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Paging Mr Eliot…

TS Eliot: After the Wasteland by Robert Crawford THIS IS big book. In fact, taken with its first volume, Robert Crawford could be said to have produced the definitive biography of TS Eliot. And it’s one that’s sorely needed. If there’s one literary figure of the 20th century in need of some re-evaluation then it’s […]

Cailean McBride 
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I want candy…

The Candy House by Jennifer Egan Jennifer Egan’s 2010 A Visit from the Goon Squad is rightly considered one of the key novels of the post-millennium period. It wouldn’t be a stretch to say that it touched the zeitgeist of the time, particularly in terms of discussion about how the internet, and digital technology in […]

Cailean McBride 
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Dark Entries…

How High We Go In The Dark by Sequioa Nagamatsu There seem to be two dominant schools of thought as to how the Covid pandemic is going to affect literature, from an artistic rather than an economic point of view. Will readers want to avoid anything disease and pandemic-related, opting instead for escapism from the […]

Cailean McBride 
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Music. Betrayal. Murder.

Johnny Heretic is dead. An era-defining rock legend, turned international icon, the entire world apparently mourns his passing. Not least Belinda Cassidy, fading music journo and Johnny's former childhood friend. But as she delves into her memories and into the history of Johnny's chequered career, is she in danger of finding something much more sinister? Something including murder?

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