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“This book is for those fascinated by the macabre, the grotesque or the noir, sprinkled with dark humour,” writes our reviewer.

This imaginative noir comedy novel follows a misanthropic PI around Ireland – and is built on in-jokes, literary allusions, and puns on Irish language place names and orthography, writes our reviewer.

Dave Clifford published Vox from his bedroom, between 1980 and 1983.

“It’s always the people you miss the most, about anything,” Liz Meldon says on a recent return to the place she built a community around, which is gone now.

Beautifully written, this book lulls you along like a river on a calm day. That’s not to say it doesn’t have its moments of drama though, writes Daniel Seery.

“Erskine’s cutting insights into the lives of everyday people shine through” in this short-story collection, writes our reviewer.

For more than a decade, Brian Showers has compiled and anthologized Irish Gothic and horror writers. Few, though, have been such a mystery to him as the strangely named George Edmund Lobo.

This fast-paced tale of a woman with amnesia in search of her past is “beautiful, tragic at times, and original”, writes Daniel Seery.