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Marita Conlon-McKenna (Pic: Ger Woods)

Book review: The Hungry Road by Marita Conlon-McKenna

Books / 22 mins

Billy O'Callaghan; From Ireland to Taipei with mournful and exhilarating stretches in between

Review: The Boatman & Other Stories - Billy O'Callaghan

László Krasznahorkai: master of the imagination roaming free

Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming by László Krasznahorkai

Brian O'Connell: Ad Man

Book review: The Personals by Brian O'Connell

Kyoto scene from 1896. Kyoto was centuries prior to that the so-called (Japanese) Capital,`the only place for a civilised person to be.'

Reviewed: Travels With A Writing Brush

Books / 20 Dec 19

Tom Holland's vast survey of Christendom ranges from Moses to (Angela) Merkel, from Babylon to Beverly Hills.

Reviewed: Dominion by Tom Holland

Books / 19 Dec 19

Neil Hegarty: a world of colour brilliantly evoled

Reviewed: The Jewel by Neil Hegarty

Books / 17 Dec 19

Reviewed: Julio Ramón Ribeyro's Word of the Speechless

Books / 10 Dec 19

A Matter of Interpretation - author Elizabeth MacDonald

A Matter of Interpretation by Elizabeth MacDonald

Books / 07 Dec 19

Author and mariner Philip Marsden (pic Charlotte Hobson)

Reviewed: The Summer Isles by Philip Marsden

Books / 12 Dec 19

Brittany Kaiser on her Cambridge Analytica exploits, a stab at a tell-all account.

Reviewed: Targeted by Brittany Kaiser

Books / 29 Nov 19

Rory Cowan: lots of laughs

Reviewed: Mrs Cowan's Boy by Rory Cowan

Books / 25 Nov 19

Brett Anderson - Faces regret and guilt with the wisdom of a man who has reached that certain age and learned to live with the folly of an earlier one

Reviewed: Brett Anderson's new rock n' roll memoir

Book Review / 22 Nov 19

Pat McCabe: The further adventures of Francie Brady

Reviewed: The Big Yaroo by Patrick McCabe

Books / 26 Nov 19

Owen Dwyer: men are restricted by the glass ceiling in his novel

Book Review: Number Games by Owen Dwyer

Books / 21 Nov 19

Gannets feeding frenzy - one of the remarkable images in Ken O'Sullivan's wonderful new book

Reviewed: Stories From the Deep by Ken O'Sullivan

Books / 20 Nov 19

'Le Carré is now nothing if not an angry writer.'

Reviewed: Agent Running in the Field by John Le Carré

Books / 18 Nov 19

Billie Holiday (1915-1959) seen through the eyes of Elizabeth Hardwick in The Red Thread

Book Review: The Red Thread 20 years of NYRB Classics

Culture / 13 Nov 19

Little Green Car: Buy a greener electric/hybrid vehicle if you need to buy a car says Luke Eastwood

How to Save the Planet - Luke Eastwood

Culture / 11 Nov 19

Author Leo Moynihan: three giants of football strategy profiled in his refreshing new work

The Three Kings: The Makers of Modern Football

Book Review / 12 Nov 19

Emma Donoghue, best-selling author of Room, is back with Akin

Book review: Akin by Emma Donoghue

Book Review / 05 Nov 19

Master at work - Lee Child

Reviewed: Blue Moon by Lee Child

Book Review / 04 Nov 19

Detail from the covert art-work E Nesbit's The Railway Children in the Penguin edition

Review: Eleanor Fitzsimons' Life and Loves of E Nesbit

Books / 01 Nov 19

Pat Boran, co-editor of the compelling anthology Writing Home

Reviewed: Writing Home -The New Irish Poets

Books / 31 Oct 19

Jung Chang: Three Sisters and their fascinating stories

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

Books / 23 Oct 19

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