Donal Ryan shares a few words about his new book, Heart, be at Peace. Heart, be at Peace is its own book, and a different story, but its voices will be familiar to people who have read The Spinning Heart. When I wrote that novel in 2010 I didn’t really expect that anyone would ever read it. My main literary ambition was to finish two novels, and to keep them as evidence that I was, for a while at least, …
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Test Kitchen is a darkly funny and often macabre story about the culture of food, of dining and eating, about feeding and nourishing, about mothers, mortality and magic. Stories are …
Commissario Guido Brunetti returns with a gripping case about the murkiness of power and a test of loyalties in A Refiner’s Fire, by Donna Leon. She shares a few words …
Someone in the Attic is about Dublin born Julia and Gabe, who move back to Ireland from the US for reasons they don’t like to discuss. They’re settling into a …
Award-winning writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romantic tale of young lovers on the lam in 1890s Montana. He shares a few words …
Sometimes, in a city, on a particularly hot day, it feels almost certain that your life is about to utterly change. If you turn a street corner, strike up a …
Caoilinn Hughes’ new novel explores the bonds of sisterhood and the ways those bonds can be tested. Read on… The novel follows four Irish sisters, all in their thirties, who …
She was an innocent-faced porcelain doll in the window of a junk shop, with beautiful hair that you felt a strange compulsion to brush – but as you brushed, she …
Catherine Prasifka, shares a few words on her new book, This is How You Remember It. When I think back over the significant moments of my life, the internet is …
Growing up without a sense of a shared identity or community can be profoundly isolating and lonely. This book arose from that disconnect, fuelled by a deep desire to connect …
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