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Book Review – Death by Truffles by Marie Anders
When Marc Bergmann, the city’s local womaniser, shows up dead on a park bench in the middle of Salzburg, the arduous task of narrowing down the long list of possible perpetrators begins. Suspects include his jilted wife Alexia, his furious in-laws who knew he was being unfaithful, Alexia’s childhood friend Jan who evidently harbours very…
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Book Review – The Magician of Lublin by Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Magician of Lublin by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1903 – 1991) was first published in English in 1960, having been translated from Yiddish. In the author’s note of my copy, Singer thanks his editors who ‘for years have encouraged me in the difficult task of introducing Yiddish writing to the American reader’. I found this…
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Interview – Write by the Sea Literary Festival 2021
The autumn festival season is kicking off all around Ireland, and if there is one festival that writers – both established and aspiring – don’t want to miss, it’s Write by the Sea. Based in the picturesque and intimate seaside village of Kilmore Quay, Co. Wexford, Write by the Sea is a festival which delves…
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Interview – Jack Smyth – Book Cover Designer
These days, you don’t even have to take a book off the shelves to enjoy the experience of being in a bookshop. Book covers have become artworks in their own rights, and browsing a well laid out bookshop isn’t unlike being at an exhibition of sorts. The show in question contains everything from bold, colourful…
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Interview – Ellen Hutchins Festival 2021
Aside from being one of the most beautiful parts of Ireland, Bantry Bay (West Cork) and surrounding area is famous for something else that, more than likely, not enough people know about – it was home to Ellen Hutchins (1785 – 1815), Ireland’s first female botanist, and a significant contributor to her particular field of…