by NRB | 9 Feb 2023 | Non-fiction |
The author of The Magician is also a skilled essayist, ranging across the personal, religion, and literature. In the first essay in this collection, ‘Cancer: My Part in Its Downfall’, Colm Toibin describes being diagnosed with testicular cancer. At first he ignores...
by NRB | 7 Apr 2022 | Fiction |
The new novel from the author of The Undertaking explores the impact of colonialism on one small island. Mr Lloyd is an artist who describes himself as ‘half married’ to his artist, art-dealer, wife. She now prefers another man and his ‘loud’, ‘declamatory’ art and...
by NRB | 20 Aug 2012 | Fiction |
The strange case of Roger Casement. The ghost of Roger Casement is beating on the door. W B Yeats This a difficult book to review, but not because it’s boring or poorly written – I read it comparatively quickly with great interest – but because it is more like a...
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