Book Reviews
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Affluent characters that chat inanely about celebs while the poverty-stricken underclass, desperate for work, are forced to prostitute themselves (as the least they will do) as they turn on each other in a bid to survive their bleak existence. Read more
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Mortimer’s off-beat comedy comes through strongly in the narrative. Read more
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Heathcliff looms large over the wild and desolate Yorkshire moors and the dark house where he receives sanctuary in Brontë’s master study in character. Read more
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Shafak writes beautiful prose and tells this relevant story through two voices. Read more
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A short fiction collection consisting of six New York stories and a novella set in Los Angeles. Read more
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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
Iain Mac Lachlainn 