Ten books isn’t a bad run. Ten books might be considered a goodly series, by some, but I’ve just finished Brady’s tenth (The Coast Road), and it certainly doesn’t read like Matt Minogue’s swan song. Though there's been re-issues and Amazon kindle editions as recent as 2015, I believe The Coast Road was first published in 2010. That’s … [Read more...]
Matt Minogue, Clareman… and cracked?
John Brady's Matt Minogue hails from Clare County, Ireland. Thirty years living and working in Dublin, and married to a Dublin woman, Minogue is apparently still credited, by those who know him, and those he happens to meet along the way, with all the 'odd traits' of a Clareman. Now, having never yet been to Ireland, nor knowingly met … [Read more...]
Minogue, Magritte, Hegel and horses
Something I noticed while reading John Brady's Kaddish in Dublin … not till the first paragraph of Chapter ten, mind you… but here Minogue comments on the weather, ‘a break in the ceiling of cloud that had muffled the island for a week’: The air was fresh again. Clouds so white as to be patently silly-looking to Minogue hung themselves … [Read more...]
John Brady’s Matt Minogue
John Brady’s Matt Minogue series. Another on that ‘read, but neglected’ list. Honestly, I didn’t remember much about Matt Minogue… only that I’d considered him a candidate for this 'moody sleuth’ list I’m now getting around to recording. What I do recall of the first book, A Stone of the Heart, is that I picked it up after reading … [Read more...]