of the events surrounding Ena's death, a great turbulence roars to life that will consume everything - and everyone - in its path. A gripping and disturbing mystery, Black Rose Days is the latest powerful work by Martin Malone, one of Ireland's finest storytellers.
Gardenstown
Martin Malone & Bryan Angus's Gardenstown is a sequence of Malone's remarkable poetry, interspersed with Angus's exquisite linocuts, which capture the essence of the people, places and wildlife in north-east Scotland.
Us
Us deals with a family's struggle to survive and keep a grip on sanity when the unspeakable is spoken and its darkest secrets come to light.
The Broken Cedar
A compelling novel of middle-eastern conflict, turning on one man's crisis of conscience as his death approaches in modern-day Lebanon. The Enclave; home to Lebanon's dispossessed. Khalil has made his life here, catering to the needs of UN troops on the Israeli-Lebanon border. His small electrical shop has served him and his family well, has sustained them through turbulent years of conflict, and now it is time to let go, to live his final days in peace. But when a young Irishman walks in to his shop Khalil is forced to confront an act of horrifying violence from his past. Years before he was witness to the lynching of an Irish UN peacekeeper. What happened next has remained a secret for fifteen years. And now, the son returns. Exploring in intimate and compelling detail the effects of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on everyday Lebanese life, THE BROKEN CEDAR turns on one man's terrible crisis of conscience as he attempts to reconcile past actions with present consequences.
The Lebanon Diaries
During his five tours of duty with the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), Martin Malone has seen the best and the worst of mankind: from children patrolling the streets of Beirut with guns and grenade launchers, to young soldiers valiantly sacrificing their lives to save their comrades. Drawing on his personal diaries and letters, Malone gives a unique and revealing insight into the life of an ordinary Irish soldier. He writes about the trauma of leaving his wife and children behind, the boredom of The Curragh Camp and the unspeakable horror he witnessed in Lebanon.
The Waiting Hillside
Martin Malone's first collection was one of the three winners in the Straid Poetry Collection Awards
This Cruel Station
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After Kafra
An award-winning novelist, playwright and short fiction writer, Martin Malone also served six tour as a peacekeeper in the Middle East. This tough story of the returned soldier, fitting into the rubric of post-conflict literature, has been described by The Independent as, "Powerful, truthful and harrowing." This is its 2nd edition.
The Only Glow of the Day
Grounded in historical fact, Martin Malone's elegant prose shines a light of harsh reality on Rosanna Doyle, hopeful of a happy future as she travels to see her man at an army camp.
