"She felt both important and embarrassed, now, in the street. The afternoon was ageing amiably. The all-year plastic Santa bracketed to a chimney on Attracta Road was dusty in soft sun."
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Conor O'Callaghan's "propulsive" novel is about the process of coming to see—coming to understand—the recent past.
'Getting The Electric', a story from our Summer 2020 issue, is beautifully read by the Choice Prize-nominated musician.
If a Kevin Barry character declares themselves a romantic, they’re generally headed for trouble.
“Out of everything I watched, only one show truly captured my imagination and that was the BBC police drama Line of Duty.”
"She felt both important and embarrassed, now, in the street. The afternoon was ageing amiably. The all-year plastic Santa bracketed to a chimney on Attracta Road was dusty in soft sun."
'Gloria! he said, not loud enough. Gloria! he shouted again. It sounded ridiculous, like some kind of dreadful Van Morrison tribute act. Gloria!'
"What do you think of, I said to my husband that evening, when you think of Monica Lewinsky?"
Michelle Coyne's anaesthetised protagonist falls into dangerous, freeing obsession on an Icelandic holiday.
A despairing brother is roused by Mattie Brennan's unforgettable Mannions on a hard-drinking train journey from Galway to Dublin.
A fugitive returns to his belligerent, brilliant uncle in Ciarán Folan's story of hard men, lost talent, and twisted alliances.
Cathy Sweeney's stories have already attracted a band of fanatical devotees, and this first collection is as marvellous as we could have hoped for. A unique imagination, a brilliant debut. — Kevin Barry
1st April 2021
2nd November 2020
22nd October 2020
"She felt both important and embarrassed, now, in the street. The afternoon was ageing amiably. The all-year plastic Santa bracketed to a chimney on Attracta Road was dusty in soft sun."
“Out of everything I watched, only one show truly captured my imagination and that was the BBC police drama Line of Duty.”
'Gloria! he said, not loud enough. Gloria! he shouted again. It sounded ridiculous, like some kind of dreadful Van Morrison tribute act. Gloria!'