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Westward Dreams

Westward Dreams

Kevin Stevens

The Passenger, by Cormac McCarthy, Picador, 400 pp, £20, ISBN: 978-1524712396 Stella Maris, by Cormac McCarthy, Picador, 192 pp, £20, ISBN: 978-1447294016 ‘Tell a dream and lose a reader,’ Henry James warned us, but Cormac McCarthy hasn’t been listening. For sixty years he’s been writing novels that, at critical moments, use dreams to spin parables […]

Love in the Dark

Love in the Dark

Dawn Miranda Sherratt-Bado

A love-across-the-divide story from the North – with a difference

Movements in the Deep

Movements in the Deep

Leanne Ogasawara

A Japanese mystery that evokes the slippery nature of memory

Cosmic Loneliness

Cosmic Loneliness

Damian Walsh

Fictional therapy for the ‘climate grief’ of the ecotrauma epidemic

A Season in Spain

A Season in Spain

Denis Sampson

John Banville’s new novel set on the shores of the Bay of Biscay

The Banana Bunch

The Banana Bunch

Maurice Walsh

Vargas Llosa’s study of the overthrow of democracy and reform in Guatemala

Wheeler Dealers

Wheeler Dealers

Mary Nagle

Luke Cassidy’s novel of drug deals, heists and mess-ups along the border

Losing the Plot

Losing the Plot

Brian Davey

A book telling the story of a book that cannot be written – which is written

City Breakdown

City Breakdown

Susan McKeever

Six days in Hamburg – a ‘weekend break’ and family reunion with a difference

A Learning Curve

A Learning Curve

Enda O’Doherty

A German writer learns the cost of making a god of the nation

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