Glenn Patterson

Glenn Patterson is a Northern Irish novelist and screenwriter from Belfast who is one of the most important voices in contemporary Irish literature. Delorean tells the remarkable true story of John DeLorean's doomed car factory in West Belfast in the early 1980s, a story that combined American business ambition, Cold War politics, Northern Irish sectarian conflict and one of the most spectacular corporate collapses of the twentieth century. Patterson brings the eye of a novelist to this extraordinary real-life drama, capturing the hopes, absurdities and ultimate tragedy of a venture that promised to transform one of Europe's most troubled communities. He is the author of numerous novels set in Belfast, including Burning Your Own and The International, and has co-written screenplays including Good Vibrations. His audiobooks and books offer readers vivid, intelligent and deeply felt accounts of life in Northern Ireland.