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Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1970

The Circle

Lena’s seemingly contented family life is coming apart at the seams.

Type: Book
Date: 01 Aug 1970

Bomber

The date is 31 June, 1943. An RAF crew prepare for their next bombing raid on Germany. It is a night that many will never forget.

Type: Book

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.

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1970

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.

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1970

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.

Type: Book
Date: 22 Jan 1970

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.

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

Type: Feature
Date: 02 Dec 2024

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

Type: Feature

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

Type: Feature
Date: 02 Oct 2022

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

Type: Feature
Date: 24 Aug 2022

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