Thursday 14th February
Review: "Where Reasons End" by Yiyun Li
Yvonne Nolan reviews "Where Reasons End" by Yiyun Li, where a mother and her teenage son who died by suicide have conversations mid-way between this life and the next (published ...
Tuesday 12th February
"For The Good Times" by David Keenan
David Keenan reads an extract from his novel "For The Good Times" (published by Faber & Faber)
Review: "The Gunners" by Rebecca Kauffman
Siobhan Callaghan reviews "The Gunners" by Rebecca Kauffman, following the lives of five friends since childhood (published by Serpents Tail)
Monday 11th February
Review: "Friday Black" by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Daragh Downes reviews "Friday Black", the debut short story collection from American writer Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (published by Riverrun)
Thursday 7th February
Review: "When All Is Said" by Anne Griffin
Áine Ní Ghlinn reviews "When All Is Said", the debut novel by Anne Griffin, in which an 84-year old man drinks a toast to the five most important people in ...
Wednesday 6th February
"You Know You Want This" by Kristen Roupenian
Kristen Roupenian chats about her debut collection of short stories "You Know You Want This", which also includes her best-selling New Yorker story Cat Person (published by Jonathan Cape)
Monday 4th February
"The Great Wide Open" by Douglas Kennedy
Douglas Kennedy chats about "The Great Wide Open", his novel about a woman who moves from Manhattan to Dublin in 1984 after the discovery of a family secret turns her world ...
Friday 1st February
"The Wall" by John Lanchester
John Lanchester talks about his latest novel "The Wall", which imagines a world after catastrophic climate change where a tribe of outsiders terrify those who live behind a fortified wall ...
Tuesday 29th January
"Music Love Drugs War" by Geraldine Quigley
Geraldine Quigley reads an extract from her novel "Music Love Drugs War" (published by Fig Tree)
Monday 28th January
Review: "Adele" by Leila Slimani
Mia Gallagher reviews "Adele" by Leila Slimani, about a woman who has a seemingly perfect life in Paris but is consumed by an insatiable desire for sex, an addiction which ...
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