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'T�ib�n writes prose of a heart-breaking beauty' Daily TelegraphIn the summer after the Anglo-Irish Agreement, when tension was high in Northern Ireland, Colm T�ib�n walked along the border from Derry to Newry. Bad Blood is a stark and evocative account of this journey through fear and hatred, and a report on ordinary life and the legacy of history in a bleak and desolate landscape. T�ib�n describes the rituals - the marches, the funerals, the demonstrations - observed by both communities along the border, and listens to the stories which haunt both sides. With sympathy and insight Bad Blood captures the intimacy of life along one of the most contested strips of land in Western Europe. 'T�ib�n has the narrative poise of Brian Moore and the patient eye for domestic detail of John McGahern, but he is very much his own man' Observer 'High-class reportage . . . T�ib�n was conscientious about talking to real people, not just "names" with a good line in TV chat, and went to see and hear and sense things at a local, grassroots level' Irish Times (less)

'T�ib�n writes prose of a heart-breaking beauty' Daily TelegraphIn the summer after the Anglo-Irish Agreement, when tension was high in Northern Ireland, Colm T�ib�n walked along the border from Derry to Newry. Bad Blood is a stark (…more)