‘Dream Brother’ is a biography of two talented and troubled men who died tragically young. Jeff Buckley was just 30 years old when he drowned in the Mississippi while in Memphis working on the follow-up to his critically acclaimed debut album ‘Grace’
Kathleen lives alone in a basement flat in London, a successful career woman on the verge of 50. Her promiscuity – she calls it ‘availability’ – results in occasional sexual relationships that are hollow, thankless and fruitless
In recent years, the book market has been flooded with Oriental tomes detailing life in pre-Revolution China. Works like ‘Memoirs of a Geisha’ and ‘Wild Swans’ painted portraits of Chinese womanhood that gripped the west and pushed
With an unerring eye for the tragic absurdity of the human condition, Self parades an array of mentally unhinged characters past the reader. Leaving us always with the knowledge that the brink of insanity is not that far from what passes for normality.
Gerard Donovan’s second novel continues his themes of exploring complex human issues. In it, a family are torn apart because of grief, poverty and dependence on prescription drugs. The first part – ‘Sunless’ – is actually the second
Rachel Beckett has spent the last twelve years in prison convicted of her husband’s murder, which she swears she did not commit. Upon her release she discovers that after years spent in foster care, her 17-year-old daughter Amy does not want to know her
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
Coming back from New Zealand, I keep getting told that “staying in is the new going out” and this would seem to be borne out by the publication of both Darina Allen’s Easy Entertaining and her daughter-in-law Rachel Allen’s Favourite
Dan Brown became a publishing phenomenon last year with his fourth novel, The Da Vinci Code. A quasi-religious conspiracy thriller, it was an entertaining read that moved along at a whip-cracking pace. So far, that book has sold more than 7.5m copies – you can’t
Elena leads a pretty normal life. She’s a solicitor, she has an accountant boyfriend and she shares a flat with her two best friends. In fact the only unusual thing in her life is probably her name (her mother had a passion for Russian ice-skating). So when her
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