Carlo's piece for LookListen is called “The Good and Bad Brother”. Following on from his memoir, 'Father and I', this work is part of the 'Family Notes' series and centres around the relationship of Adolf and Hermann Gébler.

Carlo Gébler was born in Dublin and brought up in London. He studied English at the University of York and the practice of film-making at the National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield. He was born to the writers Edna O’Brien and Ernest Gébler in Dublin in 1954. He moved to London with his mother in 1958. His novels include The Eleventh Summer (London, Hamish Hamilton/New York, Dutton 1985); August in July (Hamish Hamilton, 1986); Work and Play (Hamish Hamilton/ New York, Fireside, 1987); Malachy and His Family (Hamish Hamilton, 1990); Life of a Drum (Hamish Hamilton, 1991); The Cure (Hamish Hamilton/New York, Little, Brown & Co. 1994); W.9. & Other Lives (Belfast, Lagan Press 1996/ London & New York, Marion Boyars, 1998); How To Murder a Man (London, Little, Brown & Co. 1998/New York, Marion Boyars Ltd 1999). In 2000 he published an autobiography, Father and I: a memoir. In 2008 he co-authored My Father's Watch: The Story of a Child Prisoner in 70s Britain with Patrick Maguire.

He lives outside Eniskillen in Northern Ireland and teaches creative writing at the Oscar Wilde Centre in Trinity College and also HMP Maghaberry, where he is writer-in-residence.

Photo of Carlo by David Barker.