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Brian Moore


Ireland (1921 - 1999)

aka Michael Bryan, Bernard Mara

Brian Moore was a novelist. His Christian name is pronounced in Irish (Bree-an). He was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1975 and the inaugural Sunday Express Book of the Year award in 1987, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times and also worked as a screenwriter. His distinctively simple, lucid style gives his works a highly powerful effect. He remains possibly the only novelist to encapsulate life in Northern Ireland in the post-war era, including his exploration of the intercommunal divisions of The Troubles. He also demonstrated an unusual male insight into female psychology, with women as the central narrative character in several of his books.
 
 
Novels
   The Executioners (1951)
   Wreath for a Redhead (1951)
     aka Sailor's Leave
   French for Murder (1954) (as by Bernard Mara)
   A Bullet for My Lady (1955) (as by Bernard Mara)
   The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1955)
   This Gun for Gloria (1956) (as by Bernard Mara)
   The Feast of Lupercal (1957)
   Murder in Majorca (1957) (as by Michael Bryan)
   Intent to Kill (1958) (as by Michael Bryan)
   The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1960)
   An Answer from Limbo (1963)
   The Emperor of Ice-Cream (1965)
   I am Mary Dunne (1966)
   Fergus (1970)
   The Revolution Script (1971)
   Catholics (1972)
   The Great Victorian Collection (1975)
   The Doctor's Wife (1976)
   The Mangan Inheritance (1979)
   The Temptation of Eileen Hughes (1981)
   Cold Heaven (1983)
   Black Robe (1985)
   The Colour of Blood (1987)
   Lies of Silence (1990)
   The Statement (1995)
   No Other Life (1997)
   The Magician's Wife (1997)
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Anthologies containing stories by Brian Moore
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Great Irish Tales of Horror (1995)
A Treasury of Fear
edited by
Peter Haining

More anthologies 


Awards
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction Best Book winner (1975) : The Great Victorian Collection
Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1976) : The Doctor's Wife
Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1987) : The Colour of Blood
Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1990) : Lies of Silence


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