The Thing About December, by Donal RyanWith this unsettling study of the greed that tore us apart, Ryan is carving out his terrain and striking at the heart of Irish lifeSat Oct 19 2013 - 01:00
The Book of my Lives, by Aleksandar HemonThe best sections of an intermittently interesting memoir deal with the lead-up to the Bosnian war in the early 1990sSat Mar 23 2013 - 06:00
Fun with Mammy and KatieHUMOUR: The collected wit and wisdom of the Irish mammy and the political thoughts of a less-than-happy baby citizen make entertaining…Sat Dec 15 2012 - 00:00
Casting her spell on the dark sideFICTION: The Casual Vacancy, By JK Rowling, Little, Brown, 503pp. £20Sat Oct 06 2012 - 01:00
Leaving the readers to fend for themselvesFICTION: Will Self’s ambitious new novel, a work of ‘audacity, originality and utter perplexity’, has been nominated for the…Sat Aug 25 2012 - 01:00
A kink in the line of beauty?FICTION: The Stranger’s Child , By Alan Hollinghurst, Picador, 564pp. £20Sat Jul 02 2011 - 01:00
A fantastical fiery adventureCHILDREN'S FICTION : Luka and the Fire of Life By Salman Rushdie Jonathan Cape, 216pp, £12.99Sat Oct 30 2010 - 01:00
Anne Frank, as seen by an admirerCHILDREN'S FICTION: Annexed By Sharon Dogar Andersen Press, 330pp. £12Sat Sept 18 2010 - 01:00
True-life adventures to put ripping yarns in the shadeBIOGRAPHY: The Last Englishman: The Double Life of Arthur Ransome By Roland Chambers Faber Faber, 390pp. £20Sat Aug 22 2009 - 01:00
A story that breaks the rulesFICTION: Bad Day in Blackrock by Kevin Power The Lilliput Press, 235pp, €15.00Sat Oct 11 2008 - 01:00
Low morals on high groundFiction: Five years ago, Stephen L Carter, Professor of Law at Yale University, created an international splash with his debut…Sat Jul 14 2007 - 01:00
A peek through southside curtainsCrime Fiction: Playwright and co-founder of the Rough Magic theatre company Declan Hughes first turned his hand to prose fiction…Sat Apr 07 2007 - 01:00
Rebus reaches the summitCrime: Just over a year ago at the Gleneagles conference in Scotland, the G8 summit was dominated by the concept of Third World…Sat Oct 21 2006 - 01:00
Salvo against the powersFiction: For 30 years, new novels by John le Carré were routinely described as spy thrillers, a classification which ignored…Sat Sept 30 2006 - 01:00
Before the nightmare beganMemoir: The past, LP Hartley famously remarked in The Go-Between, is a different country; they do things differently there…Sat Sept 23 2006 - 01:00
Law and holy ordersCrime fiction: Author biographies rarely contain much to excite the imagination, but Andrew Nugent's is a little more unusual…Sat Jul 29 2006 - 01:00
