Categorie: Irish writer
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Twist
Auteur: Colum McCann Uitgeverij: Uitgeverij De Harmonie Jaar uitgave: 2025 Pagina’s: 303 Coverdesign: Rouwhorst & Van Roon Originele titel: Twist (2025) Vertaling: Martine Vosmaer & Karina van Santen ISBN: 978-9463362269 https://www.deharmonie.nl/titel/twist/ Review: If you gaze long into an abyss… De Ierse journalist Anthony Fennell reist af naar Zuid-Afrika om er een portret te maken over…
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In de Schaduw
Auteur: Liz Nugent Uitgeverij: Aw Bruna / Standaard Uitgeverij Jaar uitgave: 2023 Aantal pagina’s: 367 Coverdesign: Buro Blikgoed Originele titel: Lying in Wait (2018) Vertaling: Valérie Janssen ISBN: 978-9400515505 https://www.awbruna.nl/boek/thrillers/liz-nugent/in-de-schaduw/ Review: (Dutch) Het is 1980, Ierland. Annie Doyle verdwijnt! De familie Doyle blijft verweesd achter. Ook al hebben ze een problematische relatie met Annie wegens…
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Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Author: Bram Stoker Illustrations: Ben Templesmith Publisher: IDW Publishing Publishing year: 2009 (first published in 1897) Pages: 444 ISBN: 978-1600103780 Review: This has been a doozy, something I quite expected because every time I read a classic novel, I struggle. So I listened to the audiobook while reading it, which made it less tedious, especially…
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So late in the Day
Author: Claire Keegan Publisher: Faber Books Publishing year: Pages: 47 Coverdesign: Faber Cover art: Study No. 5 by Ciara Roche ISBN: 978-0571382019 https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571382019-so-late-in-the-day/ Review: Cathal has another uneventful Friday, July 29th, and he’s about to step into a bus, towards the long weekend. While facing the weekend and during the trip on the bus and…
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Foster
Author: Claire Keegan Publisher: Faber & Faber (Faber Books) Publishing Year: 2010 Pages: 90 Cover: design by Faber (Emma Cownie) ISBN: 978-0571379149 https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571379149-foster/ Review: A father drops his child off at some relatives, the Kinsellas. The girl is suddenly thrown into a bath of warmth and love, such as she has never truly known at…
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Strange Sally Diamond
Author: Liz Nugent Publisher: Penguin Books Publishing year: 2023 Number of pages: 366 ISBN: 978-0241993576 Review: Thomas Diamond had said to Sally: “Put me out with the bins. When I die, put me out with the bins. I’ll be dead, so I won’t know the difference.” So that’s what Sally Diamond did. She put him…
