Royal Ulster Constabulary

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...

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...

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...