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    Claudia Carroll, author of The Love Algorithm

    Book Of The Week: The Love Algorithm by Claudia Carroll

    Books • 13 Aug 22
    Eileen Dunne reviews The Perfect Lie by Jo Spain

    Eileen Dunne reviews The Perfect Lie by Jo Spain

    Books • 19 May 21
    Dr Anthony Clare in the early 1960s. (Reproduced by kind permission of Jane Clare.)

    Reviewed: Psychiatrist in the Chair - Anthony Clare

    Psychiatrist in the Chair - The Official Biography of Anthony Clare, by Brendan Kelly and Muiris Houston - documents a fascinating life in psychiatry and a prominent media profile, cut short with his untimely death at 64 in 2007.

    Books • 24 Nov 20
    Curtis Sittenfeld: who is this fictionalised account pitched at, queries Eileen Dunne

    Reviewed: Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld

    Unsettling. That's the word I've decided on after much deliberation about the effect of this novel about Hillary Rodham Clinton, declares Eileen Dunne

    Books • 11 Aug 20
    Author Peter Cunningham: a web of intrigue, love, loss and betrayal that keeps you hooked right up to the end

    Reviewed: Freedom is a Land I Cannot See

    Eileen Dunne was deeply engaged by Peter Cunninham's new novel because of its subtlety, lyricism, and the author's ability to re-create the atmosphere of fear and tension that permeated Dublin in the 1920s.

    Book Review • 30 Jun 20
    Reviewed: A Thousand Moons by Sebastian Barry

    Reviewed: A Thousand Moons by Sebastian Barry

    Eileen Dunne reviews the eagerly-anticipated new novel from the Laureate for Irish Fiction...

    Books • 23 Mar 20
    Novelist Gill Hornby: embroidering the Austen family tapestry with the portrait of an influential sister

    Reviewed: Miss Austen by Gill Hornby

    They say you should never judge a book by its cover, but let's face it, most of us do at some stage, and by that criteria, Miss Austen is a winner from the get go.

    Books • 05 Feb 20
    Marita Conlon-McKenna (Pic: Ger Woods)

    Book review: The Hungry Road by Marita Conlon-McKenna

    Eileen Dunne welcomes Marita Conlon-McKenna 's new novel, The Hungry Road which opens in June 1843, as crowds gather for the Monster Repeal Meeting in Skibbereen in West Cork, to hear Daniel O'Connell address the crowd.

    Books • 21 Jan 20
    A Matter of Interpretation - author Elizabeth MacDonald

    A Matter of Interpretation by Elizabeth MacDonald

    Michael Scot (1175-1232) was a revered mathematician and scholar who translated Averroes and was the deemed to be finest public intellectual of his time. His life si the subject of Irish author Elizabeth MacDonald's first novel.

    Books • 07 Dec 19
    Jung Chang: Three Sisters and their fascinating stories

    Jung Chang's Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister

    The Wild Swans author documents the story of the three extraordinary Soong sisters, born into a wealthy Shanghai family at the end of the 19th century

    Books • 23 Oct 19
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