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| | Fiction - paperback; Penguin; 112 pages; 2018. Translated from the Italian by W.J. Strachan. The Beautiful Summer by Cesare Pavese (1908-1950) won Italy's most prestigious literary award, the Strega Prize for fiction, in 1950. (The author sadly died by suicide a couple of months later.) It's the story of a teenage girl whose friendship with...
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| | Fiction - paperback; Lilliput Press; 228 pages; 2017. A few years back I read Kevin Casey's A State of Mind, a memorable novel about a struggling writer living in Co. Wicklow, whose life is under threat from the IRA. Loosely based on British author Frederick Forsyth's experiences as a tax exile living in Ireland in...
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| | A Year With William Trevor | #WilliamTrevor2023 Fiction - paperback; Penguin; 195 pages; 2014. The first Sunday of the month means it's time to review another William Trevor book as part of A Year With William Trevor, which I am co-hosting with Cathy from 746 Books. I wasn't sure what to expect when I picked...
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| Fiction - paperback; Faber &Faber; 144 pages; 2014. In recent years, Deirdre Madden has becomeone of my favourite writers. She has 10 novels to her name, but I've only reviewed three of them - One by One in the Darkness(published in 1996), Molly Fox's Birthday(2008) and Time Present and Time Past(2013) - which means Ihave...