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Down All The Days
Part and parcel of a large and boisterous family, he is pushed around the streets of Dublin by his brothers; the small crippled occupant of a boxcar, silently witnessing the city's joys and woes.
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A Place in England
Joseph Tallantire has hope and ambition – like his father before him he is determined to make something of himself and improve his lot.
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A Little Of What You Fancy
In the final book of the series that began with The Darling Buds of May, the fun-loving Pop Larkin finds himself confined to a bed following a mild heart attack - caused by a little too much of what he fancied.
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The Hand-Reared Boy
The tone of The Hand-Reared Boy is lightly humorous, with a sentiment that never drops into sentimentality. It presents without swagger, much that is not easy to accept.
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Claire Keegan on Small Things Like These: 'I wasn’t setting out to write about misogyny or Catholic Ireland'
Claire Keegan discusses the short story that inspired Small Things Like These, the role of restraint in her writing, and why love is at the core of her novel
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Leila Mottley interview: 'There’s never a wrong age to tell the story that is aching inside of you'
With her debut novel longlisted for the Booker Prize 2022, Leila Mottley talks about the true story that inspired Nightcrawling, helping young people to start reading again and trying to be a normal teenager
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Audrey Magee interview: 'I loved being a journalist, but I was searching for a different truth'
With The Colony longlisted for the Booker Prize 2022, Audrey Magee talks about and why her book is more bildungsroman than fable
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Selby Wynn Schwartz interview: 'I wreathed together lives that touched each other in some way'
With After Sappho longlisted for the Booker Prize 2022, Selby Wynn Schwartz talks about the influence of Virginia Woolf, her writing and reading ravenously
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Maddie Mortimer interview: 'When I read the final 20 pages to my family, we all cried'
We spoke to Maddie Mortimer about Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies and the playfulness of poetry, her mother’s diaries and finding inspiration in movies
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Marlene van Niekerk
Marlene van Niekerk is a South African poet and novelist.