Bad Blood
A Walk Along the Irish Border
$24.00
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
16 September 2025
Summary
Follow Colm Tóibín’s lone religious pilgrimage along the Irish border during the tumultuous summer of 1987. In the summer after the Anglo-Irish Agreement, when tension was high in Northern Ireland, Colm Tóibín walked along the border from Derry to Newry. Bad Blood is a stark and evocative account of this journey through fear and hatred, and a report on ordinary life and the legacy of history in a bleak and desolate landscape.
Tóibín describes the rituals - the marches, the fu…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781035054862 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1035054868 |
| Author: | Colm Tóibín |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 16 September 2025 |
| Weight: | 148g |
| Dimensions: | 14mm x 131mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Picador Collection |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
Tóibín writes prose of a heart-breaking beauty. * Daily Telegraph *
Tóibín has the narrative poise of Brian Moore and the patient eye for domestic detail of John McGahern, but he is very much his own man. * Observer *
High-class reportage … Tóibín was conscientious about talking to real people, not just “names” with a good line in TV chat, and went to see and hear and sense things at a local, grassroots level. * Irish Times *
Colm Tóibín
Colm Tóibín was born in Ireland in 1955. He is the author of eleven novels, including The Master, Brooklyn, and The Magician, and two collections of stories. He has been three times shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In 2021, he was awarded the David Cohen Prize for Literature. Tóibín was appointed the Laureate for Irish Fiction 2022-2024.
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