Joyce Cary: The Horse’s Mouth
The latest addition to my website is Joyce Cary's The Horse’s Mouth. This is the third book in Cary's first trilogy and far the best-known, primarily because of the character…
Joyce Cary: To Be a Pilgrim
The latest addition to my website is Joyce Cary's To Be a Pilgrim. This is the second in the trilogy, which started with Herself Surprised. This one tells the story…
Joyce Cary: Herself Surprised
The latest addition to my website is Joyce Cary's Herself Surprised. This is the first in a trilogy which primarily aims to give, in each volume, the points of view…
Austin Clarke: The Sun Dances at Easter
The latest addition to my website is Austin Clarke's The Sun Dances at Easter. This is a story set around a thousand years ago, involving Irish myths and legends and…
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…