Paul Larkin is a Manchester-born Irish journalist, now based in Donegal, who worked for five years in the Danish Merchant Navy before taking a degree in Scandinavian and Celtic Studies. He later trained as a film director with the BBC. He had a long career in journalism and filmmaking before returning to Scandinavian languages and fiction as a translator, critic, and author.
His latest work is the novel 'Éilis from the Flats'.
His seminal book 'A Very British Jihad', published in 2004, was among the first exposés on collusion between the British Government and loyalist paramilitaries. You can see more of his work at Astonishment Rocks.
Paul Larkin reviews Anatomy of a Killing: Life and Death on a Divided Island by Ian Cobain.