New Town Soul

Shane is Joey’s new best friend, with a personality for every occasion and a strange sense of recklessness. Joey longs to get close to Geraldine, but she won’t have anything to do with him while Shane is around. Is Geraldine right to suspect that Shane is weaving a net of evil around them? And who is the strange old man who seems to know more about Shane than anyone? What secret will Joey unearth in a derelict house in Blackrock?

New Town Soul is a supernatural thriller in a very real world – it is about the freedom of being young and the enslavement of being immortal.

PRAISE FOR NEW TOWN SOUL

‘New Town Soul is taut, mysterious and gripping to the last word. Dermot Bolger gets under the skin of the teenage experience and explores the dark side of the teenage psyche. A beautifully crafted thriller’
Eoin Colfer, author of  the Artemis Fowl series

‘A terrific read, unsettling at times; filled with suspense, the intensity of teen relationships and soul music – at last teenagers can experience one of Ireland’s best writers’
John Boyne, author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

'Bolger, a prolific and gifted writer, breaks new ground with this novel, marking as it does his first foray into young-adult fiction. However, it will have wide appeal and does not belong exclusively in the young adult genre, such is the superb quality of its writing, insights and page turner plot....Bolger takes the reader on a rollercoaster of battles with spirits, heaps of suspense, emotional turmoil and the faintest touch of normality.' 

Angela M Cornyn, The Independent

'...an excellent, totally absorbing thriller.' The Irish Times

'...a compelling, moving and unsettling journey into the past and its ghosts...a genuinely unnerving and spine-tingling read. New Town Soul is the best supernatural teen novel since Kate Thompson's Creature Of The Night...recommended for both adult and older teen readers.' Irish Independent

 'In a very crowded market, Bolger manages to find a new and indigenous take...cleverly plotted and a page-turner.' The Dubliner

'Plenty of writers can evoke cheap thrills, but only a few can inspire the unsettling cold-water-down-the-spine feeling engendered by several scenes in this book...By turns chilling and tender, and always compulsively readable, New Town Soul is an excellent novel.'' The Irish Times

''...briskly moving narrative...an unusually strong sense of place...Bolger gives a nuanced, historically rich portrait of Blackrock.' The Irish Mail