Upperdown
David Brennan’s debut novel is a dark reimagining of ‘The Pied Piper of Hamelin’.
Things in the town of Upperdown are not as they seem. The Professor struggles with his devotion to proving the Riemann Hypothesis and he walks the streets seeking a solution whilst battling his own deeper preoccupations.
The appearance of a stranger in town, the Piano Man, leads to the resolution of the rat infestation but when the town’s children start to go missing it is clear something darker has been set in motion.
David Brennan
David currently resides between Ireland and Asia. He has been nominated for the Hennessy New Irish Writer Award 2019. He was one of the winners of the Irish Novel Fair 2018. In 2016 he won the Frank O’Connor Mentorship Bursary Award and has been shortlisted for the Bristol Short Story award (2017), the Fish Memoire award (2018) and the Doolin Short Story award (2016). He was longlisted for the Colm Tobin Award (2017).