Book reviews of mainly modern & contemporary fiction

4 new books by favourite authors

‘The Rúin’ by Dervla McTiernan

‘A Gun for Sale’ by Graham Greene

The 2021 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award shortlist

‘Revenge: Murder in Three Parts’ by S.L. Lim

Six Degrees of Separation: From ‘Shuggie Bain’ to ‘My Buried Life’

Southern Cross Crime Month wrap-up

‘Shore Leave’ by David Whish-Wilson

‘Sheerwater’ by Leah Swann

‘The Family Doctor’ by Debra Oswald

‘The Husband Poisoner’ by Tanya Bretherton

2021 Stella Prize shortlist

‘The Second Son’ by Loraine Peck

‘In the Clearing’ by J.P. Pomare

‘The Hunted’ by Gabriel Bergmoser

New Southern Cross Crime novels to add to your wishlist

Six Degrees of Separation: From ‘Phosphorescence’ to ‘The Media and the Massacre’

2021 Stella Prize longlist

‘Ash Mountain’ by Helen Fitzgerald

‘From Where I Fell’ by Susan Johnson