When I started working for Dubray, my friends encouraged me to set up a book club. Apparently I was now “an expert” (their words, not mine) in all things literary. …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
What does a bookseller do when they are not in their natural habitat, the bookshop? Well, this bookseller spends a large chunk of their time off reading. The only downside …
Paperbacks have been around Europe since the 17th century but initially they were expensive and available only to the few. They became more widely accessible with the invention of the …
If you’re anything like me, you must be very excited about all the witchy Irish YA books that 2019 has brought. But with so many tempting choices, where to begin? …
At the end of my last post , I was gearing up for my Camino journey, boots and guidebooks organised, and mind set firmly on putting one foot in front …