A Cork e-book distribution company has launched its latest classroom-based web application in a Douglas school for hearing and speech-impaired children.

The Shelter of Neighbours

“My earliest memory was of my mother reading Roald Dahl to us in bed. I later read a lot of Enid Blighton. I took a break from reading in my teens, but rediscovered it in my late twenties.

Hooleygan: Music, Mayhem, Good Vibrations. Terri Hooley and Richard Sullivan, Blackstaff Press; £14.99.

HELEN LEWIS’ carefully wrought account of the European Jewish experience from the mid-1930s through to the late ’40s is so much more than mere memoir. In A Time To Speak, and with a quite astonishing dispassion, Miss Lewis has laid out a chronology of her life that reads like nothing less than a descent into hell.

I AM editing an anthology of Irish war poetry for publication by Blackstaff Press.