- Published: 12 September 2013
- ISBN: 9781448169771
- Imprint: Transworld Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 352
The Convictions of John Delahunt
- Published: 12 September 2013
- ISBN: 9781448169771
- Imprint: Transworld Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 352
Compelling and eerily authentic . . . Read it and be grateful to be alive in our day and age.
ROBERT GODDARD
Unputdownable . . . chillingly portrayed . . . a highly sophisticated first novel.
CHARLES PALLISER, author of The Quincunx
A quite exceptional novel . . . The world he creates has echoes of Kafka and Orwell . . . totally convincing. It draws you in like a trap.
C. J. SANSOM, author of Dissolution and Winter in Madrid
A dark, original story wrapped in a wonderful gothic gloom . . . it's a tough act to pull off, but Andrew Hughes manages it with brio. I heard echoes of James Hogg and Robert Louis Stevenson.
ANDREW TAYLOR, author of The American Boy and The Scent of Death
Reminiscent of John Banville's The Book of Evidence . . . a bracing, lurid tale that is as engrossing as it is chilling.
Declan Burke, IRISH INDEPENDENT
A vivid piece of writing . . . brings to mind Andrew Miller’s Costa-winning novel, Pure.
IRISH TIMES
Extraordinarily detailed world, impeccably researched . . . so superbly written that it soars as a masterly work of fiction . . . utterly compelling.
Dermot Bolger, IRISH MAIL ON SUNDAY
An intriguing debut (that) sets out Hughes as one to watch.
SUNDAY TIMES IRELAND
A skilfully planned, elegantly written debut . . . a riveting read.
SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
Stupendous: a brilliant achievement for a first novel, completely compelling and with a perfectly damaged central character.
MANDA SCOTT
Told in the voice of its oddly detached protagonist, this is a memorable novel - a chilling story of a man gradually losing all sense of what makes life worth living.
Sunday Times, Culture magazine
This dark gem... The knowledgable Andrew Hughes carefully recreates a truly grim time, seemingly stripped of morals, and one where a brutal end lurks on each street.
Sunday Sport
With its polished prose, vivid period feel and debauched protagonist, this assured first novel will be relished by fans of literary crime and historical fiction alike.
Irish Times
The story is not for the faint of heart, but for those who love being thrilled, gripped by an unputdownable book, and who loves reading about the dark side of life, then this is the book for them. This chilling novel is amazing and I loved every page. Simply fabulous.
Historical Novel Review
ghastly, riveting tale.
Entertainment Weekly
At once a close character study and a sweeping panorama of the era of 'dissectionists', who buy bodies for medical research and the 'resurectionists' who dig them up, this fascinating book is a stirring work of fiction and a perceptive chapter in Ireland's social history.
The New York Times Book Review