Philip McGrath

Tyrone Fallon is a boxer. He is a contender. Tyrone is the local boy; he is meeting "King" Billy Mason for the British Featherweight crown. Trufax is a tough Yorkshire town and the locals are rooting for their boy against the title holder. But there is another person in the ring with Tyrone - his dead father, and the weight of his past. Tyrone is fighting more than Billy Mason; he is fighting his own ghosts, his own demons... Set in the tough world of professional boxing, this is a sensitive and profound examination of one man`s life, centred around just one fight... During his boxing career, Philip McGrath fought two men who later fought for the World Feather Weight Title - Floyd Robertson and Rafui King. While at light weight, in a...

Charlie O`Malley is an alcoholic former professional boxer, tormented by his wasted talent and sleeping rough in a disused railway station in Yorkshire, sustained only by the memory of Diamond O`Malley, his inspirational father. One night in 1985, two old friends track him down, two men he met while in prison in Leeds twenty years before, Ron Wrightson and Reggie Molloy. They had come to respect O`Malley`s judgement and intuition, and now want him to be involved in a bank job they are planning, hoping to use O`Malley`s talents as `the Analyst` to good effect. It`s up to O`Malley to assess the robbery they are planning. But Ron and Reggie seem too relaxed and complacent for O`Malley`s liking. He must find out what`s really going on and...

Дата выхода: январь 2010

Charlie O`Malley has struggled all his life to win his father`s approval. Life in the slums holds its own code of honour, which all the slum dwellers must abide by. He has one chance to prove his worth to his dying father. Can he win his father`s respect and love before it`s too late?

Дата выхода: январь 2006