Sometimes the most fascinating literary crimes are the ones that happen for real. Forget the cult of celebrity and Hello magazine, nothing grabs the public attention faster than real-life murder. Even more so if at first it appears to be motiveless
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
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
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
Things aren’t going well for Ella Nesbit. Due to staff shortages she’s having to man a reception desk rather than work at the sound engineering job she loves; Justin, an unbearable new trainee, is throwing his weight around, and she’s got a major
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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
This edition of Good Behaviour belongs to a newly reissued catalogue of Molly Keane’s work to coincide with the centenary of her birth. The introductions to three of them – Good Behaviour, Loving and Giving and Time After Time – are written
Before I started reading/reviewing these books, Anne Willan was unfamiliar to me but, as soon as they arrived, her name started to crop up in my reading with increasing regularity. An American
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
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
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