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    Sara Baume: 'I am concerned, fundamentally, with my daily birds.'

    Reviewed: handiwork by Sara Baume

    Béibhinn Breathnach welcomes Sara Baume's invigorating self-portrait of an artist and its insight into the creative process, with reflections on grief, materiality, legacy, and most unusually, birds.

    Books • 24 Jun 20
    Hilary Fannin: her extensive experience in theatre and journalism shines through in her debut novel

    Reviewed: The Weight of Love by Hilary Fannin

    Hilary Fannin's first novel is not a conventional love story, but rather a story about love as perceived through the harsh lens of reality. Its intensity may appeal to fans of Normal People, suggests Béibhinn Breathnach...

    Books • 27 May 20
    Eoin Colfer's High Fire: a sequel will be needed, yes, that good..

    Reviewed: High Fire by Eoin Colfer

    Eoin Colfer's newest adult novel has all the charm, wit and imagination of his beloved children's fiction, writes Béibhin Breathnach.

    Books • 07 Apr 20
    Eimear McBride: Hotel novel

    Book review: Strange Hotel by Eimear McBride

    Strange Hotel explores loss, love and the nature of home through the intimate rendering of a woman's mind laid bare in a series of hotel rooms scattered around the globe.

    Culture • 13 Feb 20
    Rob Doyle: is it a bird or a plane or pieces of fiction or what?

    Reviewed: Threshold by Rob Doyle

    Béibhinn Breathnach recommends Rob Doyle's latest work, Threshold, as an ideal read for anyone who has ever felt they were not living, but merely floating along.

    Books • 24 Jan 20
    Neil Hegarty: a world of colour brilliantly evoled

    Reviewed: The Jewel by Neil Hegarty

    'Incredibly good. Incredibly vivid: the colours shine like they're on fire'. Neil Hegarty's description of the paintings of his artist Emily Sandborne equally applies in the case of the young Irish author's latest novel, writes Beibhinn Breathnach

    Books • 17 Dec 19
    Owen Dwyer: men are restricted by the glass ceiling in his novel

    Book Review: Number Games by Owen Dwyer

    Owen Dwyer's latest novel transports the reader to the near future of 2114 where women have taken power and corporatism is the prevailing mode of governance. Proceed with caution, writes Béibhinn Breathnach.

    Books • 21 Nov 19
    Vivienne Kearns: the mysteries of genealogy, somewhat reminiscent of the style of Who Do You Think You Are

    Book review: The Emerald Dress by Vivienne Kearns

    The diary of a duchess, a ghostly figure in a castle, and the heart of a weaver - a young American woman ventures to Dublin to find her own place in a 300-year-old story shrouded in mystery expertly evoked by Vivienne Kearns in her first novel.

    Books • 29 Oct 19
    Irish-American author Mary Beth Keane shatters suburban, respectable New York aspirations

    Reviewed: Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane

    In Mary Beth Keane's illuminating novel, the lives of two generations unfold effortlessly, revealing family triumphs and struggles in a poignant exploration into the depths of human emotion.

    Books • 02 Oct 19

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