Is it time to ditch the book blurb?
As an author, I loathe asking for blurbs — most of us hate the cringe-making business of approaching your peers for a favour that eats into their precious writing hours — and sometimes struggle to ...
Novelist Natasha Brown: there’s ‘debate about what’s universal and what’s niche’
The prizewinning author of ‘Assembly’ on social class, her new novel ‘Universality’ — and why she might return to working in ...
The Persians — Sanam Mahloudji’s moving, madcap saga of women in exile
A relentlessly entertaining exploration of Iranian-American immigrant life, longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction ...
Simon Schama on John & Paul — a wonderful Beatles love story
FREE TO READ] Thought there was nothing more to know about Lennon and McCartney? Ian Leslie’s fine book reanimates the power ...
The 100 best Irish books of the 21st century: No 25 to No 1
A panel of more than 60 experts (authors, critics, academics, festival curators and booksellers) select their favourite Irish ...
The Irish Times12d
The 100 best Irish books of the 21st century: No 100 to No 51
is often my reaction when presented with any “Best ... books had inspired the deepest love. On Friday, we will publish numbers 50 to 26 and on Saturday we will reveal the top 25 Irish fiction ...
Aleksei Navalny Among National Book Critics Circle Award Winners
A posthumous memoir by the Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, which detailed his fight against autocracy and ...
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The 100 best Irish books of the 21st century: how we made the list and what it says about the state of Irish fiction
The 100 best Irish books of the 21st century ... with only two ranking points separating the winner and the second-placed book. Fiction about the Northern conflict used to be regard as a turn ...
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Can Bibliotherapy Drive Book Sales?
In a presentation at the London Book Fair, a BookScan analyst said that many of the trends that led to a small sales increase ...
The Irish Times9d
March’s best young adult fiction: deeply satisfying reads
The best writers give us a couple of compelling ... A deeply satisfying read. Nineteen-year-old Elisabeth has a list of people she does not trust, and high on that list are medical professionals ...