7th April 2021
"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."
3rd March 2021
'Gloria! he said, not loud enough. Gloria! he shouted again. It sounded ridiculous, like some kind of dreadful Van Morrison tribute act. Gloria!'
3rd February 2021
"What do you think of, I said to my husband that evening, when you think of Monica Lewinsky?"
28th January 2021
A troubled investigator exposes deeds too wicked to speak of in Mike McCormack's story for cold nights and guilty consciences.
26th January 2021
A group of writers from different generations camp out in a Chinese city square, musing on survival in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake.
4th December 2020
Michelle Coyne's anaesthetised protagonist falls into dangerous, freeing obsession on an Icelandic holiday.
3rd December 2020
A despairing brother is roused by Mattie Brennan's unforgettable Mannions on a hard-drinking train journey from Galway to Dublin.
2nd December 2020
A fugitive returns to his belligerent, brilliant uncle in Ciarán Folan's story of hard men, lost talent, and twisted alliances.
1st December 2020
Everything changes for a young dealer tasked with selling diesel-laced hash in Aoibheann McCann's tough and grungy Galway.
30th November 2020
David Tierney imagines a ravaged Galway, where a farmer returns to her land to find defiance and hope and an unexpected adversary.