Tom Phelan in New Anthology... Read a chapter from Tom Phelan's novel Iscariot in Brandon Twenty-Five, edited by Steve MacDonogh. This anthology brings together the work of twenty-five authors in a wide-ranging, stimulating collection of some of the best of modern fiction. Published by Brandon Books.

NEW FROM TOM PHELAN...
The Canal Bridge

"Another First World War masterpiece...
An ambitious, accomplished and deeply moving contribution to Ireland's formidable corpus of fiction about the Great War."
--Irish Independent

"A powerful and deeply affecting novel."
--Books Ireland

"A masterful story...Must be ranked among the more successful of the novels dealing with the First World War."
--Irish Emigrant

"An incredibly moving story of love and friendship....From recounting childhood experiences in rural Ireland to epic battle scenes, the writing is consistently stunning."
--Irish Echo

A quarter of a million Irish men joined the British army and fought in the trenches in the First World War, and nearly fifty thousand died. Tom Phelan's gripping new novel, The Canal Bridge, tells the story of two of these men (and the women they leave behind) as they struggle to survive the abattoir that was Europe.

14.99 Euro, paperback, ISBN: 1 84351 075 8
Published by the Lilliput Press, Dublin, www.lilliputpress.ie

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Tom Phelan is the author of the acclaimed novels The Canal Bridge, In the Season of the Daisies, Iscariot, and Derrycloney. Phelan's novels have been published in four countries–the U.S., Ireland, France, and Germany–and in three languages. He has also written for Newsday and for the journal of the American Irish Historical Society. Born and raised on a farm in Strahard, Mountmellick, County Laois, in the Irish midlands, Phelan now makes his home on New York's Long Island.

In the Season of the Daisies
Tom Phelan's first novel, In the Season of the Daisies, tells of the 1921 IRA murder of a young boy and the effects on his surviving twin and on the men who witnessed the killing. In the Season of the Daisies was chosen for the "Discover Great New Writers" series sponsored by Barnes & Noble and was a finalist for the Discover Great New Writers Award.

Iscariot
Phelan's widely praised novel Iscariot is the story of an expatriate ex-priest who returns to Ireland to face the past and stumbles across the suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of a young woman.

Derrycloney
Derrycloney tells a tale of life in the Irish countryside in the 1940s. Phelan calls it his "fanfare for the common man and woman" of his childhood.

My Life As a Priest
A young priest finds himself thinking what is unthinkable for him: he no longer wants to be a priest, not if doing so means ending up like the strange men he has sworn to obey. Essay in the Recorder (Summer 2004), the journal of the American Irish Historical Society (www.aihs.org).

In the Vatican Museum
The story of Daniel Fitzpatrick, a young priest who helps a parishioner solve a moral dilemma in a unique manner. Included in The Brandon Book of Irish Short Stories (Brandon Books, 1998).

Saying Goodbye
A young Irishman living in the U.S. goes home to see his dying father. Published in Here's Me Bus (July 1995) and The Letter Box: An Anthology of Writing from County Laois (1996).

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Credits: Derrycloney: cover design by Public Communications Centre Ltd., Dublin. In the Season of the Daisies:Four Walls: cover design, David Cohen; cover photo, copyright Barry Marcus. Lilliput Press: cover design, Jarlath Hayes, cover art, "Gallowgate Guest I" by Peter Howson, Angela Flowers Gallery, London. Iscariot/Keegans Geheimnis:Schneekluth: cover design: Hauptmann & Kampa, Switzerland; cover photo (church) by Fred Stichnoth.Brandon: cover design, Public Communications Centre Ltd., Dublin. Author photo: Seamus Clarke.

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