Organisation: Atlantic Books

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Ruth Gilligan's new novel timely published during Covid-19 crisis

Ruth Gilligan’s timely novel, The Butchers, has just about made it across the line to be published during the virus crisis, writes Eoghan O’Sullivan

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An Post book awards celebrate best Irish writing

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Book review: Goodnight, Beautiful Women

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Book review: Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan by Ruth Gilligan

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Book review: God’s Wolf The Life of the Most Notorious of All Crusaders: Reynard de Chatillon by Jeffrey Lee

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Book review: The Senility of Vladimir P

Book review: Dietland

THE lead character in Dietland, Plum, is unusual in a novel — she’s fat. She’s unhappy, living a very small life that barely takes her anywhere other than her apartment and her local cafe, where she is embarrassed to be seen eating a scone in public, and she suffers cruel looks and comments.

Sat, 11 Jun, 2016

Book review: I Am No One

He has an Irish name and an English accent but writer Patrick Flanery is an all-American boy, as Sue Leonard discovers.

Sat, 04 Jun, 2016

Book review: And Yet... essays

WHEN Christopher Hitchens died from oesophageal cancer in December 2011, the world of letters lost one of its most compelling and provocative minds. 

Sat, 21 May, 2016

Book review: The Prophets of Eternal Fjord

IN OUR fast-paced world, one has to really trust an author to make a big commitment of time to surrender to the enormity of a novel such as this of nearly 600 pages. 

Sat, 16 Apr, 2016

Book review: The Senility Of Vladimir P

NIKOLAI SHEREMETEV has never quite got the hang of how things work in Russia. 

Sat, 02 Apr, 2016

Book review: What A Way To Go

THIS amusing coming-of-age novel, narrated by 12-year old Harper Richardson, is full of humour, often of the black variety.

Sat, 30 Jan, 2016

Book review: And Yet... Essays

HITCHENS’ death in 2011 robbed the world of one of its foremost critics of cant, tyranny and puritanism.

Sat, 16 Jan, 2016

Book review: When The Doves Disappeared

Sofi Oksanen writes in Finnish and getting her work translated into English was difficult at first but now she has the kind of sales publishers crave. She explained all to Tony Clayton-Lea on one of her regular visits to Ireland.

Sat, 11 Jul, 2015

Book review: The Lives of Women

Christine Dwyer Hickey is a woman in a hurry — she fears she might run out of time before she gets to write all the books she wants to. She spoke to Sue Leonard about her race against time and her latest book.

Sat, 25 Apr, 2015