Is it better to tell the truth regardless of the consequences? What is the difference between courage and cowardice? Is love always destructive? The Absolutist is a wartime novel centred around the relationship between two young soldiers, Tristan Sadler and…
If you work full time, it is not always easy to find the time to read a long novel between book club meetings and keen readers will often want to have some spare time to read outside the group choices…
Some books just break your heart. This is such a sweet, sad story – very simple in many ways. It calls on the adult reader to suspend disbelief and allow themselves to witness the story unfold through the eyes of…
Earlier this week, St Patrick’s Day set me thinking about contemporary Irish literature and musing on what I would recommend if I had to put together a sampling of fiction for someone wanting to get a taste of modern Irish…