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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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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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writing has to be honest, and that genuine emotion has to come from the writer 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
Iain Mac Lachlainn 