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Crime writer Anthony J Quinn tells why he's drawn to the border

Interest in the border isn't just a recent phenomenon – since its creation almost a century ago it has rarely been out of the news or the consciousness of people who live near it and cross it. With a new crime book set around on border published this month, novelist Anthony Quinn writes of its peculiar pull

Tyrone author Anthony Quinn: "I’ve grown to love intensely this bleak tract of the Ulster landscape on my doorstep" Picture: Mal McCann.
Anthony J Quinn
GROWING up along the border during the Troubles, I wanted to run away but somehow I’ve remained rooted to the spot, living now at the edge of the Tyrone farm that I was born on. During my mid[...]

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