The Bass Player : Surviving the Miami Showband Massacre - Yvonne Watterson Publication Date:18/09/2025Shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards Biography of the YearStephen Travers has lived two lives. His first was as a young bass player, immersed in music, friendship, and the thrill of gigs on the road with The Miami Showband. But on July 31, 1975, that life shattered on the A1 road at Buskhill in County Down when a Loyalist gang ambushed the band, murdering three of his friends in an attack that would become one of the darkest moments of The Troubles.
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It only took one video - her famous 'Clown Girl Check' - and she suddenly found herself vibing as one of the original Hype House creators
but if it pays off he will finally have a one-way ticket out of Hawkins
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the haunting begins
scrupulously and directly communicated' Sunday TimesRead this stunning new translation of Boris Pasternak's Nobel Prize-winning masterpiece from Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Yet optimism is not reserved for times of extremity
Even murder
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author of The Woman in the Window