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Cold Heaven (1983) The Temptation of Eileen Hughes, published in 1981, is a novel by Northern Irish - Canadian writer Brian Moore. It portrays a quiet young shop assistant from Northern Ireland and her relationship with her rich employers Bernard and Mona McAuley who take her on a trip to London . Joyce Carol Oates in The New York Times, while ...
Fergus (novel) Fergus. (novel) Fergus, a novel by Northern Irish - Canadian writer Brian Moore, was published in 1970, in the United States by Holt, Rinehart and Winston . It tells the story of Fergus Fadden, a 39-year-old Irish -born writer living in California, who is haunted by ghosts from his past, including that of his father.
Personal Life. Moore was married twice. His first marriage, in 1952, was to Jacqueline (“Jackie”) Sirois (nee Scully), a French-Canadian and fellow-journalist with whom he had a son Michael in 1953. They divorced in October 1967 and Jackie died in January 1976. Moore married his second wife, Jean Denny, in October 1967. Read more about this ...
In 1961, Moore became a football commentator and presenter on BBC Radio, and the corporation's first football correspondent in 1963. Moore, Alan Clarke and Maurice Edelston were the commentators for BBC Radio when England won the 1966 World Cup. Moore also covered the FA Cup Final from 1964 to 1967, and European Cup Winners' Cup victories for ...
The Doctor's Wife (1976) The Great Victorian Collection, published in 1975, is a fantasy novel by Northern Irish - Canadian writer Brian Moore. Set in Carmel, California, it tells the story of a man who dreams that the empty parking lot he can see from his hotel window has been transformed by the arrival of a collection of priceless Victoriana ...
The Emperor of Ice-Cream is a 1965 coming-of-age novel [1] by writer Brian Moore. Set in Belfast during the Second World War, it tells the story of 17-year-old Gavin Burke who, admitting "war was freedom, freedom from futures", defies his nationalist and Catholic family by volunteering as an air raid warden with the largely Protestant ARP. [1]
Brian Moore: The Chameleon Novelist. Denis Sampson. Doubleday Canada, 1999 - Biography & Autobiography - 344 pages. Born to a middle-class family in Belfast in 1921, Brian Moore left Ireland to work for the Allies in World War II. He was posted in Algiers, Naples and France and spent time in postwar Poland.
