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
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
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
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
Hermann Hesse was a German novelist, poet, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946. He is most famous for his novels Steppenwolf and Das Glasperlenspiel (The Glass Bead Game). Gertrude is I believe a lesser lauded and read novel, it is none
Harriet Turner works in the family business, a travel company specializing in themed tours. The business, set up by her parents, is based in a small coastal town in Australia and is now run by Harriet’s brother James and his wife Melissa. Harriet has had
Gigi and The Cat are two novellas from the French novelist Colette. Gigi is a 15 year old girl born into a family of what were high class Parisian courtesans (“We never marry in our family”). She is looked after by her grandmother
I’ve been a fan of Nigella’s writing since Nigel Slater (my other favourite cookery writer) gave his readers a tip-off about her first cookery book How To Eat. In fact, How To Eat was so beloved in our house that both I and
Cathy Scarlet has always dreamt of setting up her own catering company. The daughter of a cleaner and a compulsive gambler nothing has ever come easy to her. Marriage to Neil Harrington, a successful lawyer (whose mother Mrs Scarlet cleans for) was also an upward battle
Irish Film Censorship: A Cultural Journey from Silent Cinema to Internet Pornography by Kevin Rockett
(Published by Four Courts Press)
If you’ve seen the 1973 film The Exorcist in recent years, everything from the dodgy make-up to the piano wire that elevates Linda Blair’s possessed body looks dated and
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