Sunday Praise: What’s made me happy this week?
Recent Crime Fiction from Ireland!
No 467 The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
The Stepford Wives needs no introduction. Thanks to not one, but two movie adaptations, it has a plot so famous as to have entered cultural discourse – everyone knows what a Stepford Wife is now, but the novel upon which the films are based is a much more interesting and ambiguous affair. It is in…
No 468 One by One in the Darkness by Deirdre Madden
It just goes to show that in this small country nearly every family has undergone a loss. Even minor psychological scars run as deep here as bullet holes but, without them, our writing would not have its passion and depth. Northern Irish writer Rosemary Jenkinson in The Irish Times One by One in the Darkness…
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No 469 Audition by Ryu Murakami, translated by Ralph McCarthy
In 1999, riding the wave of interest in Korean horror movies, Takashi Miike’s Audition hit our cinemas and subsequently appeared on every ‘Best Horror Films of All Time’ list with remarkable regularity. The source material for the film was written by Ryu Murakami in 1997 and its horror is of a much more insidious kind.…
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Books About Music: A Reading List!
No 470 Kiss Me First by Lottie Moggach
