fiction
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It wasn’t just the Scots in which Irvine Welsh delivered Trainspotting and subsequent novels, it was the colloquial mannerisms, the vernacular of a demographic in a certain time and place. 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
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Sometimes, when you hear a new song on the radio, you instantly recognise the guitar. Even if you’ve never heard the song before, you know the guitarist from the unique sound of their telecaster or from the way that they are picking the strings. Read more
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I can’t think of a more obvious way to be inspired to write than to love reading. Even if you have a story to tell, you must still need inspiration of how to tell that story? My mother encouraged me to read, and read I did. I love to read, I read every day and… Read more
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by Richard Powers This is an engaging and frightening novel about forests and the price that some people are willing to pay to bring attention to the catastrophe that is unfolding on our planet. The novel is structured in such a way that we are introduced to (the ‘Roots’ of) a handful of diverse characters… Read more
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As a child I read at the kitchen table with my fingers in my ears and held the book open with my elbows. I read Roald Dahl and Agaton Sax and The Hardy Boys. I found a friend in Charlie Bucket and Danny, The Champion of the World. I found suspense and excitement with Agaton… Read more
Iain Mac Lachlainn 