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“... they married. In one of the pseudonymously offered novels under review, Julian Barnes writes as ‘Dan Kavanagh’, having recently married Pat Kavanagh, the literary agent, who is the dedicatee of Duffy. Harder to crack is the pseudonymous code of Michael Crichton, the omnicompetent ‘movelist’. (He is author of The ...”

“... of the satiric ‘Greek Street’ columns written for the New Review back in the Seventies, and as Dan Kavanagh, author of the ‘Duffy’ crime novels of the Eighties, which come complete with their own arch little author biographies (‘Dan Kavanagh was born in County Sligo in 1946. Having devoted his adolescence ...”

“... who stows away aboard the Ark, or of the private eye Duffy in the crime novels he publishes as ‘Dan Kavanagh’), thus effectively wrecking the parallel, which it is part of Barnes’s scheme to draw, between Braithwaite and the shy and bumbling Charles Bovary. In Cross Channel Barnes observes the rules of style indirect libre a good deal more ...”

“... the culpably ambivalent original work. Altogether, it’s a rather odd chip off the old block. Dan Kavanagh’s ‘Duffy’ series, of which Putting the boot in is the third, gets better and better. This time round the bisexual (but heterosexually inhibited) private eye is involved in the seedy world of Third Division football, investigating what ...”

“... the essay much as Duffy – the hero of his entertaining potboilers written under the pseudonym ‘Dan Kavanagh’ – treated women and men. For Duffy, ‘randy’ after a hard day’s Soho pavement-pounding, ‘the choice between trawling for a man and trawling for a woman . . . was like choosing between bacon and egg and bacon and tomato. Whichever you ...”

“... and the books they produced are undistinguished. Tom Barry’s Guerrilla Days in Ireland and Dan Breen’s My Fight for Irish Freedom have their charms, but there was no Herzen or Trotsky capable of distilling the Irish revolutionary mentality and experience into a classic memoir: except for Ernie O’Malley. O’Malley was one of the most celebrated of ...”