Hints and tips:
...Lionel Barber, FT editor The Light That Failed: A Reckoning (Allen Lane, RRP£20) is a brilliant, original book on the crisis of modern liberalism....
...Claire Messud Author of ‘The Woman Upstairs’ One of the most powerful and resonant books I’ve read this year is Edna O’Brien’s haunting novel The Little Red Chairs (Faber)....
...Australia gave us Dame Edna Everage and Paul Hogan (which is not much, really, but I did not want to leave them out and hurt their feelings)....
...The Little Red Chairs, by Edna O’Brien, Faber, RRP£18.99 Inspired by Radovan Karadzic’s disguise while on the run, The Little Red Chairs starts with the arrival of a bearded stranger, “Dr Vladimir Dragan...
...Country Girl , by Edna O’Brien, Faber, RRP£20 The Irish author of The Country Girls looks back on a spectacular life, from her childhood in Tuamgraney, County Clare; her turbulent marriage to Ernest Gébler...
...Saints and Sinners, by Edna O’Brien, Faber, RRP£12.99, 250 pages More than 50 years after O’Brien’s debut novel, The Country Girls, her latest short story collection proves her powers of observation and...
...In spite of a title, and much dialogue, likely to send Aunt Edna into convulsions, Good Dick is the week’s best film....
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