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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; Flamingo; 176 pages; 2003. First published in 1970, Paula Fox'sDesperate Characters has recently been "rediscovered" and much acclaimed by the literary elite (in the introduction to this edition, Jonathan Franzen says that when he first read the book in 1991 he "fell in love with it. It seemed to me obviously superior... | |
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| | | | Chain links... Six Degrees of Separation is a monthly meme hosted by Books Are My Favourite and Best. The idea is to start with the book that Kate gives us and then create a chain of six books, each suggested by the one before. This month's starting book is... Stasiland by Anna Funder. I haven't... | |
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| | I am on my second reading of Gerald Murnane's new book, A Million Windows - and I can't resist sharing this marvellous metaphor for poetry... Imagine, if you will, a 'house of fiction' harbouring many writers, who seem to have corralled themselves into different wings of the house. In one wing no one 'owns to'... |