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When I was writing my second novel, For the Good Times, it never occurred to [...]
This isn’t a collection of books about drunkenness or alcoholism, though both feature. Rather, it [...]
To the uninitiated, the idea of Irish science fiction seems slightly odd; the country’s culture [...]
About 10 years ago, being a keen but financially constrained reader as well something of [...]
My book On Sheep: Diary of a Swedish Shepherd is a memoir about my move [...]
In this age of smartphones and digital media, it’s been a joy and a wonder [...]
Japan has a birthday this year. It’s 150 years since rebel samurai overthrew the old [...]
I had not intended to write a first world war novel. But the physician protagonist [...]
In historical fiction, as in all things, fashions come and go. As we near the [...]
In some ways, our dealings with death have changed beyond recognition since the birth of [...]
A really successful poetry anthology needs two essential ingredients: pace and rhythm. The editor has [...]
Old Shanghai, the city that existed between the two world wars, is a conundrum. Not [...]