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	The Richmond Review, Book Review, Grace Notes by Bernard MacLaverty
		The book opens with her attending the funeral of her father in her home town in Northern Ireland then returning to Glasgow in panic filled dread to the baby daughter that is both a trigger for her depression and her eventual saviour.
		MacLaverty's text is made of bite sized, staccato sentences of short, quiet authority that build brick by brick, link by link tightening amidst gloriously naturalistic dialogue.
		As a whole MacLaverty's narrative captures the survival of Catherine and comes as close as anyone has done to creating musical shapes on the page without ever sparing us the bleakness that waxs and wanes inside Catherine's head.
	www.richmondreview.co.uk /books/gracenot.html (444 words)

	Bernard MacLaverty - Books From Scotland
		Bernard MacLaverty was born in Belfast where he lived until 1975 when he moved, with his wife and four children, to Scotland.
		Bernard MacLaverty is also a member of Aosdana, an affiliation of creative artists in Ireland.
		Bernard MacLaverty has lived in Scotland almost as long as he lived in Ireland and has been a full-time writer since 1981.
	www.booksfromscotland.com /Authors/Bernard-MacLaverty (564 words)

	Bernard MacLaverty
		Bernard Mac Laverty was born in 1942 in Belfast.
		MacLaverty began to write at the age of 19, as something to do "after the dot disappeared on the TV set." His breakthrough came in 1977 with a collection of short stories: "Secrets and Other Stories".
		Bernard MacLaverty renders both sides of the equation: Catherine's feminist and aesthetic striving and her mother's more traditional grasp; it's hard not to sympathize with Mrs.
	www.englisch.schule.de /cal/Laverty.htm (1228 words)

	Powell's Books - Matters of Life & Death: And Other Stories by Bernard Maclaverty
		MacLaverty's tales are poised and beautifully balanced, outward yet intimate, graced by both subtlety and substance.— The Independent
		A new book from Bernard MacLaverty is a cause for celebration, but Matters of Life and Death is more than that.
		MacLaverty's perfect attention to every detail, every nuance of idiom and character, remakes the world for us here on the page.
	www.powells.com /biblio/039305716x (405 words)

	Bernard MacLaverty - Award Winning Writer
		Bernard MacLaverty, the Irish writer living in the West End has been on my list for a while and also fell into the 'by popular choice category.' However, this award winning author of books such as 'Grace Notes', 'Lamb' and 'Cal' was initially reluctant to be interviewed.
		Their home is very welcoming and we enjoyed our tea and angel cake - Jim and Bernard had a bit of a chat about music and Bernard admitted to being in a skiffle band as a young man. He is a great communicator and proud of his work and achievements.
		Bernard has been taken to the heart of the writing community in the West End, despite being warned to watch out for Scottish writers: "who scratched each others backs - with dirks", and he has found his co-creators to be supportive, helpful and encouraging to younger writers.
	www.glasgowwestend.co.uk /people/bernard.html (1269 words)

	Bernard MacLaverty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Bernard MacLaverty, the Irish writer living in the West End has been on my list for a while and also fell into the 'by popular choice category.' However, this award winning author of books such as 'Grace Notes', 'Lamb' and 'Cal' was initially reluctant to be interviewed.
		Bernard has been taken to the heart of the writing community in the West End, despite being warned to watch out for Scottish writers: "who scratched each others backs - with dirks", and he has found his co-creators to be supportive, helpful and encouraging to younger writers.
		MacLaverty believes the civil war in Northern Ireland is similar to the one in the Palestinian territories.
	www.heilmile.de /2/englisch/sek2/ni/maclaverty.html (1493 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| Review: The Anatomy School by Bernard MacLaverty
		With the notable exception of Catherine McKenna, the composer of the much-acclaimed Grace Notes, MacLaverty's characters tend to be young, sensitive, intelligent males, whose personal tragedy it is to be young, sensitive, intelligent, male, and living in the north of Ireland.
		Martin is a real MacLaverty boy, both self-absorbed and oversolicitous, the type who'll raise his hand in class to answer a question "even if he hadn't a baldy notion", just to relieve the silence.
		MacLaverty, the poet of awkwardness, is also the master of polite hostility, always attendant to little conversational agonies and non sequiturs: "I don't know about the rest of you," grins Mary Lawless at one point, "but some of the happiest moments of my life have been spent doing jigsaw puzzles."
	books.guardian.co.uk /reviews/generalfiction/0,6121,590546,00.html (642 words)

