Seven Steeples
Published last month by Tramp Press, Sara Baume's latest novel imagines what life might look like if you pretended the...
10th May 2022
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Coming Down to Earth
Róisín Á Costello tracks the corncrake through story and history, mud and ink. Image taken from 'Groups of Birds: Twenty-five...26th March 2022
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Dance Move
Wendy Erskine's second short story collection conjures an achingly beautiful topography of the everyday, writes Aimée Walsh. After her critically...9th February 2022
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Shadows and Reflections
It’s time once again for the annual end-of-year musings we like to call Shadows and Reflections. Today Kerri ní Dochartaigh looks back...24th December 2021
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Cyprus Avenue
An extract from Stuart Bailie's '75 Van Songs', which celebrates the work of Van Morrison in a milestone year. Cyprus...23rd February 2021
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Thin Places
An extract from Kerri ní Dochartaigh's Thin Places — our Book of the Month for January, published today by Canongate....28th January 2021
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The Caught by the River Book of the Month: January
Will Burns reviews 'Thin Places', an astounding and much-anticipated debut from Kerri ní Dochartaigh. Sometimes it is possible for a...13th January 2021
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That Old Country Music
Published last month by Canongate, 'That Old Country Music' — by 'Night Boat to Tangier' author Kevin Barry — is...7th November 2020
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Gone Fishin’ With Van Morrison
In an extract from his book '75 Van Songs', Stuart Bailie considers the fishing trip at the centre of Van...26th August 2020
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Bird’s egg (smashed)
An extract from Darran Anderson's astonishing Inventory, recently published by Chatto & Windus. A peregrine falcon used to soar above...15th March 2020
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Threading Bone onto Soul
Kerri ní Dochartaigh reviews Darran Anderson's astounding memoir Inventory - a tale of Derry, the Troubles, loss, grief and survival....6th March 2020
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Shadows and Reflections: Kerri ní Dochartaigh
It’s time once again for the annual series of postings we like to call Shadows and Reflections, in which our...12th January 2020
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Bleach and Bone, Stone and Skin
Wendy Erskine's debut, Sweet Home - a collection of short stories set in contemporary Belfast - was originally published by...30th June 2019
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Shadow Birds
From a Derry council estate in the 1990s to the Brick Lane of today, Kerri ní Dochartaigh writes on the...13th April 2019
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Lighthouses of the UK #9: Donaghadee
Illustrator Ben Langworthy continues his mission to draw each of the 300+ lighthouses which pepper the UK coastline The Donaghadee...28th October 2018
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Landless - Bleaching Bones
Cally Callomon gets his ears around 'Bleaching Bones', the debut album from four-part harmony group Landless. Voices; voices sing words,...16th July 2018
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Lighthouses of the UK #4 & #5: The Maidens
Illustrator Ben Langworthy continues his mission to draw each of the 300+ lighthouses which litter the UK coastline Sitting just 800...29th May 2018
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The Bird Effect Diaries
In the second of two Bird Effect updates from Ireland, Ceri Levy encounters Sooty Shearwaters, Bonxies, Storm Petrels, and even...20th January 2018