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  1. Public Bookmark 22

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    Eoin and Paddy reunite in Cyprus. There's something different about Paddy.

    or: vampire paddy.

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    06 Sep 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 67

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    Word has spread through the camp, and the survivors have begun to stagger out of the barracks, needing to see it with their own eyes. No one has come out of this room, though, and Paddy does not understand why until he walks in and sees the colour of the inverted triangles sewn across their chests.

     

    In 1945, Paddy Mayne is involved in the Allied liberation of Bergen-Belsen.

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    29 Jun 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 35

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    Paddy rested his forehead against Eoin’s. “Somethin’ tells me you will be the death of me, Eoin McGonigal.”

    “If that is to be the case, I promise to make yer dyin’ worthwhile.”

     

    OR: Eoin McGonigal inherits his late uncle's remote estate and quickly becomes enamored with his cankerous gamekeeper, Paddy Mayne.

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    16 May 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 18

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    He found, to his surprise, that he actually missed the sight of Bill Stirling slouching towards him across war-torn villages, his face like a thundercloud. He missed their sparring, missed the brief, bright flare of true companionship between them and the promise it had held. Which was perhaps why, when Bill wrote to him at the Ayrshire camp, a letter sent from his estate barely thirty miles away, Paddy took the letter to a private place and read it carefully. And then, almost without meaning to, he wrote back.

     

    Bill and Paddy strike up an unlikely correspondence in Scotland which survives the war and lasts for years. As their friendship strengthens and deepens, as it teeters on the dangerous edge of something more, they help each other through difficult times and hard decisions and realisations about who they truly are, until, in the end, they find their way back where they belong.

    With each other.

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    30 Apr 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 23

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    Eve Monsour had been the one to tell Augustin the news. She had cornered him and Paddy one smokey evening, where they were sitting in a back corner of the Empire Club in Cairo, their collars loose around their necks and a healthy dose of drink in their hands. Augustin remembers, with almost painful sharpness, the precise way Paddy’s knee had been pressed against the side of his own, hidden underneath the table.

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    04 Apr 2025

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