
Writing
Bernard MacLaverty
Born
1942-09-14 (84)
Place of birth
Belfast, Ireland
Known for
Writing
Credits
6 titles
Bernard MacLaverty (born 14 September 1942) is a Northern Irish fiction writer and novelist. His novels include Cal and Grace Notes. He has written five books of short stories.
Known for
7.4Longtime retired couple Stella and Gerry realise that their relationship has reached a crossroads while on holiday in Amsterdam. After so much time and so many memories, long-held promises and deeply concealed wounds threaten to come to light and force them to confront their future.
Midwinter Break
2026
5.7Michael Lamb is a Father questioning his calling, in a Reform School in Ireland. When young epileptic runaway Eoin is sent to the school, the two recognise kindred spirits and escape to London together. With the police on their tail and the money running out however, Lamb is forced to make some terrible decisions.
Lamb
1986
6.1True account of the six men held hostage by religious extremists in Beirut during the Reagan-Bush era.
Hostages
1992
6.5A chilling depiction of a series of violent killings during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
Elephant
1989
8.0Neil's beach holiday with the Middleton family turns sour over his refusal to bathe. The situation is resolved by an old woman and a cat.
Sometime in August
1990
7.0'One of your Popes had a great thing to say once. He had been listening to some music by Palestrina with Palestrina himself. He said to him, " The law, my dear Palestrina, ought to employ your music to lead hardened criminals to repentance".'
My Dear Palestrina
1980
Behind the camera
7.4Longtime retired couple Stella and Gerry realise that their relationship has reached a crossroads while on holiday in Amsterdam. After so much time and so many memories, long-held promises and deeply concealed wounds threaten to come to light and force them to confront their future.
Midwinter Break
2026
5.7Michael Lamb is a Father questioning his calling, in a Reform School in Ireland. When young epileptic runaway Eoin is sent to the school, the two recognise kindred spirits and escape to London together. With the police on their tail and the money running out however, Lamb is forced to make some terrible decisions.
Lamb
1986
6.1True account of the six men held hostage by religious extremists in Beirut during the Reagan-Bush era.
Hostages
1992
6.5A chilling depiction of a series of violent killings during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
Elephant
1989
8.0Neil's beach holiday with the Middleton family turns sour over his refusal to bathe. The situation is resolved by an old woman and a cat.
Sometime in August
1990
7.0'One of your Popes had a great thing to say once. He had been listening to some music by Palestrina with Palestrina himself. He said to him, " The law, my dear Palestrina, ought to employ your music to lead hardened criminals to repentance".'
My Dear Palestrina
1980
