Friday, 11 April 2025

The Gentle Island & Give Me Your Answer, Do! By Brian Friel

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Having seen each of these plays, the texts of which are now being published, performed at some time or other over the years, this reviewer w...
Thursday, 3 April 2025

An Age of Innocence (Irish Culture 1930-1960) By Brian Fallon

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An Age of Innocence (Irish Culture 1930-1960) By Brian Fallon (Gill & Macmillian) Brian Fallon, the semi-retired former chief critic of ...
Thursday, 27 March 2025

My Mistress’s Sparrow Is Dead – Great Love Stories from Chekhov to Munro Edited by Jeffrey Eugenides

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My Mistress’s Sparrow Is Dead – Great Love Stories from Chekhov to Munro Edited by Jeffrey Eugenides (HarperPress, £12.99stg hardback) This ...
Monday, 24 March 2025

What Are You Like? By Anne Enright

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What Are You Like? By Anne Enright (Jonathan Cape, p/b, £10) The colloquial, jokey inquiry, usually delivered when someone has done somethin...
Saturday, 15 March 2025

Crazy John and the Bishop By Terry Eagleton

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Crazy John and the Bishop By Terry Eagleton (University of Notre Dame Press in association with Field Day, No Price Given) Ever since he bur...
Thursday, 6 March 2025

Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi By Geoff Dyer

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Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi By Geoff Dyer (Canongate, £12.99stg p/b) Geoff Dyer’s new work is very much a book of two halves. Indeed, ...
Wednesday, 5 March 2025

Whatever Happened to Margo? By Margaret Durrell

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Whatever Happened to Margo? By Margaret Durrell (Warner Books) Sister of the more famous and, it has to be said, more talented Gerald and La...