Leigh Bardugo is already well-established as a writer of teen and young adult fiction. Now she is setting out to take the world of adult fiction by storm with Ninth …
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Lucy Sweeney Byrne is a writer of short stories, essays and poetry. Her work has appeared in Banshee, The Stinging Fly, The Dublin Review, Grist, and the anthology Stinging Fly Stories (2018). From Greystones, …
Sophie White’s first book Recipes for a Nervous Breakdown, part-memoir/part-cookery book, was published in 2016. Mother of Pod, the successful podcast she hosts with Jen O’Dwyer, was launched in January 2018 …
Over the years, I have read many of Iris Murdoch’s twenty-six novels. But I still remember the one that drew me in, that led me down the path of excitedly …
With every book I read there’s always a take-away on some level. It’s like slipping inside another person’s skin to experience highs and lows that in real life would probably …
The World Cup is approaching fast — Schmidt is about to get real! In the unlikely event that I don’t make the squad as a back-up for Johnny Sexton, I’m …
In this guest post, author Niall Williams discusses the inspiration for his new novel, This Is Happiness. I am not the kind of writer who works out in advance what …
I don’t recall when I first started paying attention to the names of translators. Maybe it was when I read Blindness, by José Saramago. Saramago strips punctuation to commas and …
If you are a fan of The Heart’s Invisible Furies, A Little Life, or even Harry Potter, you will love The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt. That means that pretty much …
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