The Blame

by Michael Magee

A young drug dealer wants to make amends for the death of a friend, but will he be executed before he can turn his life around?

128 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2014

About the author

Michael Magee was born and grew up in West Belfast. He is the fiction editor of The Tangerine, and his work has appeared in Winter Papers, The Stinging Fly, and The Lifeboat, and in The 32: An Anthology of Irish Working-Class Writing. He recently received his PhD in creative writing from Queen’s University, Belfast.

In 2014, he published his first novel, The Blame, with Salt Publishing under the name Michael Nolan.

His second novel, Close to Home, was published by Hamish Hamilton in 2023.