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
The key advisor to the American President has just been murdered in Cairo, there are no witnesses, no motive – the last word heard was FIREBIRD. Sammy Rashid is assigned the hopeless task of finding Adam Ibram’s killers, the case has political implications
When Carlo Wolff opened his review of The Five People You Meet in Heaven with the words “How many ways can you define ‘superficial’?” he had no idea what he started. You see, Wolff was a freelance journalist commissioned
This is the story of postwar Japan, as seen through the eyes of Masuji Ono, a retired artist. Ono is proud of his rise to a man of stature and influence in pre-war Japan. He recounts his struggle to become a famous artist; through
Evie Kinsella has a hectic life. Single mother to her four-year-old daughter, Holly and working in a job she loathes to support them both, a visit to her friend Monique in France is just what the doctor ordered. Envisaging a week of fun and no responsibility
In Eating with the Angels, Sarah-Kate Lynch has put reviewers in a bit of a pickle. The story, which starts off with New York Times restaurant reviewer Connie Farrell en route to Venice for her second honeymoon – but without her husband, takes
Manchester band Dystopia have just broken into the big time. In the space of six months they have leaped from a broken-down Transit tour of the English midlands to First Class flights en route to their first, already sold-out, gig in Los Vegas. Everything
Jack Reacher is an ex-military cop who, ever since leaving the army, has drifted from one place to the next with no fixed abode, no main purpose and no destination. He is a dyed in the wool American hero, battle-hardened, footloose, sexy and compassionate, and the last
Kelpie is struggling against the elements. Battling against wind and rain he manages to defy nature and reach the shore with his precious cargo intact. Ashley Naughton leaves Tempest, a popular Dublin nightspot run by Vinnie York. Although she somehow
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