Book review: Blood-soaked Victorian thrills

This is a highly entertaining novel, but its graphic descriptions of nauseating smells, blood-soaked corpses, and the under-age prostitutes, are not for the faint-hearted
Book review: Blood-soaked Victorian thrills

Paraic O’Donnell lives in Wicklow. He is the author of three novels. Picture: Roger Kenny Photography

Sat, 29 Mar, 2025 - 01:00
Alannah Hopkin

  • The Naming of the Birds 
  • Paraic O’Donnell 
  • Weidenfeld & Nicolson, €17.99 

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