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.

Louis MacNeice

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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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