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‘I shall continue to write novels, but I will never write another like The Singularities’, writes the Booker Prize winner
Characters from the crime writer’s Strafford and Quirke series join forces in this latest whodunnit that will have readers hooked
Plot is forgotten as the Booker-winning author revels in language and revisits the world of ‘The Infinities’
The Booker-winner’s second detective novel under his own name sees Dr Quirke return for a sun-kissed crime caper in San Sebastián
Laura Battle selects her must-read titles
The Irish writer casts off his Benjamin Black disguise for his latest murder mystery
A new translation of the investigator’s final adventure completes a monument to one of the 20th century’s greatest writers
Rebecca Rose selects her must-read titles
An absorbing homage to Henry James’s ‘Portrait of a Lady’
The author’s self-portrait evokes the hard-hearted, heartbroken anti-heroes of his fiction
Christopher de Hamel’s journey around 12 of the most precious medieval texts
A compelling amalgam of realism, dreaminess and white-hot fury
An Irish painter reflects on his past misdeeds in this moving, autumnal novel
The enduring fascination of Ireland’s monastic masterpiece, the Book of Kells
Over wood-roasted sea bass and citron pressé, the novelist talks about family secrets and the oddness of his books being on his son’s school curriculum
A story about a ‘nympheur’ and how time and death have made him sensitive to the plight of women
This week’s films reviewed: ‘Albert Nobbs’, ‘Avengers Assemble’, ‘Damsels in Distress’, ‘African Cats’, ‘The Monk’, ‘Being Elmo’ and ‘Outside Bet’
The Literary Review’s Bad Sex in Fiction Award may provoke sniggers. But its real aim is to help banish poor prose
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