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‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ by James Baldwin – Reading Matters

Fiction – paperback; Penguin Modern Classics; 192 pages; 1994. First published in 1974, James Baldwin's If Beale Street Could Talk is set...

‘Sundays in August’ by Patrick Modiano (translated by Damion Searls) – Reading Matters

Fiction – paperback; Yale University Press; 168 pages; 2017. Translated from the French by Damion Searls. Patrick Modiano's Sundays in August is...

‘Missing Person’ by Patrick Modiano (translated by Daniel Weissbort) – Reading Matters

Fiction – paperback; Penguin Modern Classics; 176 pages; 2019. Translated from the French by Daniel Weissbort. Are we the product of our...

‘Trespasses’ by Louise Kennedy – Reading Matters

Fiction – Kindle edition; Bloomsbury Circus; 320 pages; 2022. Winner of the An Post Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year 2022...

2023 Stella Prize shortlist – Reading Matters

Earlier today, the shortlist for the 2023 Stella Prize was announced. The titles, in alphabetical order by author's surname, are as follows: We Come With This...

A Visual Guide to Punctuation & Symbols’ by Michael Arndt – Reading Matters

Non-fiction – hardcover; HQ; 160 pages; 2022. And now for something completely different. As a self-confessed "word nerd" (and someone who has just...

‘August is a Wicked Month’ by Edna O’Brien – Reading Matters

Fiction – paperback; Faber & Faber; 208 pages; 2016. Edna O'Brien's fourth novel, August is a Wicked Monthwas first published in 1965...

‘Shirley’ by Ronnie Scott – Reading Matters

Fiction – paperback; Hamish Hamilton; 304 pages; 2023. Review copy courtesy of the publisher. I missed Ronnie Scott's debut The Adversary when...

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