Even the Dead once more follows John Banville's pathologist creation Quirke through a journey into the seedy underground world of murder in 1950s Dublin. Although the Quirke series is essentially in the crime fiction drama, Even the Dead is much more than a page-turning thriller. By this seventh book in the Quirke series Banville has made the pathologist, and the life he lives and people he is close to, the prime focus of the novel with the whodunit taking a lesser focus by far.
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29 June 2015
Book Review: Even The Dead - Benjamin Black
John Banville, writing under the pen name Benjamin Black, returns with his seventh Quirke novel Even the Dead.
Even the Dead once more follows John Banville's pathologist creation Quirke through a journey into the seedy underground world of murder in 1950s Dublin. Although the Quirke series is essentially in the crime fiction drama, Even the Dead is much more than a page-turning thriller. By this seventh book in the Quirke series Banville has made the pathologist, and the life he lives and people he is close to, the prime focus of the novel with the whodunit taking a lesser focus by far.
Even the Dead once more follows John Banville's pathologist creation Quirke through a journey into the seedy underground world of murder in 1950s Dublin. Although the Quirke series is essentially in the crime fiction drama, Even the Dead is much more than a page-turning thriller. By this seventh book in the Quirke series Banville has made the pathologist, and the life he lives and people he is close to, the prime focus of the novel with the whodunit taking a lesser focus by far.27 March 2015
Book Review: Unravelling Oliver - Liz Nugent
Unravelling Oliver is a chilling and compelling debut by Irish author Liz Nugent
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Books that you are compelled to read through in one sitting are not that common but Liz Nugent's Unravelling Oliver requires a day of no other plans as this is a novel you won't want to put down from start to finish.
Books that you are compelled to read through in one sitting are not that common but Liz Nugent's Unravelling Oliver requires a day of no other plans as this is a novel you won't want to put down from start to finish.
15 October 2014
Book Review: Two More Pints - Roddy Doyle
Roddy Doyle follows up his extremely original Two Pints with Two More Points where the renowned Booker Prize winning writer explores everything from Kate Middleton to Barack Obama in his very unique way...
Like its predecessor, Two More Pints revolves solely around two old chaps, clearly Dublin natives, sitting at the bar once a week discussing a very wide variety of subjects older Irish men may discuss after a couple of pints.
Like its predecessor, Two More Pints revolves solely around two old chaps, clearly Dublin natives, sitting at the bar once a week discussing a very wide variety of subjects older Irish men may discuss after a couple of pints.
25 June 2014
Singing the Blues
I spoke to County Down born novelist Eoin McNamee about his novel Orchid Blue, which returns to the familiar territory of his Booker Prize short-listed The Blue Tango in more ways than one.
Based nine years after the death of Patricia Curran and the case that haunted The Blue Tango, with Orchid Blue celebrated author Eoin McNamee returned with two familiar elements in this novel: the murder of a 19 year old girl and the appearance of Judge Lance Curran, the father of Blue Tango's murder victim Patricia, who decides to judge over the trial of the murder of Pearl Gamble.
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