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Paul Kearney

Born

in County Antrim, Ireland

January 01, 1967

Genre

Science Fiction & Fantasy, History, Historical Fiction

Influences

Tolkien, CS Lewis, Patrick O Brian. Rosemary Sutcliff, Mary Renault

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Paul Kearney was born in rural County Antrim, Ireland, in 1967. His father was a butcher, and his mother was a nurse. He rode horses, had lots of cousins, and cut turf and baled hay. He often smelled of cowshit.

He grew up through the worst of the 'Troubles' in Northern Ireland, a time when bombs and gunfire were part of every healthy young boy's adolescence. He developed an unhealthy interest in firearms and Blowing Things Up - but what growing boy hasn't?

By some fluke of fate he managed to get to Oxford University, and studied Old Norse, Anglo-Saxon and Middle English.

He began writing books because he had no other choice. His first, written at aged sixteen, was a magnificent epic, influenced heavily by James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Robert ...more

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Paul Kearney's Blog: The humdrum life of a workaday author

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Been a long time

I've done quite a few jobs in this world, many of them menial, physically demanding and borderline exploitative- some downright dangerous. (I was a soldier once, a long time ago). To this day, writing is for me the most challenging task, or vocation, or job I've undertaken, to the point where I gave it up for periods and just slaved away (relatively) happily on a minimum wage, allowing my mind to Read more of this blog post »

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Average rating: 3.87 · 18,582 ratings · 1,354 reviews · 47 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Ten Thousand (The Macht #1) 3.80 avg rating — 3,726 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hawkwood's Voyage (The Monarchies of God, #1) 3.78 avg rating — 2,071 ratings — published 1995 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Corvus (The Macht, #2) 3.93 avg rating — 1,853 ratings — published 2010 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kings of Morning (The Macht, #3) 4.02 avg rating — 1,275 ratings — published 2012 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wolf in the Attic (Anna Francis, #1) 3.87 avg rating — 1,289 ratings — published 2016 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hawkwood and the Kings (Monarchies of God, #1-2) 3.94 avg rating — 1,249 ratings — published 2010 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Heretic Kings (The Monarchies of God, #2) 3.92 avg rating — 1,117 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Iron Wars (The Monarchies of God, #3) 4.01 avg rating — 1,057 ratings — published 1996	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Second Empire (The Monarchies of God #4) 3.97 avg rating — 969 ratings — published 2000 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Century of the Soldier (The Monarchies of God #3-5) 4.05 avg rating — 787 ratings — published 2010 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I have found that there are two ways of dealing with men. Either you treat them with respect, or you kill them. Anything in between merely breeds resentment and the desire for revenge.”
― PAUL KEARNEY

tags: psycology, respect, revenge

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“Places ain't home. People is. Bricks and chairs is nothing.”
― Paul Kearney, The Wolf in the Attic

tags: home

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“It must be terrible to be old, when you love someone who died young. They never change in your mind, and every day you see yourself grow away from that person you were when you loved and knew them. Until you are more of a shadow than they are, and the girl you were is altogether gone, more dead even than that young man on the battlefield.”
― Paul Kearney, The Wolf in the Attic

tags: grief, loss, love

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Polls

New Year Group Read! Let's kick 2017 off with a bang!

The Dragon's Path by Daniel Abraham

7 votes, 28.0%

The Mirror’s Truth by Michael R. Fletcher

5 votes, 20.0%

Half a King by Joe Abercrombie

4 votes, 16.0%

The Judging Eye by R. Scott Bakker

3 votes, 12.0%

Hawkwood's Voyage by Paul Kearney

2 votes, 8.0%

Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake

2 votes, 8.0%

The Grey Bastards by Jonathan French

1 vote, 4.0%

The Grim Company by Luke Scull

1 vote, 4.0%

The Gap Into Conflict: The Real Story by Stephen R. Donaldson

0 votes, 0.0%

Shadow Of The Wolf by Chris Carlsen

0 votes, 0.0%

Heroes Die by Matthew Woodring Stover

0 votes, 0.0%

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