The Last by Hanna Jameson
Published by Viking If a story about survivors stuck in a hotel in Switzerland directly after world annihilation will affect you in any way, it could well be the regret … Continue reading
Dream Sequence by Adam Foulds
Published by Jonathan Cape It’s sometimes fun to wonder, to daydream, as a bit of escapism, what your favourite actors or musicians or writers, or celebrities in general are doing … Continue reading
Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss
Published by Granta For those of us with a junior cert level appreciation of the Iron Age, we tend to think of it as a time of pre-Christian farmers and … Continue reading
Hazards of Time Travel by Joyce Carol Oates
Fourth Estate Arguably, if there’s anything we need less of in the dawn of 2019 it’s more doomy and gloomy speculative glimpses into the future, where what’s happening in the … Continue reading
TV Viewpoint: The ABC Murders
We’re just about emerging from what has become known variously as “the Fallow”, “Twixtmas” and, one I picked up on this year and would prefer not enter the otherwise fittingly … Continue reading
My Treat
A seasonal story by Aoife B. Burke, first published in The Tuam Herald on 19th December, 2018 “Now ladies, put your purses away, this is my treat”. If there is … Continue reading
My 2018 Book Picks
If there’s a better last minute gift than a book (if there’s a better gift than a book full stop) then I’ve yet to find it. Besides the usual seasonal … Continue reading
