The State of Dark by Judith Mok

The State of Dark by Judith MokJudith Mok was born in the Netherlands, to Jewish survivors of the Holocaust. She trained as a classical singer and travelled the world performing as a soloist, while publishing a novel and poetry collection there. For the last twenty years she has been based in Ireland, where she has become the country's leading voice coach, working with classical singers and many international pop stars. In recent years she started to write in English, publishing a

From radical and impetuous I

these meditations celebrate the ever-changing wonder of living

one of the funniest satirical critiques of the Irish Church's attitude to sex which matches any similar attack by Patrick Kavanagh or Austin Clarke

and her relationship with the visual arts

Mumbai and during his retirement in Mt Baldy

was published posthumously in 1976

But the lure of the wilderness and the beguiling beauty of the awaiting glens draw them northwards

soulful intensity

The Sisters Brothers pays homage to the classic Western

and packed with recommendations from one reader to another

comes the first book in The Twitchers

in this exquisite book