Welcome to the wonderful world of Chris Ware, a world quite unlike any other you have visited previously. Chris Ware is clearly a unique voice, he is someone working on an unusual […]
Buiding Stories – Chris Ware – Review
Us – David Nicholls – Audible Book Review
Audio book review from Audible – Review by Helen O’Leary Us By David Nicholls (narrated by Justin Salinger) This is the first book by David Nicholls since the huge success of his […]
Black Science – Issues 1 – 8 – Review
Black Science is a new ongoing series from Image Comics by writer Rick Remender and artist Matteo Scalera. As the name would suggest it is a science fiction series, that delves into […]
The Great War – Joe Sacco – Book Review
Joe Sacco – The Great War – Book Review This book is something of a departure for Joe Sacco, known for his graphic novels based on his time as a journalist in […]
Stray Bullets Killers – Issues 5-8 – Review
First of all, may I extol the virtues of being regular! For far too long, Stray Bullets has been an irregular treat, something that you would happen upon in the comic shop, […]
Romping Through Dracula – At It Again – Book Review
Find out more about ‘At it again’ here. At it again have been… at it again! This is the second in the series of handy pocket sized books on the literary classics […]
More Fool Me – Stephen Fry – Audible Review
Audible review: “More Fool Me” Stephen Fry Written and Narrated by: Stephen Fry Mr Stephen Fry brings his third autobiography after “Moab is my Washpot” and “The Fry Chronicles” to the audio […]
Breakfast with the Borgias – DBC Pierre – Book Review
Breakfast with the Borgias by DBC Pierre Review by Conor O’Carroll The story starts with Ariel, a computer scientist, and Zeva, his student, who have arranged an illicit meeting at an international […]
Sally Heathcote: Suffragette – Mary Talbot – Book Review
Sally Heathcote – Suffragette – Mary Talbot , Kate Charlesworth , Bryan Talbot This is the second collaboration between Mary and Bryan Talbot, the first was Dotter of her Father’s Eyes, the […]
The New World – Andrew Motion – Book Review
The New World – Andrew Motion – Book Review – By Helen O’Leary Andrew Motion is a former British Poet Laureate so it is with interest I read his foray into fiction […]
70×70 – Unlicensed Preaching – Iain Sinclair – Book Review
Iain Sinclair – 70×70 – Unlicensed Preaching: A Life Unpacked in 70 Films Reviewed by David Turpin Labelled by its author as a “novel of delicious fragments” and a “cubist self-portrait assembled […]
The Last Foundling – Tom H. Mackenzie – Book Review
The Last Foundling – A little boy left behind, The mother who wanted him back – Tom H. Mackenzie – Review by Frances Winston Published by Pan and MacMillan This book could […]
The Axeman’s Jazz – Ray Celestin – Book Review
The Axeman’s Jazz by Ray Celestin – Review by Frances Winston Published by Panmacmillan The Axeman was a real serial killer who murdered six people in New Orleans between 1918 and 1919 […]
Polina – Bastien Vivès – Book Review
Polina by Bastien Vivès is publised by Random House. Polina was written and illustrated by Bastien Vivès in 2011 and published in France by Casterman. It was recently published by Jonathan Cape […]
Jim Henson: The Biography – Brian Jay Jones – Review
Jim Henson: The Biography by Brian Jay Jones – Review by Mary Donnelly For those of us who grew up in the seventies and eighties, with access to a television, Sunday nights […]
Sweet Tooth – Ian McEwan – Book Review
Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan – Reveiew by Helen O’Leary This is an upper middle class tale set in 1970’s England. Serena Frome, the daughter of a bishop is recruited into MI5 […]
Fables – Cubs in Toyland – Review
Fables – Volume 18 – Review If you’re reading this review, it’s safe to say you know what Fables is about. If not, it’s the characters from fairytales living in New York […]
‘Roy Jenkins – A Well-Rounded Life’ – John Campbell – Book Review
‘Roy Jenkins – A Well-Rounded Life’ – John Campbell – Jonathan Cape – £30 Roy Jenkins is a titan of British politics that most under 40s in Ireland will never heard of. […]
Sandman – Overture – #1-3 – Review
We were greeted some months ago with the news that Neil Gaiman would return to the place where he made his name. The original Sandman series finished in 1996 with number 75, […]
The Unexpected Professor – John Carey – Book Review
‘The Unexpected Professor – An Oxford Life in Books’ – Review by Dan O’Neill John Carey is one of the pre-eminent communicators of literature of the last 30 years. His memoirs show […]
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves – Karen Joy Fowler – Review
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler – Review by Helen O’Leary Everyone thinks his or her own family a little strange but it’s hard to rival the peculiar […]
Mrs. Hemingway – Naomi Wood – Review
This is the story of four women, all very different in nature, all connected by one man. The book is broken into four parts with each telling the tale of one of […]
The Child – Sebastian Fitzek – Audible Review
The Child: An Audible Drama – Review by Paul McD Author: Sebastian Fitzek Narrator(s): Rupert Penry-Jones, Jack Boulter, Emilia Fox, Stephen Marcus, Robert Glenister, Andy Serkis A ten year old child thinks […]
Neil Gaiman – The Ocean at the End of the Lane – Review
Neil Gaiman, ‘ The Ocean at the End of the Lane’ – Review by Stuart Cross – ISBN 978-1-4722-0034-1 Neil Gaiman is on the Internet’s high score list. He is up there […]
The Sound of Things Falling – Juan Gabriel Vasquez
The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vasquez – Review by Helen O’Leary In his acceptance speech for the 2014 IMPAC literary award Juan Gabriel Vasquez spoke of his motivation in […]
The Silkworm – Robert Galbraith – Audible Review
The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith The Silkworm is the latest in the private detective series by J. K. Rowling published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. The book seems all set to become […]
Here are the Young Men – Rob Doyle – Book Review
‘Here are the Young Men’ – Rob Doyle – Lilliput – Review by Dan O’Neill Rob Doyle has good form as a writer; anyone with work published in The Dublin Review and […]
Stray Bullets Killers – David Lapham – Review
Stray Bullets Killers – Issues 1-4 – Written and Drawn by David Lapham I’ve had a soft spot in my heart for Stray Bullets ever since I found issue one in a […]
The Thing About December – Donal Ryan – Book Review
The thing about December is Donal Ryan’s first novel, even though it was the second to be published. As he says himself, he sent it to over 47 publishers who all rejected […]
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