peadar o guilin

The Invasion by Peadar O Guilin

THE CALL - PEADAR O'GUILIN This novel, for me, wins novel of the year, hands down and by a long margin. And I'm much relieved because I hate reading books by friends and not liking them. At first glance, I did have a frisson of on-no. The book is in first person, present, a tense I struggle...

The island of Ireland has been sealed off from the rest of the world by a mystical barrier. Technology cannot penetrate it. The people of Ireland, the division between north and south no longer mattering, are under constant attack. Every teenager is "Called", summoned to another realm where they...

The Inferior Peadar O Guilin David Fickling (Ranom House), Jun 2008, $16.99 ISBN: 9780385751452 Survival of the fittest is understood by Stopmouth and his tribe; either kill or be someone else’s meal; although his people expect him to be fodder because his stupidity makes them believe Stopmouth...

A tribe of humans lives in a vast, crumbling city in the midst of a forested land. No-one knows who built the city or why. The Tribe survives by hunting hostile species for food, or trading flesh with more neutrally-aligned races. When a hunter becomes too wounded or too elderly to endure, they...