French Braid: Enjoyable novel but not Anne Tyler’s finest
This engaging read on the knottiness of family ties is full of wisdom nonetheless
Redhead at the Side of the Road: Isolating yourself one step too far
Anne Tyler is famous for writing extraordinary novels about ordinary people. Her latest is no different
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Winter has its icy grip on the garden leaving little for the gardener to do except pick up a good book
Leading authors tell Man Booker to drop American writers
Top Irish writers part of Folio Academy which say prizes should be closed to US novelists
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Ireland’s image as rebel nation where each Catholic suspected of treason persisted for hundreds of years
Ruth Fitzmaurice signs film deal for forthcoming book I Found My Tribe
Fitzmaurice got the book deal after a series of articles in The Irish Times
Eileen Battersby: Booker shortlist not the canvas it could be
‘Big’ may have seduced Man Booker 2015 judges, while Anne Enright left on longlist
Richard Flanagan: war, the Booker and a life more circular
The Tasmanian’s novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North, about Australian POWs doomed to build the Burma Death Railway, is the first great work to win the Booker since 2001
Short story by Samuel Beckett published for first time
Echo’s Bones a relatively minor work, but it’s pungent early Beckett
Literary heroines put through their paces
When author Samantha Ellis decided to review the fictional heroines of her youth for a book, she worried they might not all stand up to scrutiny
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Irish writer makes Man Booker shortlist again as McCann and Ryan lose out
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