Can you judge an e-book by its cover? If so, we’ll have to admit to a certain bias towards The South Circular, a new tablet-friendly short-story collection, whose virtual jacket sleeve is illustrated by sometime TD crayon prodigy Fuchsia Macaree. The four selected stories within vary in style and, indeed, quality, but for the first edition of a very-cheap-indeed independent production with its eyes on fostering local and international literary talent we must insist you invest in this PDF. Its most impressive piece, Adrian Duncan’s strident, nauseating Chicken Lane Manifesto, is worth the €3 alone – as the journal’s closing vignette, it promises a bright future for this digital publishing project.
