Virginia Woolf is one of those authors who, unfortunately, has a reputation for intimidating readers. Having been a massive fan of her since I was a teenager, I thought I …
Category: Fiction
One of my favourite aspects of children’s literature is the way that the unbelievable and impossible become believable and possible. Take for example The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh …
Of course there are plenty of books I have never read, but the ones staring down from my bookshelves really bug me. At some stage I paid good money for …
Imagery and a sense of place are extremely important and add to the full enjoyment of a good novel. These contribute to the proper immersion of the reader within the …
While it may seem unusual to most people to want to be scared when already feeling uneasy, the horror genre has become a place of intrigue rather than fear to …
As a history geek, I have always been fascinated by anything related to the First World War. This includes literature that focuses on the War and the experience of the …
I became a child again while writing Tatty. A child from the age of four to fourteen. At least that’s what I tried to do, physically and mentally. I started …
The first gay book I remember reading was Life Mask by Emma Donoghue. I was fourteen or so, and I found it in Dubray’s Rathmines branch. It was there in …
Recently I have found myself returning to my comfort reads because of everything going on in the world. Be it committing to a reread or merely flipping through, I cannot …
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