

My Favourite Books of 2022: Part Two – The Irish!

Shortlist announced for the Irish Book Awards 2022!

Announcing A Year With William Trevor for 2023!
No 382 The Dark Hole Days by Una Woods
I read The Dark Hole Days by Una Woods as part of Reading Ireland Month, but have only just got round to reviewing it. A slim novella, The Dark Hole Days presents the parallel lives of Joe and Colette, two young people living in Belfast from either side of the sectarian divide, who don’t know…


Saying Goodbye to Reading Ireland Month ’22

Reading Ireland Month Week Four round-up!
Forthcoming Irish Nonfiction for 2022
The Children of Dynmouth by William Trevor #readingirelandmonth22
The Children of Dynmouth is probably the most impressive of William Trevor’s novels that I have read so far. At the heart of this slim novel, set in the seaside town of Dynmouth, is a fabulous creation in fifteen-year old Timothy Gedge, an awkward, insinuating boy who spends his time hanging around the town and…

Read more The Children of Dynmouth by William Trevor #readingirelandmonth22
