Royal Ulster Constabulary

SH dates his first, ignorant, encounter with history from the time that as a very small child he met American soldiers who were stationed nearby and training for the imminent Normandy landings of June 1944...

SH began writing journalism early in his career. He published articles in The Listener about the incident on 5 October 1968 in which peaceful marchers were attacked by members of the RUC . He reviewed...

For this novel Johnston employs a staccato style with lavish use of often abrupt dialogue, with the effect of longer paragraphs coming as a surprise. Helen's husband has been killed as a bystander to sectarian...