Title: Leonard and Hungry Paul Author: Rónán Hession Publisher: Bluemoose Books Reviewer: Grace Kelly Pages: 656 Format: Paperback ISBN: 9781910422755 Price: €9.99 Publication Date: February 2021 (first published 2019) Category: Fiction Leonard and Hungry Paul is a novel that explores loneliness, the ordinary and friendship. Leonard is a single man […]
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Title: Nora Author: Nuala O’Connor Publisher: New Island Reviewer: Caoimhe White Release date: 10 April 2021 ISBN: 9781848407893 Pages: 386 Price: €16.95 Literary celebrations of the lives of the women woven into the fabric of history are taking a stand: A Ghost in the Throat (Tramp Press) by Doireann Ní […]
Book: Acts of Desperation Author: Megan Nolan Publisher: Jonathan Cape Reviewer: Caoimhe White Release Date: March 4 2021 Pages: 288 ISBN: 9781787333369 Price: €16.95 / £14.99 There is an edge to the first conversation between the unnamed narrator of Acts of Desperation and Ciaran, the novel’s beautiful but callous love […]
Book: Pure Gold Author: John Patrick McHugh Publisher: New Island Reviewer: Caoimhe White Release Date: February 26 2021 Pages: 244 ISBN: 97818484079166 Price: €12.95 With its opening story, ‘Bonfire’, John Patrick McHugh’s debut collection, Pure Gold (New Island), offers the reader a baptism of fire: as the story’s narrator and […]
This week, we are celebrating the glory of the short story with a list of ten Irish collections that will remind you just how great they can be. Join us as we invite you to re-read some of your favourites, and discover some new collections too. Modern Times by Cathy […]
Sarah Webb and Alan Nolan Animal Crackers The O’Brien Press, August 2020 Paperback, 176PP, €11.99 ISBN: 9781788490658 Review by Joanna Geoghegan Did you know that dolphins only shut down half their brain when they sleep? Or that polar bears’ fur isn’t white – it’s actually translucent to allow light to hit […]
Graham Norton Home Stretch Hodder & Stoughton, October 2020 Paperback, 362PP, €12.99 ISBN: 978 1 473 66517 0 Review by Joanna Geoghegan. It is 1987, and the town of Mullinmore, County Cork, is in high glee as they prepare for a wedding. The afternoon before the big day, however, the […]
After The SilenceBy Louise O’Neill Riverrun, September 2020 Review by: Joyce Dignam Ten years ago, at Keelin Kinsella’s birthday party, a young girl, Nessa Crowley was murdered. That night, a storm prevented anyone from leaving or entering the island of Inisrún. The killer was an islander and still, ten years […]
Caoimhe from the DBF team not only got the chance to review Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s award-winning prose debut, ‘A Ghost in the Throat’, but also to interview Doireann – a treat! We hope you enjoy.
