‘I am so sick of Irish-Americans wishing for an old country they’ve heard about in stories’
Mary Beth Keane describes life growing up as the first-born child of Irish immigrants in America
The Dark Dark review: vibrant renditions of people on the brink
Samantha Hunt’s stories are smart, benevolent explorations of complex emotions
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Life after death makes for an engaging topic in an imaginative and funny debut
Love Me Back, by Merritt Tierce: service with a sabre-tooth smile
This debut novel is a sharply written, brutal depiction of a Dallas waitress’s spiral into a world of misogyny, black-out sex and drug-fuelled binges
Author of Get Shorty, Elmore Leonard, dies aged 87
More than 25 of his works were made into movies or television shows
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