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Northern Ireland: the Booker and Beyond

In October of 2018, Anna Burns became the first writer from Northern Ireland to win the Man Booker Prize, with her Troubles-set novel...

Apr 23, 2019

Last night I had the pleasure of being at the Portuguese Ambassador’s Residence in London for the launch of Clara Macedo Cabral’s novel A...

Mar 15, 2019

With chants of ‘oh Jeremy Corbyn’ ringing out around Glastonbury last weekend, the formerly unpopular Labour leader is the man of the...

Jun 29, 2017

Following on from the previous post, in this entry I am delighted to present my own translation of an extract from the novel discussed...

May 17, 2017

Sport and fiction don’t always mix well. The attraction of sport is that the drama is real, truly unscripted and unpredictable;...

May 9, 2017

Fish and trees are alike (p7) Recently as part of a module on my masters course we were given an interesting task: we were let loose in...

Apr 22, 2017