I am so at home in Dublin, more than any other city, that I feel it has always been familiar to me. It took me years to see through its soft charm to its bitter prickly kernel - which I quite like too.
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A love-across-the-divide story from the North – with a difference
A Japanese mystery that evokes the slippery nature of memory
Fictional therapy for the ‘climate grief’ of the ecotrauma epidemic
John Banville’s new novel set on the shores of the Bay of Biscay
Vargas Llosa’s study of the overthrow of democracy and reform in Guatemala
Luke Cassidy’s novel of drug deals, heists and mess-ups along the border
A book telling the story of a book that cannot be written – which is written
Six days in Hamburg – a ‘weekend break’ and family reunion with a difference
A German writer learns the cost of making a god of the nation
Grief, addiction, abuse, self-harm, motherhood, breakdown, hilarity