Desmond Traynor

The Line of Beauty                                                                                   By Alan Hollinghurst Picking up from w...

The Mulberry Empire By Philip Hensher (£17.99stg, H/B) The new doorstop novel (537 pages!) by Philip Hensher, who is a columnist for the Lon...

Nowhere Man By Aleksandar Hemon (Picador, £15.99stg p/b) This second novel from Hemon, a follow-up to 2000’s The Question of Bruno , which w...

Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996 By Seamus Heaney (Faber and Faber) Even before he won the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature, for what the Swedi...

Sudden Times By Dermot Healy (Harvill, £10.99) If, as was suggested sometime ago by the esteemed film critic of the Irish Sunday Times , Ger...

The Honeymoon By Justin Haythe (Picador, £15.99stg) This debut novel by thirty-year-old Haythe concerns the Oedipal struggle between America...

Curtains By Katy Hayes (Phoenix House, £12.99) This is Katy Hayes’ first novel, but she has already had a book of her fiction published, if ...