Brian was recently interviewed by Mark Patterson on BBC Radio Foyle about his new novel, Preserve the Dead and why he's decided to return to teaching.

In the borderlands between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, Mark Lawson meets novelist Brian McGilloway, whose books explore the long shadows of the Troubles, and talks to him and other authors from Belfast about the wave of crime writing that the peace process has provoked.

Novelist Brian McGilloway was born and brought up in Derry, a city from which his imagination has never quite escaped.