Mickey Collins

Mickey Collins has committed a crime. A big crime.

Rather than hear a biased account, why not listen to how and why it happened straight from the horse’s mouth? In this case the horse is Mickey and once his mouth starts talking there is no stopping it.

You’ve never heard a story like Mickey’s tale.

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Available in Hardback, Paperback, Kindle and Audio (Audible, Amazon, Apple Books)

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Some feedback:

“extraordinary… a remarkably human and humane book… the milieu is wholly convincing… all through the book there are instances, delicately written and almost unnoticed, of instinctive human goodness in the exchanges between characters… Sentence after sentence I could hear the deep music of the city I grew up in, and if that were the book’s only achievement it would be a signal achievement.”
“It’s a very fine book”
Theo Dorgan, Poet, Author, Essayist, Translator, Literary Authority from the city in which Mickey Collins is set.

Check out Theo’s Foreword to Mickey Collins here.

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"In 2020 the Booker prize was awarded to Shuggie Bain which also charts the progress of a boy from child to adult in a dangerous and damaging family and societtal milieu and I rate this novel superior to that one in some large measure."  Librarything.com 

“…awesomely original story had me laughing uncontrollably, opening my mouth in disbelief, and yearning for more unforgettable experiences with its purposefully casual, extended sentences. The novel is full of fascinatingly strange individuals, all of whom are recounted from unique viewpoints by the insightful protagonist.”
Readersfavorite.com review

“A sometimes bleak but engrossing tale of misdeeds and untrustworthy loved ones.”
Kirkusreviews.com review

“a must-read story about how a criminal evolves.”
Readersfavorite.com review

“Sad, funny and unforgettable.”
Librarything.com

Mickey Collins, son of a drug-dealer, relates his amazing tale from childhood to something approaching being an adult. The streets of Cork, Ireland, is where Mickey learns fine skills such as pre-teen drinking, shoplifting and breaking & entering. However, after Mickey disobeys his mother once too often, a lifetime of pain (or ‘adventure’ as Mickey would see it) descends upon him, as he bounces from one State service to another.

A kaleidoscopic tour through twenty years of modern Ireland’s discarded dregs of society ensues, where we discover an underworld of petty crime and passions-fulfilled to the detriment of all else − most significantly (though not exclusively) to the perpetrators themselves.

…But there is something else. As Mickey’s mother, Tanya Collins, manipulates everyone & everything whilst building her drug empire, Mickey’s navigation of his world reveals a curiously innocent and almost pure Humanity in this most unlikely of places.

Then the going gets tough.

“heartbreakingly hilarious” -David, Nenagh

“I picked this book up on a Tuesday and could not put it down… until I finished it on Thursday. For the last few pages I had a lump in my throat the whole time… …once I got to know Mickey and settled into his train of thought and how he sees the world, everything made sense.” -Catherine, nurse, avid reader

“From the first couple of pages of reading this book I just couldn’t leave it down and couldn’t wait to get a chance to have some time to catch up with what was happening next” -Tony, Cork

“The book Mickey Collins has the power to open doors in how we view and see children whose lives are blighted by loss and circumstances.”
-Tusla manager

“Walk down any street in Ireland and you will encounter plenty of Mickey Collins’s but after reading this book you’ll see them through different eyes. Enjoy!” David, social-worker

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