BOOK TALK Book sales are up and romance and sagas are selling like hot cakes, writes Westport bookseller and avid reader Bríd Conroy
For the love of reading
Staying In
Pondering family bonds
BOOKS Westport bookseller and bibliophile Bríd Conroy reviews Kathleen McMahon’s ‘The Home Scar’ and Nino Haratischvili’s ‘My Soul Twin’
Brigid, Dymphna, Fanchea and more
BOOKS Bríd Conroy reviews ‘Saint Brigid and Other Amazing Irish Women’, by Lorraine Mulholland, and ‘In Ordinary Time’, by Carmel McMahon
Belmullet singer in tonight’s Glór Tíre semi-final
MUSIC Schoolteacher and country singer Seán Fahy is setting the show alight
Two classics to dissect
BOOKS Bríd Conroy delves into two classics, ‘Crossing the Mangrove’, by Maryse Conde, and ‘Sula’, by Toni Morrison
Heroes and connections
BOOKS Horan’s debut book is a thought-provoking collection of mini dramas and a perfect mid-morning read
Books to sustain you in 2023
BOOKS Westport bookseller and bibliophile Bríd Conroy on two books for starting out the new year on the right foot
Companions through the seasons
BOOKS Bookseller Bríd Conroy on the fiction, nonfiction and children’s books that have flown off the shelves this year
Books for lists and stockings
BOOKS Bríd Conroy shares her book picks for her Santa list and stocking fillers this Christmas
Chronicling Castlebar’s history
CULTURE Noel Campbell and John Healy’s book is a fascinating, thorough history of Mayo’s county town
Helping us see the world anew
BOOKS Bríd Conway looks at two books on the Irish Book Awards shortlist: ‘Speechless’, by Fiacre Ryan, and ‘An Irish Atlantic Rainforest’, by Eoghan Daltun