Beryl Bainbridge drew on her own life for her funny, dark novels
Two of the British writer’s best works, The Bottle Factory Outing and An Awfully Big Adventure, are republished this month
By John Self
Author Henrietta McKervey: ‘I do like a good murder’
A Holocaust survivor’s essential book for anyone concerned with law or human rights
Poems of the Week: Ethiopia to Pluto & Morning Languor
Gethan Dick wins Kate O’Brien Award
The Lock-Keeper’s Wife by John MacKenna: Menopausal protagonist brought low by a lousy husband
What Dev did next: The lasting legacy of Ireland’s actions at the end of the second World War
Rousseau’s Lost Children by Gavin McCrea: Devastating intimacies exposed
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POETRY
Field Notes from an Extinction by Eoghan Walls: Compelling story of survival and apocalypse
By Neil Hegarty
‘I did imagine an older Prince Charming coming into my life’: Gavin McCrea on walking in Paris with Rousseau
By Naoise Dolan
Author Cathy Kelly: ‘I doubt there’s a writer alive who hasn’t used personal battles in their work’
By Martin Doyle
The Disappearing Act by Maria Stepanova and Sasha Dugdale: A slim novella of disconnection
By Rachel Andrews
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How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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