	Alibris: Bernard MacLaverty
		He chooses to go on the dole rather than work in a slaughterhouse which nauseates him, and he must choose whether to brood alone on his past or plan a future with Marcella, a widow whose grief Cal is partly...
		In his first novel since "Cal", MacLaverty presents a compact, luminous, and altogether masterful portrait of a woman composer and the complex interplay between her life and her art.
		MacLaverty's first novel is about an Irish priest who rescues an epileptic boy from a reformatory.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Bernard_MacLaverty (303 words)

	The Anatomy School by Bernard MacLaverty, ISBN 0393050521 And Sapphire's Grave by Hilda Gurley-Highgate, ISBN 0385503237 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Set In Belfast in the lat esixties, Bernard MacLaverty's latest novel takes us into Martin Brennan's final semester of high school, whn he finds old friendships tested and is forced to face the unknown future.
		With characteristic "wise humor" (Publishers Weely), MacLaverty "moves beyond the cloistered realm of school to capture the rhythms and pressures of provincial life, as well as [Martin's] desire to overcome them." (Denver Post).
		MacLaverty has a wider vision, greater depth and technical crft than J. Salinger, a more subtle style than William Goldign and a moral imagination to match that of James Joyce" ([Toronto] Globe and Mail).
	www.supercreepsvideo.com /anatomy.htm (398 words)

	Bernard MacLaverty - Die Schule der Anatomie - Perlentaucher.de, Kultur und Literatur Online
		Bernard MacLavertys Roman "Die Schule der Anatomie" hat Rezensent Thomas Hermann recht gut gefallen.
		Es gehöre jedoch zum Zauber von MacLavertys Roman, lobt Hermann, dass er alle möglichen Klischeeklippen umschiffe und in eine stimmige Romanze steuere.
		MacLaverty schafft es, die "glorreiche Zeit der Schulpflichtigkeit" wieder auferstehen zu lassen, lobt Franke, unterstützt von der tadellosen Arbeit des Übersetzers Hans-Christian Oeser, der dafür "ausdrücklich" zu loben sei.
	www.perlentaucher.de /buch/13523.html (519 words)

	boekverslag Cal door Bernard MacLaverty \| scholieren.com
		Bernard MacLaverty was born in Belfast in 1942.
		His wife grew up in the borderdistrict in the south of Country Derry, between Ulster and the Irish republic, the area where ‘Cal’ is situated.
		Bernard MacLaverty has gotten to me though with this novel.
	www.scholieren.com /boekverslagen/451 (1274 words)

	An Interview With Bernard MacLaverty by Dave Hernandes
		Bernard MacLaverty has published four novels and five collections of short stories.
		You begin in darkness, in a way very much like the ‘bye-child' [a poem by Seamus Heaney which was subsequently made into a short BAFTA award-winning film by Bernard MacLaverty].
		A local writer I liked was Michael MacLaverty (no relation), a writer of short stories and novels.
	www.barcelonareview.com /56/e_int.htm (7175 words)

	Bernard MacLaverty: A Trusted Neighbour. A Short Story plus interview
		Bernard MacLaverty was born in Belfast in 1942 and lived there until 1975 when he moved to Scotland with his wife, Madeline, and four children.
		He has been a Medical Laboratory Technician, a mature student, a teacher of English and, for two years in the mid-eighties, Writer-in-Residence at the University of Aberdeen.
		Two other collections, The Great Profundo and Walking The Dog were followed by his third novel, Grace Notes, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2003, and also awarded the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year.
	www.barcelonareview.com /56/e_bm.htm (4697 words)

