Deborah Lutz’s fresh biography of Emily Brontë is a worthy celebration of a unique author
This Dark Night: The Life of Emily Brontë benefits from access to the writer’s rediscovered poetry notebook and Lutz’s expert reappraisals of her poems
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Full Circle: A History of Cricket – a discussion of the sport’s politics, stars and memorable matches
Dermot Bolger: ‘In Slane I was pinned to a squad car until I recited two Francis Ledwidge poems’
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