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| | | | Fiction - paperback; Giramondo; 144 pages; 2020. Translated from the Spanish by Ellen Jones. It's widely acknowledged that the letter X holds a special place in Elon Musk's heart (assuming he has one). There's SpaceX, Tesla's Model X and the social media channel X (formerly known as Twitter). He even has a child named X... | |
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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... | |
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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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| | Fiction - paperback; Picador; 436 pages; 2021. Colm Tóibín is one of my favourite writers, but The Magician didn't quite work for me. It's an account of the life and times of Nobel Prize-winning German author Thomas Mann (1875-1955), whose work - Buddenbrooks, Death in Venice, The Magic Mountain et al - I've never read,... |