	Bernard MacLaverty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Bernard MacLaverty was born in Belfast, Ireland in 1942.
		Following his graduation from Queen's MacLaverty moved to Scotland where he began his literary career.
		MacLaverty has continued writing to this day, and he has been awarded several prizes such as having his novel Grace Notes shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
	alumni.imsa.edu /~paulb/irish/literature/maclaverty.html (88 words)

	Bernard MacLaverty - Penguin Books Authors - Penguin Books
		Bernard Mac Laverty was born in Belfast in 1942.
		Bernard Mac Laverty's work has won numerous awards and has been consistently well reviewed.
		The New Statesman described Lamb as having 'the gently quickening pace of the best thrillers and the remorselessness of tragedy', and the Spectator said of Cal: 'Mr Mac Laverty describes the sad, straitened, passionate lives of his characters with tremendously moving skill'.
	www.penguin.ca /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000009515,00.html (188 words)

	Edinburgh Student Newspaper : Entertainment : Bernard MacLaverty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		BERNARD MACLAVERTY, former hospital technician and one-time Booker Prize nominee, has a gleeful sense of his own failings.
		What you have to remember is that MacLaverty the Writer was a late-developer, and his sympathies lie with the near-strangled.
		Though he describes Northern Ireland as “a source of endless misery,” MacLaverty’s writing is a hilarious mixture of pathos, bathos and surrealism.
	www.studentnewspaper.org /view_article.php?article_id=20031118120614 (232 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Andrew Bonner had been an admirer of Bernard MacLaverty's writing for many years, so when Seamus Heaney gave him permission to adapt the poem into a short film, he knew who would be first choice to write the screenplay.
		It was only much later that Bernard revealed to Andrew that the Bye-Child poem had been an important source for his work on the novel and screenplay of Cal, one of his most acclaimed works.
		So Bernard was keen to make the short film come to life: it had always been a story that fascinated and appealed to him.
	www.byechildfilm.com /making.aspx (1786 words)

	ANQ: Names in Bernard MacLaverty's Cal: etymology, onomastics, and irony. (Notes).@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		ANQ: Names in Bernard MacLaverty's Cal: etymology, onomastics, and irony.
		Names in Bernard MacLaverty's Cal: etymology, onomastics, and irony.
		Not enough attention has been given to the names of the major characters in Cal, Bernard MacLaverty's highly praised 1983 novel about the "Troubles" in Northern Ireland.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:94539844&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (158 words)

	BBC NI Learning - Writing Home website - profile of Bernard MacLaverty
		Peter Curran, Belfast-born writer, broadcaster and documentary maker writes about his favourite writer Bernard MacLaverty.
		This Belfast man, Bernard MacLaverty, is up there with the greats like Raymond Carver and John Steinbeck.
		MacLaverty uses words with beautiful precision and his understated style has made him accessible to readers from Nairobi to Norway - as well as Northern Ireland.
	bbc.co.uk /northernireland/learning/getwritingni/wh_maclaverty.shtml (240 words)

	Bublos.com, Books ›› Cal, by Bernard MacLaverty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		As their relationship grows, so do Cal's guilt and sorrow, until, in the end, he is forced to make a sacrifice of himself in order to gain redemption.
		Bernard MacLaverty's Cal is perhaps on of the saddest books of the last 20 years.
		MacLaverty seems to see the happenings in a rather pessimistic way without any thoughts concerning their origins.
	www.bublos.com /isbn/0393313328.html (1773 words)

	Grace Notes
		Bernard MacLaverty brings us into the life of Catherine McKenna—estranged daughter, vexed lover, new mother, and musician making her mark in a male-dominated field.
		On the remote island of Islay she struggles for her artistic life in the midst of a relationship gone dangerously wrong.
		Like the town was under a canopy of dark noise.” Though her fellow Catholics see the drums as instruments of threat, Catherine is determined to integrate them into her composition.
	book.awardannals.com /detail/022404429X (915 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Grace Notes: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Bernard MacLaverty renders both sides of the equation: Catherine's feminist and aesthetic striving and her mother's more traditional grasp--it's hard not to sympathize with Mrs McKenna's impatient rejoinder, "You don't cope with music, you listen to it."
		This book is compelling and deeply moving and will be enjoyed by all who require that their fiction sweep them up and take them on an all consuming emotional journey.
		MacLaverty's ability to render music audible through the written word, even to those of us who had never before heard of a grace note, is quite remarkable.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0099778017 (875 words)

