Northern Exposure

No 522 Truth or Fiction by Jennifer Johnston (Book 6 of #20booksofsummer)

Truth or Fiction by Jennifer Johnston continues my Northern Exposure series which highlight literature from Northern Ireland and is also, helpfully, one of my 20 Books of Summer! Jennifer Johnston’s fiction regularly deals with themes of memory, loss and an inability to come to terms with the past and Truth or Fiction is no different.…

No 525 Secrets and Other Stories by Bernard MacLaverty (Book 3 of #20booksofsummer)

Northern Exposure is my monthly series where I look at literature from Northern Ireland. I have three books by Northern Irish writers in my 20 Books of Summer stack and the first one up is Secrets and Other Stories by Bernard MacLaverty. Secrets and Other Stories is Bernard MacLaverty’s first short story collection, originally published…

Northern Exposure: Cuckoo by Linda Anderson

Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading by Patricia Craig #readingirelandmonth19

Northern Exposure: Catholic Boy by Rosemary Jenkinson

No 539 I Am Mary Dunne by Brian Moore #readingirelandmonth19

The title of Brian Moore’s sixth novel from 1968 could be a statement or a question, as his titular character battles with the notion of identity over the space of one day. I Am Mary Dunne, is a touching portrait of a neurotic woman trying to figure out who she was and who she has…