On 1 October Prestel publishes The Impossible Museum: The Best Art You’ll Never See by Celine Delavaux. [Read more…] about The Impossible Museum
Clarus Press Publishes Neighbours and the Law
Clarus Press has launched the first publication in Ireland to deal specifically with the range of legal issues that arises between neighbours. The newly published law book entitled “Neighbours and the Law” provides an up-to-date analysis of neighbourhood law guiding the reader through the many intricacies and pitfalls. [Read more…] about Clarus Press Publishes Neighbours and the Law
Blind Man’s Bluff – Aidan Higgins
Blind Man’s Bluff measures no more than 60 pages, many of which are filled with old photographs, collages and scribbled portraits. Continue reading
Leaving The Atocha Station – Ben Lerner
“My inability to grasp or be grasped by the poem in Spanish so resembled my inability to grasp or be grasped by the poem in English that I felt, in this respect, like a native speaker.” Continue reading
New Zealand writers – a short introduction
New Zealand’s diverse literary tradition owes as much to its rich Māori and Polynesian heritage as it does to its pioneering history.
Before the printed word, story-telling and oratory captured the stories of Aotearoa New Zealand. The first book was published in New Zealand in 1830. [Read more…] about New Zealand writers – a short introduction
Philosophy and life—an inescapable connection
Philosophy is often regarded as impractical, something separate from “real life”—whatever that might be! Actually, as author Edward Craig writes in the interesting book Philosophy – a very short introduction (Oxford, 2002): “In fact philosophy is extremely hard to avoid, even with conscious effort.” Craig makes this claim because, a…
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Catch Up With Dickens
The great great great grand-daughter of Charles Dickens, author Lucinda Dickens Hawksley, is to give a talk about the man behind the classic novels at His Majesty’s Theatre in Aberdeen this November. [Read more…] about Catch Up With Dickens
From Apartheid to Zaamheid – a book review
In the midst of the furore of the Limpopo textbook crisis and the gloom of the world’s economic failures a book arrived serendipitously on my desk and helped to keep my spirits positive. From Apartheid to Zaamheid is a readable and practical book about making a difference, being a positive force for change in South […]
Book Review: The Great Explorer
Dublin based illustrator Chris Judge won the Irish Children’s Book Award last year for his debut The Lonely Best and … Continue reading
Zona – Geoff Dyer
There are no stools. Continue reading
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