The Country Girls – Edna O’Brien
The Country Girls is the first novel of Irish writer Edna O’Brien and a quintessential coming-of-age story. It was published in 1960 and immediately banned in Ireland and even …
The Country Girls is the first novel of Irish writer Edna O’Brien and a quintessential coming-of-age story. It was published in 1960 and immediately banned in Ireland and even …
I’ve left the short stories alone for a couple of days, while I lost myself in The Narrow Road To The Deep North. Its 467 pages long but …
I’ve finished the fourth draft of my novel and its out with four (mainly friends and family) beta readers over christmas/new year. I’m feeling a bit deflated rather …
The Strays is Emily Bitto’s much lauded debut about an artist’s colony in 1930s Melbourne. She’s acknowledged that the story was influenced by the Heide circle around John and …
On a hot July morning during the infamous English heatwave of 1976, Irishman Robert Riordan walks out of the North London home he shares with his wife Gretta and …
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