Austin Clarke: The Singing Men at Cashel
The latest addition to my website is Austin Clarke's The Singing Men at Cashel. This is a novel that was published eighty years ago but was never reprinted (partially because…
Eimear McBride: The Lesser Bohemians
The latest addition to my website is Eimear McBride's The Lesser Bohemians. Many critics raved about her first novel, A Girl is a Half-formed Thing, which won the Baileys Women’s…
Michael Hughes: The Countenance Divine
The latest addition to my website is Michael Hughes' The Countenance Divine. This is an apocalyptic vision of England with the story told in four periods. In the first period…
Lisa McInerney: Glorious Heresies
The latest addition to my website is Lisa McInerney's Glorious Heresies. The novel is about what McInerney calls the arse end of Ireland. It is set in a grim part…
Anne Enright: The Green Road
The latest addition to my website is Anne Enright's The Green Road. Enright is definitely making a claim to be the best living Irish novelist and this novel will only…
Máirtín Ó Cadhain: Cré na Cille (The Dirty Dust)
It was my plan to read around twenty Russian novels one after the other but, in the meantime, a few books arrived that I really wanted to read, so there…
Eimear McBride: A Girl is a Half-formed Thing
The latest addition to my website is Eimear McBride's A Girl is a Half-formed Thing. McBride has been hailed as a genius for this novel and it has received quite…
Audrey Magee: The Undertaking
The latest addition to my website is Audrey Magee's The Undertaking, one of the books on the shortlist for the Women's Prize for Fiction. This is Magee's first novel and…
Colm Tóibín: The Testament of Mary
The latest addition to my website is Colm Tóibín's The Testament of Mary. I have generally not enjoyed Tóibín's work and this was no exception. Indeed, I only read it…
Colum McCann: Let the Great World Spin
The latest addition to my website is Colum McCann's Let the Great World Spin. This is a superb novel, with its central theme revolving around the other key event involving…