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The Paradise Ghetto

21 November 2016 By Fergus O'Connell

If you are going to write a novel about the Holocaust you have both a responsibility and a challenge. The responsibility is to the six million who were murdered. If you are bringing the Holocaust into your work merely to add some extra tragedy or to tug at the reader’s heartstrings then, at best what […]

The Picture Tells the Story

1 July 2015 By Fergus O'Connell

In 2002 my first novel, Call The Swallow, was published. Set before, during and after the Holocaust, it tells the story of a man’s search for his sister who disappeared during World War II. When I was on the publicity round for the book, the question that kept cropping up again and again was how […]

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