Martin Doyle Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Kevin Power on Affinities by Brian Dillon:”evanescence is one of the modes of beauty. It is, indeed, the mode of beauty through which Affinities operates. It is a self-portrait of the critic as, evanescently but beautifully, an artist in his own right.” https://t.co/5ETnO08Uis

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Denis Lehane and a journey through the dark heart of Irish-American racism - Mystic River author’s new novel, Small Mercies, revisits the era of desegregation in Southie, the Boston neighbourhood where he grew up. He talks to ⁦@hmckervey⁩ https://t.co/jH5zUopW4p

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A young woman accepts a lift from a stranger. Read the latest short story in our summer series - Hitch by Catherine Ryan Howard, author of 56 Days, winner of Irish Crime Novel of the Year. Her latest, Run Time, is published today. ⁦@cathryanhoward⁩ https://t.co/TAnAoXW9oq

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Sally Hayden: ‘You have to be careful not to let your empathy or your humour be torn away’ – a Q&A with the author of Irish Book of the Year winner My Fourth Time, We Drowned, which looks at efforts by the rich world to stop refugees from seeking safety https://t.co/kevoHp1uF8

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The Seaplane on Final Approach: If moving a character to a foreign world in order to bring about a transformation is a time-worn staple of fiction writers, Rebecca Rukeyser takes that old trick and flies her reader off to a brave new world. ⁦ https://t.co/IWLJ5nfMqO

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Thrust by Lidia Yuknavitch: Prescient, elegiac and epic - An extraordinary receptacle of histories, ethnographies, letters and stories connecting disparate people across generations, says Úna Mannion https://t.co/wjyNaYsD4w

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Louise Kennedy Q&A: ‘I made a ghost of the Troubles in my head and imagined a life for him’. Trespasses is my novel of 2022, so it was a pleasure to do this. ⁦@KennedyLoulou⁩ on Jane Austen, living in Sligo, the Shankill Butchers & the obscenely rich https://t.co/NRL7ChIW1n

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Michelle Gallen makes Encore Award shortlist along with Milk Teeth by Jessica Andrews, Emergency by Daisy Hildyard, Complicit by Winnie M Li and Here Again Now by Okechukwu Nzelu https://t.co/BcSHrrzQTB

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The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell: Gripping story with a passionate protagonist - John Boyne admires another fine historical novel from the author of Hamnet https://t.co/617yLj2VZa

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Haven by Emma Donoghue: Three’s a crowd on Skellig Michael - Ultimately, Haven is a tense portrait of two good men trapped on an island with a third who thinks himself a saint, writes ⁦@sarahgbooks⁩ https://t.co/s7It8tUUGm