Dan Kavanagh was born in County Sligo in 1946. Having devoted his adolescence to truancy, venery and petty theft, he left home at seventeen and signed on as a deckhand on a Liberian tanker. After jumping ship at Montevideo, he roamed across the Americas taking a variety of jobs: he was a steer-wrestler, a waiter-on-roller-skates at a drive-in eatery in Tucson, and a bouncer in a gay bar in San Francisco. He is currently working in London at jobs he declines to specify, and lives in North Islington.

Alleged Photographs of Dan Kavanagh, London c1981

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Dan Kavanagh returns to hardback!

Orion Publishing is publishing Dan Kavanagh's four novels as hardbacks in 2014 and 2015. Orion published Duffy in April 2014, Fiddle City in August 2014, Putting the Boot In in December 2014. Going to the Dogs will be available in April 2015. Paperbacks of each title will also be available.

Read an excerpt from Duffy at the Orion website.