Book review: My Father’s House by Joseph O’Connor

My Father’s House is a novel based on a true story (very loosely based, O’Connor emphasises in an author’s note). … More

Book review: The Night Interns by Austin Duffy

In The Night Interns, an unnamed intern in an unnamed Irish city goes through a year of night shifts with … More

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

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