(Published by Bantam)
Sometimes life is like a bad waiter – it serves you exactly what you don’t want. The women of Freesia Court have come together at life’s table, fully convinced that there is nothing good coffee, delectable desserts, and a
Trish has a pressing problem – her husband Adrian is slowly losing his mind. Convinced he is the next James Joyce, his obsession with his writing and his novel which he is sure will win the Booker Prize are taking their toll on Trish. Bobby was deliriously
Terry Dolan, if you’ve never heard him discussing Hiberno-English on Newstalk radio, is the Associate Professor of English at University College Dublin. Affable on the radio and in person (he taught me in UCD), he’s an
Writing in the author’s note at the beginning of this republished collection, Yann Martel sets out what he tried to achieve with these writings: “A story must [also] stimulate the mind if it does not want to fade from memory
Together, these twelve short stories by Irish author Eugene McCabe form a book full of people who – for a variety of reasons – feel they’d be better off dead than living the lives they lead. Right from the start McCabe turfs the reader
Before Nantucket became the tourist mecca of rich mansions and designer shops we know today, whaling was its main business. In 1819, with whale oil prices climbing, this small island village more than twenty miles out into the Atlantic was on
Cindy and Jack meet at a party. Good looking, successful and carefree, they fall in love and survive all the usual tests of a relationship including his ex-wife, a cross-country move. But suddenly Cindy is diagnosed with a terminal illness, placing her on
What a great idea. Get real women (2400 of them) to test beauty products, report back on them and publish the details of the ones that work. Beauty and health editors Josephine Fairley and Sarah Stacey got 240 panels of ten women
In Kathy Reichs’s fifth novel, the setting shifts from the familiar American and Canadian soil to a Guatemalan village, the site of a political massacre during that country’s bloody civil war that took the lives of thousands between 1962 and 1996. An international
Gram Parsons is the patron saint of Americana and, like all the best patron saints, he had the good grace to live fast and die young in a spectacular way in 1973. Gram Parsons: God’s Own Singer is a biography of the musician by Australian
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