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‘The Mammy’ by Brendan O’Connell
Fiction – paperback; The O’Brien Press; 174 pages; 1994. The Mammy is Irish comedian Brendan O’Connell’s first book. It’s a very simple tale about a widow struggling to raise seven children on...
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‘The Yacoubian Building’ by Alaa As Aswany
Fiction – hardcover; Fourth Estate; 272 pages; 2007. Translated from the Arabic by Humphrey Davies. The Yacoubian Building has been a best seller in its native Egypt and throughout the Arabic world...
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‘The Gathering’ by Anne Enright
Fiction – hardcover; Jonathan Cape; 261 pages; 2007. Grim and disturbing are the first words that spring to mind when describing Anne Enright’s Booker shortlisted The Gathering. But admid the dark,...
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‘The Guts’ by Roddy Doyle
Fiction – hardcover; Jonathan Cape; 328 pages; 2013. Review copy courtesy of the publisher. Roddy Doyle’s Barrytown Trilogy — The Commitments (published in 1987), The Snapper (1990) and The Van (1991)...
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‘The Mussel Feast’ by Birgit Vanderbeke
Fiction – paperback; Peirene; 105 pages; 2013. Translated from the German by Jamie Bulloch. Review copy courtesy of the publisher. Birgit Vanderbeke’s The Mussel Feast is a classic in the author’s...
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‘The Ever After of Ashwin Rao’ by Padma Viswanathan
Fiction – hardcover; Penguin Canada; 374 pages; 2014. Padma Viswanathan’s second novel, The Ever After of Ashwin Rao, has been shortlisted for this year’s Giller Prize. The Ashwin Rao of the title is...
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‘Dollar Bahu’ by Sudha Murty
Fiction – paperback; Penguin; 142 pages; 2007. Sudha Murty’s Dollar Bahu is a rather sweet, if overly moralistic, novella that explores the age-old notion that the grass is not always greener on the...
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‘Everything I Never Told You’ by Celeste Ng
Fiction – Kindle edition; Penguin; 297 pages; 2014. Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet. 1977, May 3, six thirty in the morning, no one knows anything but this innocuous fact: Lydia is late...
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‘Road Ends’ by Mary Lawson
Fiction – hardcover; Chatto & Windus; 320 pages; 2014. Review copy courtesy of the publisher. Mary Lawson’s Road Ends, which was longlisted for this year’s Folio Prize, is set in the fictional...
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