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Charles P Sharkey Author

Charles P. Sharkey worked as a criminal lawyer in Glasgow for 25 years before he turned to writing. His captivating novels of historical fiction are based on extensive research into the times and events depicted. ‘The Volunteer’ is his second novel, and is a powerful story of the Troubles that plagued Northern Ireland for almost three decades. His work also includes ‘Dark Loch’ (2014), an epic tale of the effects of the Great War on a remote crofting community on the west coast of Scotland, and ‘The Memoirs of Franz Schreiber’ (2018), which is set in interwar Berlin and captures a period of European History that has shaped the world we live in today.