Shortlist Announced for the Irish Book Awards!
“Are you a witch or are you a fairy, or are you the wife of Michael Cleary?” No 571 The Cure by Carlo Gébler
COLONEL EVANSON: Why did you place your wife in the fire? CLEARY: I would not have done that. I would sooner put myself in the fire than put my wife in it. Carlo Gebler’s The Cure is based on the true story of Bridget Cleary, an Irish woman who was burned to death by her…
The Ugly Face of Beauty – Skin Deep by Liz Nugent
Liz Nugent certainly understands the power of an opening paragraph. Her previous novels Unravelling Oliver and Lying in Wait both grabbed the reader’s attention from the off and refused to let up. Skin Deep is no different I wondered when rigor mortis would set in, or if it already had. Once I had cleared away…
No 575 The Maiden Dinosaur by Janet McNeill – a review and a giveaway!
Favourite Irish Novels for World Book Day!
Announcing Reading Ireland Month 2018
It’s that time again! March is coming, my favourite month in my blogging calendar, because it’s Reading Ireland Month – will you be joining us? Ah, gwan, ya will! By now you’ll know that we never stop banging on about Ireland and its hefty cultural punch. Four Nobel Prize winners; five Booker Prize winners; some…
When Light is Like Water by Molly McCloskey
In her grieving state following the death of her mother, Alice (an American NGO who has been working in Kenya) has returned to Ireland, the country where she spent her formative years, to see if she can recapture her place in the world. She came to Ireland in the late 80s as a twentysomething looking…
The Orphans by Annemarie Neary
