Book Review: Making cross-border connections make an adventurous life-story for Tarka King

"In what, considering his Monaghan background, must have been a great and tragic irony for King, he became very familiar with Sefton, one of the horses that survived the June 1982 Hyde Park IRA bomb in which three soldiers were killed and a fourth died later"

Tarka King is the author of 'An Irishman Abroad: Growing Up With Unity and Division in an Anglo-Irish Family'.

• An Irishman Abroad: Growing Up With Unity and Division in an Anglo-Irish Family
• Tarka King
• Unicorn, hb £30