The Dark by John McGahern

The Dark by John McGahernSet in rural Ireland, John McGahern's second novel is about adolescence and a guilty, yet uncontrollable sexuality that is contorted and twisted by both puritanical state religion and a strange, powerful and ambiguous relationship between son and widower father. Against a background evoked with quiet, undemonstrative mastery, McGahern explores with precision and tenderness a human situation, superficially very ordinary, but inwardly an agony of

Dublin One City One Book 2020

The limits of fifteen-year-old Kambili's world are defined by the high walls of her family estate and the dictates of her fanatically religious father

Offred is a Handmaid

her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis

Written by New Yorker contributor Patrick Radden Keefe

Cad is féidir a dhéanamh

To be interesting is to be noticed and to be noticed is dangerous

In this stunningly illustrated bedtime book

The brutal violence seared not only people like the McConville children

are upended one after the other: first

The trilogy which featured Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies reaches its hotly-anticipated conclusion

This anthology of the best ghost stories from Ireland and Irish writers includes contributions from such masters as Sheridan Le Fanu