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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…

Don’t Look Now and Other Stories by Daphne Du Maurier #DDMreadingweek

Short stories by Niall McArdle #readingirelandmonth19

No 536 After Rain by William Trevor #readingirelandmonth19

William Trevor has long been acclaimed as one of the finest short story writers in the discipline, and After Rain confirms that reputation. This is a stunning and affecting collection of twelve perfectly crafted stories, all exploring the lives of the lost and the lonely. With an unrivalled skill, he insightfully illuminates these quiet lives…

Northern Exposure: Catholic Boy by Rosemary Jenkinson

Northern Exposure: Sweet Home by Wendy Erskine

Three more down…one to go! #20booksofsummer

No 566 Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill #20booksofsummer

Bad Behavior was published in 1988 and it marked a striking debut from Mary Gaitskill. This collection of nine stories features tales of sexual obsession, drug addiction, and the darkest sides of human relationships. Several of the stories feature young women working as prostitutes, through either choice or necessity, most with a striking naïveté despite…

No 578 Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

Following on from Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson and The Sorrows of An American by Siri Hustvedt, Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout is my first experience with an author who I feel that I really should have read a long time ago, because the strength of her writing is quite astonishing. Olive Kitteridge is a “novel…

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

Don’t Look Now and Other Stories by Daphne Du Maurier #DDMreadingweek

Short stories by Niall McArdle #readingirelandmonth19

No 536 After Rain by William Trevor #readingirelandmonth19

Northern Exposure: Catholic Boy by Rosemary Jenkinson

Northern Exposure: Sweet Home by Wendy Erskine

Three more down…one to go! #20booksofsummer

No 566 Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill #20booksofsummer

No 578 Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

Joyride to Jupiter by Nuala O’Connor

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