Declan Varley: 4 books

Kittyland A classic and hilarious coming of age tale of college life in the Irish university town of Galway follows a group of West of Ireland students in the mid 1980s, in the days before hope and the Celtic Tiger. Follow them on their journey through three years of baked beans, debauchery, emigration,...

Nightmusic Malachy Lee is a seemingly innocuous Galway fisherman who loves Mozart and Sherlock Holmes. Noel Fogarty is an unappreciated garda who does not like playing by the rules. And bodies are being washed up from the river. Nightmusic is a fast moving thriller set against a heady Galway summer.

A rural Irish village is transfixed when anonymous lottery winner offers to fund the development of a long-delayed community centre. But the gathering of characters who are thrown together by this quirk of fortune reveal old sores that had never healed in the life of this Galway village.

Sure, It Could Happen In the summer of 1992, the Irish city of Galway was rocked by the resignation of its Catholic Bishop after it was revealed he had fathered a son with an American divorcee. And at the same time, the city's biggest industrial employer was about to shut down - Sure It Could Happen...