{"id":244,"date":"2018-03-15T16:20:11","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T16:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghpress.com\/shop\/?post_type=product&#038;p=244"},"modified":"2025-12-18T17:58:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T17:58:45","slug":"once-upon-a-time-in-the-north-west","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/ghpress.com\/shop\/product\/once-upon-a-time-in-the-north-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Once Upon a Time in the North West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Garbhan Downey<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The death of a well-connected Irish newspaper publisher triggers a clandestine hunt to recover his memoirs. The Americans, concerned that Se\u00e1n Madden\u2019s private record of the past century will jar with the official account, need to get their hands on it before the British and Irish. But Madden\u2019s hard-nosed granddaughter, heir to the North West Chronicle, has her own interests to protect as well.<\/p>\n<p>This pulsating page-turner takes the reader on an epic journey of war and peace, love and loss, politics and criminality right across the twentieth century. Every secret has its season, and all Se\u00e1n Madden\u2019s \u2013 and all of Derry\u2019s \u2013 are in danger of being laid bare.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Praise for Garbhan Downey\u2019s work<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A master stylist \u2026 Dammit, you can almost taste the steam off the pages. <em>Modern Woman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Irresistibly funny. <em>Irish News<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Acidic, humorous \u2013 he is an expert at the narrative rabbit punch. <em>The Irish Mail on Sunday<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Fast-paced, outlandish and funny. <em>Sunday Business Post<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A superb blend of comedy, political dirty tricks, grisly murder and bizarre twists! <em>Sunday World<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Three words \u2013 brilliant, brilliant, brilliant! <em>County Times<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It shocks you one minute, has you laughing out loud the next and ultimately is impossible to put down. <em>Ulster Tatler<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Expect a literary smack in the mouth. <em>Derry News<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A rollicking yarn. Read it before Downey goes galloping off in another direction. The Novel of the Year.<em> Eamonn McCann, Derry Journal<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garbhan Downey The death of a well-connected Irish newspaper publisher triggers a clandestine hunt to recover his memoirs. The Americans, concerned that Se\u00e1n Madden\u2019s private record of the past century will jar with the official account, need to get their hands on it before the British and Irish. But Madden\u2019s hard-nosed granddaughter, heir to the<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link\">\n\t\t\t\t <a href=\"https:\/\/ghpress.com\/shop\/product\/once-upon-a-time-in-the-north-west\/\" class=\"link-btn\"><span>Continue Reading <\/span> <i class=\"icofont-thin-double-right\"><\/i><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":342,"template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[641,76],"product_tag":[91,99,158,198,102,199,159],"class_list":{"0":"post-244","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-crime","7":"product_cat-fiction-and-literary","8":"product_tag-book","9":"product_tag-books","10":"product_tag-north","11":"product_tag-once","12":"product_tag-time","13":"product_tag-upon","14":"product_tag-west","15":"product_shipping_class-small-books","17":"first","18":"outofstock","19":"purchasable","20":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghpress.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghpress.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghpress.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghpress.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghpress.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghpress.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghpress.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghpress.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}