The Independent (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
... and the new that powers some of the most provocative fiction in Ireland today. Interestingly, as Alan Glynn's Winterland comprehensively proves, it's crime fiction that throws up some of the most incisive evocations of this protean city.
Crime Always Pays (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Good news for Alan Glynn, people – the movie based on his debut novel, DARK FIELDS, is up and running again. The project was to have starred Shia LaBeouf, but that didn’t happen after LaBeouf broke his arm, but now it’s green lights for filming to start next spring, with Bradley Cooper (The Hangover, The A-Team) playing the lead in a tale that is being described as...
Reading matters (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Fiction - paperback; Faber and Faber; 480 pages; 2009. Review copy courtesy of the publisher. I love Irish literary fiction and I'm quite partial to the odd crime novel, so when I first heard that Alan Glynn's Winterland was described as "Dublin noir" I knew I'd probably enjoy it. I was right. This is a cracking story, brilliantly told and incredibly entertaining, and I bet...
Crime Always Pays (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
A couple of very nice reviews for Alan Glynn’s forthcoming WINTERLAND this weekend, with the Irish Independent proclaiming it, “A brilliant Dublin noir thriller by a writer with real international potential.” Nice. Not to be outdone, the Irish Times drafted in John Boyne to review WINTERLAND, who gave it the full half-page treatment and concluded thusly: “WINTERLAND...
The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
... said honor: • The Lovers , by John Connolly (Hodder & Stoughton) • Winterland , by Alan Glynn (Faber and Faber) • All the Dead Voices , by Declan Hughes (John Murray) • Dark Times in the City , by Gene Kerrigan (Harvill Secker) • Fifty Grand , by Adrian McKinty (Henry Holt) • The Twelve , by Stuart Neville (Harvill Secker) Burke will announce the...
Crime Always Pays (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
There was an interesting piece on Irish crime fiction from Fintan O’Toole (right) in yesterday’s Irish Times , in which he referenced Declan Hughes, Gene Kerrigan and Alan Glynn as exemplars of ‘the nearest thing we have to a realist literature adequate to capturing the nature of contemporary society …’. The gist runneth thusly: “It is striking that...
Crime Always Pays (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
... … And while we’re on the subject of nice blokes, there was a marvellous turn-out for Alan Glynn’s WINTERLAND launch at Dubray Books last Tuesday night, which was cunningly timed to coincide with the official turning on of the Christmas lights on Grafton Street. Among the writerly types in attendance were Declan Hughes, Peter Murphy, Professor Ian Ross, Cormac Millar,...
Crime Always Pays (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
... That’s next Monday taken care of. Onwards then to Tuesday evening, November 17th, when Alan Glynn will be launching WINTERLAND at Dubray Books, Grafton Street, Dublin, with kick-off around 6.30pm. W (do single-title books qualify for abbreviation') is a terrific novel, both contemporary and prescient, and a classic crime novel in the way it links conventional, street-level criminality...
Metro.co.uk (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Book review: Glynn takes a powerful swing at the greed and corruption that did for the Celtic Tiger in this hardhitting page-turner you'll want to devour in one sitting.
Best Movies 2008 (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The Hangover star Bradley Cooper is now set to replace Shia LaBeouf in Neil Burger's (The Illusionist) upcoming thriller, Dark Fields. The film is an adaptation of the Alan Glynn book of the same name, and will feature a script by eclectic screenwriter, Leslie Dixon (The Thomas Crowne Affair, Mrs. Doubtfire, Hairspray). The film is among many projects Cooper has signed on for post-Hangover...
/Film (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The Hangover star Bradley Cooper is now set to replace Shia LaBeouf in Neil Burger's (The Illusionist) upcoming thriller, Dark Fields. The film is an adaptation of the Alan Glynn book of the same name, and will feature a script by eclectic screenwriter, Leslie Dixon (The Thomas Crowne Affair, Mrs. Doubtfire, Hairspray). The film is among many projects Cooper has signed on for post-Hangover...
FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Over a year of go it looked like Steven Spielberg's favorite surrogate son, Mr. LaBeouf, was going to take on the lead role in The Illusionist director Neil Burger's adaptation of the novel Dark Fields, written by Alan Glynn, first published back in 2002. But today Relativity Media announced it will begin production on the thriller with Bradley Cooper (The Hangover) starring as Eddie,...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Winterland , by Alan Glynn (Faber, £12.99) Irish writer Glynn's second novel is a heavyweight, grown-up thriller set in Dublin against a background of dirty politics and even dirtier business dealings. As the landscape is reinvented as a glittering monument to capitalism, morality is sacrificed to profit. When two men with the same name and from the same family die on the...
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The future Faceman may have lost the chance to fly as the Emerald Knight, but DC isn't the only place you can gain superpowers. You can also score them from top secret pharmaceuticals! (Don't try this at home, kids.) According to The Hollywood Reporter , Bradley Cooper is set to star in Dark Fields , a thriller directed by Neil Burger and based on the book by Alan Glynn. Cooper will...
The Screening Log (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
... That's when strange forces begin to haunt him. "Dark Fields" is based on the novel by Alan Glynn, and Neil Burger ("The Illusionist") is directing the film from a screenplay by Leslie Dixon. Shooting will kick off early next year. Cooper, who is currently onscreen in " New York, I Love You ," will soon be seen in the role of Face in "The A-Team."...
