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Minor Black Figures: a searingly intelligent critique of contemporary culture
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Four Night Seas by Niamh Mac Cabe: A quiet, subtle capturing of cultural identity without resort to cliche
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Dolores Keane will forever be the sound of the second time continuity and change coincided in Ireland
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Rory O’Connor biography by Gerard Shannon: A rigorous and impeccably balanced portrait
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The Woman in the Water by Henrietta McKervey: Gothic thriller reopens familiar mystery
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Fog Bells: A flavour of the depth and richness of the poetry currently being written in Turkish
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Anna Burns: ‘When I got damaged in surgery, nothing else mattered. I’ve always lived in survival mode’
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