Tag: Colm Toibin

  • Irish Writers

    Why are there so many well-known and successful Irish writers, particularly over the last decade I pondered. In a recent (excellent) article I read about Colm Toibin, he acknowledges the energy and power that seem to resonate through Irish fiction and indeed somewhat dominates the Booker long list. Anne Enright and Anna Burns come to […]

  • February 2020

    I wonder how many of you received the book: ‘The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse’ for Christmas? It was Waterstones book of the year and is a very curious publication, picked up by an editor at the Ebury Press from various postings on Instagram. Interesting I think how various digital media actually […]