BOOKS Westport bookseller and bibliophile Bríd Conroy reviews Marie O’Farrell’s ‘Hamnet’, a fictional retelling of the death of Shakespeare’s son
Behind the Bard
Staying In
Two princes with lessons for all
BOOKS Bríd Conroy on children’s classics ‘The Little Prince’, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and ‘The Happy Prince’, by Oscar Wilde
Bookshop Tertulia up for national award
BOOKS Winners of the Paper Lanterns and Tertulia Books Teen Short Story Competition also announced
Science fiction with real-world lessons
BOOKS Bríd Conroy on her science-fiction favourites – the Dune series by Frank Herbert and the Foundation series by Isaac Asimov
Musical strings to island’s bow
Fifth Achill International Harp Festival to take place online this weekend
Mars, Venus and fiction
BOOKS Bríd Conroy reviews two fictions, ‘Life Without Children’, by Roddy Doyle, and ‘A Man Called Ove’, by Fredrik Backman
Images of Cong captured in new book
Cong and its lore have been captured in a new book by local photographer Elizabeth Toher
Best of the Bookers
BOOKS Bríd Conroy shares her pick for the 2021 Booker Prize and reviews the winner of the 2021 Booker International Prize
The past has lessons for the present
BOOKS Westport bookseller and bibliophile Bríd Conroy on two new historical fictions – Nikola Scott’s ‘The Orchard Girls’ and Louise Fein’s ‘The Hidden Child’
Two moral tales for young readers
BOOKS Westport bookseller and bibliophile Bríd Conroy reviews two great new Irish releases for children
Under confidence, over confidence and self-belief
BOOKS Professor Ian Robertson’s new book is a fascinating, thought-provoking read, writes Bríd Conroy