Voices from a Journal Naughton, Bill €12.99 - now €6.49 Half price save €6.50 ISBN: 1 901866 59 9 Format: Size: Publication Date: November 2000 Physical Copy (supplied by Lilliput Press) Add to Basket View Shopping Basket

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Foreword by Brendan Kennelly

This is a writer's journal of his friendships, encounters and observations during the 1950s and 60s, describing relationships with Cork author Frank O'Connor, Patrick Kavanagh, Charles Cape (onetime governor of Strangeways Prison) and the remarkable Margaret Radford, baglady and acquaintance of Shaw, Lawrence and Ford Madox Ford, with her vivid experiences of the Great War. Peopled by the colourful characters met in his profession, Naughton also gives an intimate portrait of a marriage and the onset of death as he survives a coronary thrombosis. Limpid, candid and tellingly written, it delineates the struggles and triumphs of a migrant Irish writer living in the English provinces, with sharp insights into human behaviour.

Bill Naughton (1910-1992) was born in Ballyhaunis, Co. Mayo and moved to Bolton, Lancashire aged four, where he remained the rest of his life. He is best known for his novel Alfie which became a classic film of the 1960s and for plays such as Spring and Port Wine. He has written short stories, novels (On the Pig's Back) and children's books and three volumes of autobiography, the last entitled Neither Use nor Ornament is in Allison & Busby's Twentieth Century Classics series.