A masterwork. I doubt that I have read a book as moving in at least a decade. A homage to the redemptive power of love’ Independent Summer, 1921. Eight-year-old Lucy Gault clings to the glens and woods above Lahardane...
Edna O’Brien’s first novel The Country Girls and its sequels The Lonely Girl and Girls in their Married Bliss changed the temperature of Irish literature in the 1960s. The characters of Kate Brady and her friend Baba Brennan have...
Widely regarded as Sadegh Hedayat’s masterpiece, the Blind Owl is the most important work of literature to come out of Iran in the past century. On the surface this work seems to be a tale of doomed love, but...
It’s a snowy evening, South London. From a bus, Max Wolf and his brother Angelo see a gang ominously tracking a well-known rapper, Mogul King, through the dark streets. Minutes later, Mogul King boards the bus, presses a parcel...
Head back 4,500 years, to a time when Skara Brae was a modern, living village rather than an ancient monument. Meet village priest Jona, fiery fire maker Roben, and Marna, who lives in the village with her widowed mother...
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