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The Ghost Hunters

The Ghost Hunters

Aiden O’Reilly

A literary treatment set in Florida of the classic ‘hero’s quest’ story

A Great Worker

A Great Worker

Alena Dvořáková

The work which, 100 years ago, gave us the concept of the robot

Finding a Space

Finding a Space

Catriona Crowe

Women and writing in Ireland’s breakthrough feminist ‘second wave’

Rounding up the Strays

Rounding up the Strays

Eve Patten

A new collection of the work of a doyenne of the literary review

Before the Deluge

Before the Deluge

Barra Ó Seaghdha

A classic account of the life of a working class Parisian street

Priest of the Phallus

Priest of the Phallus

Rosita Sweetman

Lawrence’s skewed sexual politics and its legacy in the porn industry

The Flowering

The Flowering

Lia Mills /Éilís Ní Dhuibhne

The 1950s: a good time to be born for a girl who must write

Freefall in the Suburbs

Freefall in the Suburbs

Susan McKeever

In Danielle McLaughlin’s first novel brief moments of high drama intermingle with journeys into the complex, foggy territory

Stalking Truth

Stalking Truth

Dick Edelstein

Geraldine Mitchell’s four collections have in part sprung from insights gleaned from a lifetime of covert observation

In Rothko’s Rooms

In Rothko’s Rooms

Deirdre Hines

Ekphrastic poems allow a poet to amplify and expand the meaning of the piece of art being viewed.

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