Upperdown

David Brennan won the Frank O'Connor Mentorship Bursary Award in 2016 and in 2017 he was longlisted for the Colm Tobin Award. He was one of the winners of the Irish Novel Fair in 2018 with his debut novel, Upperdown, which was published by époque press in June 2019. David lives and writes in China.

'David Brennan’s clever Irish debut presents a deeply unsettling world...Upperdown is a liminal, transgressive place where malevolent forces are at work both externally and within the mind of the protagonist.'The Irish Times