Bunker Book Review Episode 4
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Rise of 'Ulster Noir'
Overview of Ulster Noir On my Belfast Noir walking tour, I give out lots of recommendations and people often note many of these down. A reading group from Dublin were on the tour yesterday and asked for me to compile a list for them. I thought I would share it here on my blog too. This is by no means exhaustive, but hopefully will offer a rudimentary overview of the local scene. It includes well established writers and some who are earlier in their career. Of course it also includes many of my personal favourite books! Rise of Ulster Noir (This was following a period of 'Troubles Trash' where many books were set here but often written from afar and were not always that great) Maurice Leitch Leitch's first novel came in 1965 and he is still writing today in various disciplines. He has been awarded an MBE for services to literature. Check out Silver's City Colin Bateman Colin Bateman broke ...
...So I became a tour guide
Belfast Noir "Belfast is the most noir place on earth." Lee Child For a while I had been thinking how Belfast didn't seem to have much in the way of screen or literature tours. Of course there are Game of Thrones tours, but not much else. Thinking about the city centre out towards the south, I realised lots had been filmed there- such as Line of Duty , The Fall and the classic Film Noir Odd Man Out. Put this together with the downright explosion of Ulster Noir and local writers, I wondered why there was no tour around any of this. So I thought I' d have a go! I wrote a draft of a tour and then teamed up with local company, Belfast Hidden Tours . They had also been thinking of doing something similar. We've been developing it for six months and here we are! It's a mix of screen and books, with a heavy influence on Crime Fiction and a wee bit of true crime, with other bits and bobs thrown in. We launched last week and the hour and a half t...