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The Irish Book Of The Dead
Great Irish Lives EDITED BY CHARLES LYSAGHT THE TIMES / HARPER COLLINS, £12.99 T he Times had a reputation, especially during the 19th century, of being both antiIrish and......
A Saint’s Instruction Manual For Living
CLASSIC CATHOLIC BOOK An Introduction to the Devout Life BY ST FRANCIS DE SALES I first came across St Francis de Sales from reading Graham Greene. Greene liked the imagery that......
John By Niall Williams (bloomsbury, £7.99)
Born in Dublin, Niall Williams is the author of the best-selling Four Letters of Love and a playwright of some renown in his native Ireland. This, his second novel, is a......
The Last Days Of The Lacuna Cabal By Sean Dixon (harper,...
There’s a strange new genre appearing almost unheralded on our bookshelves: the women’s book club novel. The dramatic improbability of a novel set around a group of middle-aged......
The Secret Life Of Words By Henry Hitchings (john Murray,
£8.99) Humans are not as fast as cheetahs, nor are we as adaptable as bacteria but, alone among creatures, we can use language with an infinite variety. And English is the most......
Northline By Willy Vlautin (faber & Faber, £7.99) Willy...
is lead singer and songwriter in the band Richmond Fontaine but also an accomplished and marvellous novelist. This, his second novel, follows Allison Johnson from her hometown......
Terror And Consent By Philip Bobbit (penguin, £7.99)...
idea we hold about terrorism and its relationship to wars against terror is wrong, says Philip Bobbit. In his massive new book the military historian and political strategist......