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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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

At Bates Motel

At Bates Motel

Susan McKeever

Grief, addiction, abuse, self-harm, motherhood, breakdown, hilarity

Love Hurts

Love Hurts

Tadhg Hoey

Megan Nolan’s debut novel, a refreshingly honest and often uncomfortable meditation on the relationship between desire, self-destruction and the female body

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