A quiet story of personal crisis that swells into tumultuous tide of history
Hugo Hamilton’s latest novel, Conversations with the Sea, centres on Lukas Dorn, a forlorn, lonesome middle-aged German man…
Punished by a kindness to strangers
The novel opens with TikToker Elly Parker heading through Grand Central Station to an important meeting. She has…
Humour and author’s voice stand out in collection
Although rarely out of fashion, the Irish short story has experienced something of a renaissance in the last…
Labyrinthine plot a lottery offering a frothy concoction
This mystery story involving a missing multimillion-dollar artefact is, for all its high stakes and cast of colourful,…
A very readable and expertly paced quest for a past love in post-apocalyptic London
Migraine, Samuel Fisher’s third novel, is short, tense, and punchy. The story follows two male characters, Ellis and…