	The Anatomy School by MacLaverty, Bernard at Biblio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Set in Belfast in the late sixties, Bernard MacLaverty's new novel takes us into Martin Brennan's last semester of high school, when he finds old friendships tested and is forced to face the unknown.
		Celebrating the desire to speak and the need to say nothing, The Anatomy School moves from the enforced silence of Martin's Catholic school retreat, through the hilarious tea-and-biscuits repartee of his eccentric elders, to the awkward wit and loose profanity of his two friends—the charismatic Kavanagh and the subversive Blaise Foley.
		MacLaverty has a wider vision, greater depth and technical craft than J. Salinger, a more subtle style than William Golding and a moral imagination to match that of James Joyce" ([Toronto] Globe and Mail).
	www.biblio.com /books/isbnnu/27397460.html (449 words)

	The Guilt of the Protagnoist in 'Cal' by Bernard Maclaverty
		The Guilt of the Protagnoist in 'Cal' by Bernard Maclaverty
		Coursework and Essays: By Level: A2 and A-Level: Literature: The Guilt of the Protagnoist in 'Cal' by Bernard Maclavert
		Below is a short sample of the essay "The Guilt of the Protagnoist in 'Cal' by Bernard Maclaverty".
	www.coursework.info /i/932.html (515 words)

	Northern Ireland - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		For years, he was wont to tell the tale during late-night drinking matches, and after one particularly heavy-duty night of partying, he awoke to find a bet scrawled pillowside: a...
		First published in 1983, this lyrical novel, superficially straightforward but full of stories within stories, first brought Bernard MacLaverty's work to public attention.
		In the novel, a young Irish Republican Army operative who wants to break the cycle of violence seeks out a woman whose Ulster...
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /northern_ireland.htm (2833 words)

	AbeBooks: Search Results - Bernard Maclaverty and Walking The Dog
		Some of the dialogue is exhanged in the uneventful context of daily life, such as an understated tea-time conflict between an adolescent and his pious grandparents ("Compensations") or a middle-aged couple's holiday examination of their static relationship ("At the Beach").
		Under the tone-perfect slang and the inflection of small talk are the visible outlines of these characters' buried lives, their moving connections and dislocations.
		Always one to deliver the unexpected, MacLaverty also intrudes his alter ego, referred to as "your man," whose droll observations eerily animate the 10 short vignettes that alternate with the nine stories in this provocative collection.
	www.abebooks.co.uk /search/sortby/3/an/Bernard+Maclaverty+/tn/+Walking+The+Dog (1689 words)

	Cal by Bernard MacLaverty Detailed Book Review
		Cal's bind is complicated by his burgeoning love for the widow of the man his friend murdered."
		"The story "CAL" by Bernard Mac Laverty takes place in Northern Ireland (Ulster).
		The young Irishman Cal lives alone with his father Shamie (both are Catholics) in a town near Belfast in which mainly Protestants live.
	www.allreaders.com /Topics/info_22032.asp (551 words)

	Bernard MacLaverty
		Bernard MacLaverty was born in Belfast in 1942, and moved to Scotland in 1975, where he lived in Edinburgh, on the Isle of Islay, and now in Glasgow.
		After leaving school he became a Medical Laboratory Technician, later studying at Queen's University, Belfast and becoming an English teacher.
		He has also written 2 books for young children: A Man in Search of a Pet (1978), which he also illustrated; and Andrew McAndrew (1988).
	www.contemporarywriters.com /authors/?p=auth568941520eaca27D88LwO2B42E76 (544 words)

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