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Donald Clarke: Stop me if you think you’ve heard this one before
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Iris Murdoch, Edna O’Brien, Marian Keyes and Eimear McBride all appear on the list
Maeve Brennan: loneliness elevated to an art form
Eileen Battersby reviews The Long-Winded Lady, Maeve Brennan’s New Yorker sketches, as part of our extensive coverage marking today's centenary of her birth
Fintan O’Toole’s top British novels
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Mad men and women in fiction
From Jane Eyre’s madwoman in the attic to Captain Ahab in Moby Dick and Francie in The Butcher Boy, madness is a recurring and compelling theme in literature
Brought to Book: Linda Spalding on her literary life
‘I had to remould my brain to write “The Follow”. It involved three trips to Borneo and years of reading and studying and thinking hard about human beings and our place in the natural world’
Ten great opening lines in literature
These are some of our favourite opening lines - could you write one of your own? Post it in the comment box below. We might even find a suitable prize for the best or funniest
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