Eoin mcnamee grew up near a workhouse very similar to the one featured in the navigator. Eoin mcnamee is an awardwinning author of novels for adults. The story begins with an engaging description of the town and countryside, which establishes the. Robert mcnamee phone, address, background info whitepages. Discount prices on books by graham mcnamee, including titles like panda cha cha tastic. Its literally a battle against time, where the resistors fight to keep time ticking, and the terrible harsh fight to turn the clock back to primal solitude. Mcnamee resurrection man, for adults makes his ya debut with an inventive time travel story. Powells is an independent bookstore based in portland, oregon. Read the actionpacked book, the navigator and play the navigator harsh standoff game. Browse author series lists, sequels, pseudonyms, synopses, book covers, ratings and awards. When owen meets a short, uniformed stranger, his peaceful, isolated life in a rural town changes into something else altogether. If your goal is smaller, this version of the art of war may still be helpful. The navigator is the first book in the navigator trilogy by eoin mcnamee. The navigator and city of time by eoin mcnamee the navigator summary.
Adult author eoin mcnamee pens an intermittently exciting variation on an archetypal fantasy theme for his first childrens book. Discover book depositorys huge selection of eoin mcnamee books online. He talks about his book and his thoughts on 7 stages production of the navigator at the goat farm arts center. Created by random house view on random house share. The author currently lives in ireland with his wife and two children, owen and kathleen.
In this, his brilliant and shocking debut novel, eoin mcnamee announced his arrival as one of the leading chroniclers of irelands fractured past. Graham mcnamee books list of books by graham mcnamee. Victor kelly is the resurrection man, a violent and ruthless protestant killer roaming the streets of belfast in the 1970s. To view a demo of our eedition click the image on the left. And did we mention that his book the blue tango is one of presenter pauls favourites. Follow eoin mcnamee and explore their bibliography from s eoin mcnamee author page. Buy a cheap copy of the navigator book by clive cussler. Mcnamee talks to students about his latest book, why he became a. In the navigator, irish author eoin mcnamee has done a gutsy thing he has written a new fantasy for middle grade readers that is not a trilogy. Mcnamee believes that the business is about, and will always be about, their customer. When irish writer eoin mcnamees brother hauled down a cardboard box full of yellow and battered childrens books from the attic, he didnt. The seriess readers will rejoice at meeting favorites from previous books, while mcnamee provides new and predictably unconventional.
A few words with the navigator author eoin mcnamee. Abducted on his way to a new school and brought to a world under our earth, danny caulfield joins the student body at the wilson school for spies and discovers he is the long sought fifth on a team of baddies determined to take over the upper world. Eoin mcnamee is also the author of resurrection man, the ultras, 12. Eoin mcnamee 1961 in kilkeel, county down, northern ireland is a writer of novels and screenplays. We serve to advance the calling of the navigators by publishing lifechanging products that are biblically rooted, culturally relevant and highly practical. An adventure tale combining fantasy, medieval romance, science fiction and world war ii movies. Ive long been a fan of gregory mcnamees work, but blue mountains far away is a specific step up into the arena of the best available. Whitepages people search is the most trusted directory.
How the book ended was a bit disappointing though, i. Owen is a boy who has lost his father forever, and whose mother has been suffering from a deep depression ever since. Buy the navigator by eoin mcnamee from waterstones today. He joins the resistersa group that has opposed for centuries the attempts of the coldwielding, seductive harsh to reverse time and wipe out all life but their own.
Longlisted for the man booker prize in 2001 for his book the blue tango, eoin mcnamees cv includes books about the troubles. Discover the latest in the edge chronicles and the far flung adventure series. Shirley kelly, interview with eoin mcnamee books ireland, sept. A boy named owen finds out that a mysterious entity, the harsh, is making time go backward. Owen, the unknowing navigator of the title, is a typical loner until he witnesses a dark flash across the sky. We seek out works for clearthinking, disciplined followers of christ who are looking to grow spiritually. The navigator is the first book in an epic adventure series. Mcnamee carries the reader across the familiar furnace of the great american desert, a place often associated with nothingness but made vibrant by his reports from the field. View phone numbers, addresses, public records, background check reports and possible arrest records for robert mcnamee. Eoin mcnamee is a writer, known for an bronntanas 2014, an bronntanas 2014 and i want you 1998. Eoin mcnamee is the author of adult noir works of factbased fiction, including resurrection man, the blue tango, and 12. Who the harsh are, where the resisters came from, how it all works none of this is really explained. Time can only be set right when the resisters vanquish their ancient enemies, the harsh.
An editor, publishing consultant, and photographer, he is also the author of 30 books, most recently moveable feasts. Paris, 31st august 1997, which examine the murky criminal patches of northern ireland as well as the corridors of power, as in the lastnamed. The expertise and service at mcnamee goes beyond design and plants. The navigator is a book to be enjoyed just as it is, presenting a complete and fascinating foray that simultaneously enthralls and inspires. Eoin mcnamees novels include resurrection man, later made into a film, the blue tango, which was longlisted for the booker prize, and orchid blue, described by john burnside in the guardian as not only into a political novel of the highest order but also that rare phenomenon, a genuinely tragic work of art. Powells books the worlds largest independent bookstore. Mcnamee was awarded a macaulay fellowship for irish literature in 1990, after his 1989 novella the last of deeds raven arts press, dublin, was shortlisted for the 1989 irish timesaer lingus award for irish literature. Owen discovers he has a role to play in the fight, like his father before him.
The navigator, by irish author eoin mcnamee, is a fantastical book of challenges and courage. Time flows backwards, and the world and family he knew disappear. The kind people at the desk turn it down when i ask, and we start the interview again. Latest news cool summers begin at frontier community college. This is the first childrens book by eoin mcnamee, the northern irish writer of political thrillers who is best known for his debut novel, resurrection man, set amid the violence of. We use cookies to give you the best possible experience. Eoin mcnamee might have been predestined to write a novel about the murder of 19yearold pearl gamble after a dance at an orange hall in newry, co down.
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