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
The Electric Michelangelo is Sarah Hall’s second novel and was a Booker short-listed novel in 2004. Her first, Haweswater, won the 2003 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book, the Betty Trask Award and the Lakeland Book Prize for Arts
‘Fire smoulders, it burns, it rages, it purges and purifies; it engenders great passion and it destroys. You were named for fire, Ellen Rua.’ Widowed during the Great Irish Famine, Ellen ‘Rua’ O’Malley escapes to Boston
Between 1845 and 1850, more than a million Irish people starved to death. Another half-million were evicted from their homes during the potato blight, and a further million-and-a-half emigrated to America, Britain and Australia. The Naming of Eliza
Irish directors such as Jim Sheridan and Neil Jordan are feted and celebrated world-wide. But Brian Desmond Hurst, Ireland’s most prolific film director, has been all but forgotten. A flamboyant bon viveur and
Like journalists, photographers are chroniclers of our time, cataloguing events with images and words, capturing moments that would otherwise be lost in time. We’ve all seen this sort of book before, representing the brand of Irish shamrock and
This novel is essentially about “ending up”, in particular the winter years of the inhabitants of Tuppenny-Hapenny Cottage. The Cottage is a gloomy isolated house occupied by a bunch of oldies thrown together by fate and a lack of options. Bernard –
It is with reluctance that I tell you anything about this story. Ideally I would say “go out, buy it, read it, I think you may very well like it”.
But if I have to tell you anything I’ll tell you how it all begins.
Blue skies, green grass, a picnic
Deadlier Than The Male – subtitled Ireland’s Female Killers – outlines sixteen cases of murder in Ireland committed by women. The first murder was committed just after the famine and the most recent three years ago. In many
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