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- ↑ Fantastic fiction: http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/peter-cunningham/
- ↑ The Sea and the Silence
- ↑ The Taoiseach
- ↑ Capital Sins
- ↑ La Mer et le silence
- ↑ Dictionary of Literary Biography: http://www.bookrags.com/biography/peter-cunningham-dlb/3.html
