“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”.
Jake Hoffman’s book features portraits of skaters, each alongside a handwritten note with their reflections on the square and its importance to them.
Friends Eoin Lynam and Sam Moorhead, writers themselves, recently launched the Shorter Stories website.
“It’s a real skill to transfer stories like these to the page without losing any of their magic.”
This new novel from Brian Keogh tells a “story of the fantastic intertwined in the banal, the dead intertwined in the living”.
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 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.”
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”.
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.
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.
“Like dogtooth dresses, white-stripe boating blazers or block-heeled shoes, this book is sure to appeal to those who have lived, loved and revived the Dublin mod scene.”
The cover of the book asks: “What if the weird news is the real news?” A reasonable question to pose in 2021.
