Michael Magee Books In Order

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Publication Order of Poetry Books

Michael Magee is an Irish published author. He also goes by the name Michael Nolan.

He was born in West Belfast in May of 1990, where he grew up. His family was Republican. He went to the Christian brothers school at Andersonstown. He then studied at Liverpool John Moores University, then attended the Queen’s University Belfast where he graduated with a PhD in the subject of creative writing.

Michael’s first novel released was his self-published book The Blame. He released it under Michael Nolan from Salt Publishing in 2014. He would follow this up with Close to Home in 2023, published through Hamish Hamilton. The book was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. It also won in its category in the Nero Book Awards and was selected as the Irish Book of the Year by Waterstones.

Close to Home was reviewed as ‘staggeringly humane’.

Michael is a fiction editor for The Tangerine, a literary magazine based out of Belfast, and helped launch it in 2016. He has had his writing be published in such places as The Stinging Fly, Winter Papers, The Lifeboat, and The 32: An Anthology of Irish Working-Class Writing.

The Blame is the self-published novel from Michael Magee under Michael Nolan. This story is about a drug dealer who wants to make up for a friend’s death. However, he faces enough threat in his daily life that he may find himself being executed before he is able to make things better.

Close to Home is a novel from Michael Magee. If you have been looking for an original story to follow along with, check this one out!

Main character Sean is growing up in the West Belfast area and is having a decent time of it. He does all of the things that he is supposed to do. He is a hard worker, he puts his mind to his studies, and he does his best to stay out of getting into trouble.

He knows that the thirty-year conflict has ended, and it appears that he has a lot of things to look forward to. Sean heads off to university, but when he gets back, he has to deal with what he is returning to. Many of his friends are still going to the clubs and doing gear.

There are still the same fathers that are mad and the lost brothers. The same doors remain closed and the same silences remain. There are not many jobs and the degree that Sean has earned from university is barely worth the amount of the paper that it has been printed on.

No one will even really pay attention to him and he’s finding that it’s not going to automatically bring him work. He goes out one night to a party and assaults a stranger, an event which sets into motion various different events that result in everything starting to come completely undone.

With one act of violence and a dedication to authenticity, this is a picture of Ireland’s working class contending with the Troubles. An interesting read form Michael Magee that you will not be able to put down!