Like Magic In The Streets – Tim Blanchard – Book Review by Killian Laher From time to time a music book appears that just captures the mood of the time it attempts […]
Like Magic In The Streets – Tim Blanchard – Book Review
Shuggie Bain – Douglas Stuart – Audible Book Review
Shuggie Bain – Douglas Stuart – Audible Book Review Shuggie Bain is the first novel by Douglas Stuart. It was published in 2020 and went on to win the Booker Prize in […]
Boys Don’t Cry – Fiona Scarlett – Audible Book Review
Boys Don’t Cry – Fiona Scarlett – Audible Book Review by Pat Viale Set in a rough tower block in inner-city Dublin, ironically named after Mother Teresa, Fiona Scarlett’s remarkable début novel […]
Willy Vlautin – The Night Always Comes – Book Review
Willy Vlautin – The Night Always Comes – Book Review by Killian Laher If you’re familiar with Willy Vlautin’s books, or his songs with former band Richmond Fontaine or the Delines, you’ll […]
The Lamplighters – Emma Stonex – Audible Book Review
The Lamplighters – Emma Stonex – Audible Book Reviewby Pat Viale Based on the real-life disappearance of a group of lighthouse keepers on the Flannan Isles in the Outer Hebrides in 1900, […]
This Mournable Body – Tsitsi Dangarembga – Audible Book Review
This Mournable Body – Tsitsi Dangarembga – Audible Book Review This Mournable Body By: Tsitsi Dangarembga Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo – Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins This book was nominated for […]
Klara and the Sun – Kazuo Ishiguro – Audible Book Review
Klara and the Sun – Kazuo Ishiguro – Audible Book Review by Patrick Viale To be in any way critical of a new novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, especially since his winning the […]
A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson – Audible Book Review
A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson – Audible Book Review Review by Patrick Viale Available on Audible Since the publication of her first novel, “Crow Lake”, at the age of 55, […]
The Book of Koli – M. R. Carey – Audible Book Review
The Book of Koli – M. R. Carey – Audible Book Review by Pat Viale Set sometime in the future, “The Book of Koli” is the first of a trilogy of novels […]
Exit – Audible Book Review – Belinda Bauer
Exit – Audible Book Review – Belinda Bauer Felix Pink is a decent man. A kind man. A man of integrity. However, when we first meet him in Belinda Bauer’s new thriller […]
The Three-Body Problem – Liu Cixin – Audible Book Review
The Three-Body Problem – Liu Cixin – Audible Book Review The Three-Body Problem is the first book in the Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy which was written by Liu Cixin. It was […]
Radio Life – Derek B Miller – Audible Book Review
Radio Life – Derek B Miller – Audible Book Review by Pat Viale Since the publication of Mary Shelley’s “The Last Man” in 1826, post-apocalyptic and dystopian tales have caught the popular […]
The Odd Women – George Gissing – Audible Book Review
The Odd Women – George Gissing – Audible Book Review by Patrick Viale In Dublin’s Mount Jerome Cemetery a headstone bears a poignant epitaph erected by “The Home for Aged Governesses and […]
The Man Who Never Was – Mark Dawson – Audible Book Review
The Man Who Never Was – Mark Dawson – Audible Book Review by Pat Viale From the jungles of Colombia to the drug dens of Amsterdam, Mark Dawson’s latest thriller, his 16th […]
The Children’s Train – Viola Ardone – Audible Book Review
The Children’s Train – Viola Ardone – Audible Book Review by Pat Viale Translated by Clarissa Botsford The news in Ireland has been dominated in recent weeks by the disquieting facts revealed […]
The Sympathizer – Viet Thanh Nguyen – Audible Book Review
The Sympathizer – Viet Thanh Nguyen – Audible Book Review Narrated by: Francois Chau – Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins The Sympathizer takes the form of a confession from a prison […]
The Reunion – Guillaume Musso – Audible Book Review
The Reunion – Guillaume Musso – Audible Book Review by Patrick Viale In Guillaume Musso’s acclaimed and sophisticated thriller set around a class reunion at an exclusive international school on the Côte […]
One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night – Christopher Brookmyre – Audible Book Review
One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night – Christopher Brookmyre – Audible Book Review by Patrick Viale Read by Angus King It’s been a grim last 12 months! The rollercoaster […]
I’m Thinking of Ending Things – Iain Reid – Audible Book Review
I’m Thinking of Ending Things – Iain Reid – Audible Book Review Book Narrated by Candace Thaxton I’m Thinking of Ending Things is the debut novel by Iain Reid, written in 2016. […]
Underground Railroad – Colson Whitehead – Audible Book Review
Underground Railroad – Colson Whitehead – Audible Book Review Narrated by: Bahni Turpin This is the story of Cora, a slave who lives in Georgia during the 19th century. The tale starts […]
A Gentleman in Moscow – Amor Towles – Audible Book Review
A Gentleman in Moscow – Amor Towles – Audible Book Review In this work, we are introduced to Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov. He is a man from a different age. He was […]
Exhalation: Stories – Ted Chiang – Audible Book Review
Exhalation: Stories – Ted Chiang – Audible Book Review Ted Chiang is probably best known for his short story “Story of Your Life”, which was the basis of the film Arrival. He […]
Beatlebone – Kevin Barry – Audible Book Reivew
Beatlebone – Kevin Barry – Audible Book Review Narrated by: Kevin Barry Where can the most famous man in the world find peace and calm? Where can he just be himself without the […]
Mark Lanegan – Sing Backwards and Weep – Book Review
Mark Lanegan – Sing Backwards and Weep – Book Review by Killian Laher There was great excitement for fans of Mark Lanegan with the recent release of his autobiography. First things first, […]
Night Boat to Tangier – Kevin Barry – Audio Book Review
Night Boat to Tangier – Kevin Barry – Audio Book Review Charlie Redmond and Maurice Hearne wait in the Algeciras ferry terminal in southern Spain. They are looking for a woman. ‘She’s […]
Washington Black – Esi Edugyan – Audio Book Review
Washington Black – Esi Edugyan – Audio Book Review Narrated by: Dion Graham Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins Categories: Fiction, Literary We meet George Washington Black as a child, growing up […]
The Overstory – Richard Powers – Audible Book Review
The Overstory – Richard Powers – Audible Book Review When is the best time to plant a tree? Twenty years ago. When is the second best time? Now. This is the story […]
The Pianist Of Yarmouk – Aeham Ahmad – Audiobook Review
The Pianist Of Yarmouk – Aeham Ahmad – Audiobook Review The last seven years have seen almost daily reports of the awful hardships undergone by the people of Syria and the slow […]
Hit Factories by Karl Whitney – Book Review
Hit Factories by Karl Whitney – Book Review by Killian Laher Irish writer Karl Whitney now bases himself in Sunderland, and a couple of years ago embarked on a journey around England, […]
No More Workhorse 