Book Review: If All The World And Love Were Young – Stephen Sexton
Sexton’s deft use of elliptical syntax to signpost thematic shifts and effect emotive transitions repeatedly disrupts one’s readerly expectations.
Book Review: Paris Syndrome – Lucy Sweeney Byrne
"The narratives drift listlessly from one location to the next, as though through a car window, and the reader is always subtly unsettled and uprooted."
Book Review: Home – Eoin Ó Broin
In Home, Eoin Ó Broin brings us from the mid-19th century to the present day and poses an exhaustive and convincing argument that the Irish housing system has never really…
Book Review: Nobber – Oisín Fagan
Fagan’s characters act as vehicles for his ethical quandaries, and the answers they present are exceedingly dark.
Book Review: Call Him Mine – Tim MacGabhann
Call Him Mine, the debut novel from Tim MacGabhann, is a terrific, tightly-paced thriller that utterly transports its reader.
Book Review: salt slow – Julia Armfield
salt slow is a debut collection of bizarre and unnerving tales showcasing Julia Armfield’s penchant for the absurd.
Book Review: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous – Ocean Vuong
There is always something compelling about a poet trying their hand at prose.
Book Review: The Heavens – Sandra Newman
The Heavens is clearly produced in the shadow of the current administration.
Book Review: Lost Children Archive – Valeria Luiselli
An archive of interpersonal violence, a stunning depiction of what we’re capable of doing both to strangers and to those we love most.
Book Review: Constellations – Sinead Gleeson
What is striking throughout Constellations is the strength of Gleeson’s voice, as well as the exuberance of prose which articulates experiences that cannot have been anything other than traumatic and…
Book Review: The Parisian – Isabella Hammad
A tip: the jacket synopsis for Hammad’s The Parisian has almost nothing to do with what the book is about.
Book Review: The Last Ones Left Alive – Sarah Davis-Goff
A four-legged companion and one wounded, wheelbarrow-bound guardian make this harrowing journey all the more dramatic.
Book Review: Show Them A Good Time – Nicole Flattery
There is much to anticipate in Flattery’s novel to-come, and much to appreciate here.
Book Review: Lanny – Max Porter
A story that slowly, carefully takes root before it jolts towards unexpected crisis
Book Review: You Know You Want This – Kristen Roupenian
You Know You Want This is the work of a writer keen to reclaim some control over their own work.
Book Review: Notes on Jackson and His Dead – Hugh Fulham-McQuillan
A sophisticated taste of the macabre endures.
Book Review: Border Districts – Gerald Murnane
An introspective, thought-provoking novel, exploring the grainy depths of our consciousness.
Book Review: Mouthful of Birds – Samantha Schweblin
Her knack for toying with reality rarely fails to entertain.