Book review: The Colony by Audrey Magee

Lloyd is travelling to a remote Irish island because he wants to paint the cliffs. He is going in a … More

Book review: Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

Small Things Like These is just my kind of book, quietly powerful, beautifully told. Bill Furlong is a coal merchant … More

The Echo Chamber features a deeply unappealing family whose life is upended by their addiction to celebrity culture and, in … More

In Where the Edge Is, disaster befalls a small town in Cork when a bus falls into a sinkhole in … More

Actress is a novel in the guise of a biography or perhaps a memoir. It is the story of Katherine … More

Publishers make a lot of claims for their books but describing Night Boat to Tangier as ‘Waiting for Godot meets … More

Sinéad Gleeson’s memoir Constellations explores the relationship between our bodies and our identity. In a series of linked essays, she writes … More

Dirty Little Secrets has a nice set up. It has a golden-age premise (a closed community which must contain the … More

Here are my favourite crime novels of 2018. Tap the book link to read my full review. My first two … More

I loved Jo Spain’s The Confession and was looking forward to reading this, but it hasn’t moved me in the … More