Mark Quinn – författare

Finding Dan is part historical fiction, part genealogical detective story. IRA man Daniel ORourke was the most dangerous man in Dungannon; Mal is his great-nephew, determined to find the real man behind the tales told by his family. This is a legend of evasion from arrest, internment on a diseased ship, and hunger strike; it is the legend too of glories on the Gaelic football pitch and a life spent on the run from the police and from the women who might have loved him. As Mals search deepens, Irelands troubled history interferes and a new legend of Dan emerges.

What does it take for today's independent retailers to survive and thrive? Retail is experiencing a massive transition. Thousands of independent retailers have been bobbing in the ocean, clinging to planks of splintered wood and struggling to stay afloat. Today, those who remain have washed ashore on a new island, and the rules have changed. But where there's life, there's hope, as long as you're willing to roll up your sleeves and do the work. In Come Back to Bed, Mark Kinsley and Mark Quinn offer strategies and principles retailers can use to forge lasting customer relationships that will weather any storm. Bring in new business and reclaim your path to success (and profits!) as you learn how to build your brand, connect with customers in a more meaningful way, drive foot traffic, and become notorious in your marketplace.

Solidarity strikes are breaking out all over Communist Poland and Soviet forces seem set for a crackdown. A small group of student activists have taken over the vice-rector's office in a Warsaw university. One is Tom, a visiting student from Belfast, whose love for a girl from Gdansk is bad for them all. Another is Alex, the journalist whose family of agitators have secrets of their own. Then there is Michalski, their enigmatic leader. Over a decade later, on the brink of a new millennium and with Putin poised to take control in the Kremlin, the friends are reunited as Michalski seeks to become his country's president. How will the decisions he took during the strike - and while awaiting exile in the Europejski hotel - affect his chances now? And Tom - with a letter and a train ticket for Gdansk in his pocket - has his own decision to make.

A car bomb explodes prematurely on the Northern Irish border, missing its intended target. Someone has passed information to the police, but who? Three childhood friends hold the key. During one long night in hospital, Frank will spin his side of the story.This is about the limits of friendship and the pasts we cannot escape for all our efforts to reinvent them. It is about football and song and the noises that stick in our ears. It is about the promise of the lives we could have and the ones we decide to settle for.