Book reviews of mainly modern & contemporary fiction

‘The Long Prospect’ by Elizabeth Harrower

‘The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman’ by Denis Thériault

‘Beastings’ by Benjamin Myers

‘The Devil’s Staircase’ by Helen FitzGerald

‘Our Souls at Night’ by Kent Haruf

‘The Bed I Made’ by Lucie Whitehouse

‘Provocation’ by Charlotte Grimshaw

‘Snow Country’ by Yasunari Kawabata

‘Careful, He Might Hear You’ by Sumner Locke Elliott

‘The Waking of Willie Ryan’ by John Broderick

‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ by Margaret Atwood

‘The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial’ by Maggie Nelson

‘A History of Running Away’ by Paula McGrath

Triple Choice Tuesday: Paula McGrath

‘Familiar Things’ by Hwang Sok-Yong

‘The Empress and the Cake’ by Linda Stift

‘The Woolgrower’s Companion’ by Joy Rhoades

Triple Choice Tuesday: Joy Rhoades

Kit de Waal wins 2017 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year

‘Inch Levels’ by Neil Hegarty