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Frankie’s World, Reviewed
“I would recommend this book to people who like graphic novels and anyone who has autism or feels like they don’t fit in.”
“In Every Band That I Ever Knew, There Was Always a Jimmy”
In a new play, a group of musicians explore the idea that every band has a talented guy who also needs a babysitter.
Moany McMoan – The Accidental Hero, Reviewed
“There were a lot of things that I enjoyed” about this book, our eight-year-old critic writes, but it “wasn’t really my style”.
Photo Book Records Skateboarders’ Eulogy to Portobello Square, Now in a Box
Jake Hoffman’s book features portraits of skaters, each alongside a handwritten note with their reflections on the square and its importance to them.
A New Platform for Amateur Writers Who Want a Bigger Audience Than Just Their Mates and Their Mothers
Friends Eoin Lynam and Sam Moorhead, writers themselves, recently launched the Shorter Stories website.
Undernose Farm Revisited, Reviewed
“It’s a real skill to transfer stories like these to the page without losing any of their magic.”
Le Fanu’s Angel, Reviewed
This new novel from Brian Keogh tells a “story of the fantastic intertwined in the banal, the dead intertwined in the living”.
Unsettled, Reviewed
This book of essays by playwright, performer, columnist and member of Aosdána Rosaleen McDonagh about her life as a disabled Traveller woman is “honest and beautifully written”.
The Spirit of the River: A Quest for the Kingfisher, Reviewed
“The prose is as beautiful as it is visual. Perhaps this is because so much of the shared knowledge isn’t retrieved from books. It’s from experiencing an environment first-hand.”
The Alliance of Pirates, Reviewed
This book “is a must have for those investigating the history of piracy … or even for those who just want to see the fact beyond the fiction”.
Civilised by Beasts, Reviewed
In this new book, animal exploitation is used as a lens to reflect the changing social, cultural and ideological fabric of the city of Dublin as it moved towards a new model of urban civilisation in the nineteenth century.
This Road of Mine, Reviewed
In this first English-language edition of an Irish-language classic, Seosamh Mac Grianna “writes with searing honesty on topics that engage or provoke him” in his travels in Dublin city, and Wales.