Book Reviews
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Chekhov’s fiction, seemingly mundane, has a darkness running through it. Read more
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The rabbits and pheasants from the forests are for the stew, the salmon taken from the rivers is likewise for the table, and the whisky is for weddings and celebrations. It is for their community, and none of it is for selling, not for profit nor for making someone else rich. Read more
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As you’d expect from Ayoade, it is deadpan and awkward, bringing wit, humour and a slice of surrealism to the mundane. Read more
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Dickens satirises the middle classes and those in office that promoted policy that sought to prevent working-class people from marrying and having families. Read more
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The passion and beat of the lines are like the thunderous clapping of a chanting crowd. Read more
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[…] fable-like and pourquoi stories that are funny and entertaining, in which Gray demonstrates the breadth of his talent as a writer. Read more
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The book gives testament to the bravery of ordinary men and women […] who stood up to face legal threat and military violence in the face of famine and destitution. Read more
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John Guthrie is a mean-spirited and brutal man, bringing with him a constant threat of physical, mental and sexual abuse, all in the name of ‘The Kirk’. Read more
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“How quickly we could find ourselves nervously passing a checkpoint or dreading the whistle of bombshells in the night.” Read more
Iain Mac Lachlainn 