A Good Country by Laleh Khadivi
The National, May 2017 In the aftermath of ISIL-inspired attacks, there are stories we hear far too often. Of young people growing up in the West becoming increasingly alienated, only finding a sense of their […]
BOOKS
Andrew Wilson on his Agatha Christie novel
The National, May 2017 It remains Agatha Christie’s biggest unsolved mystery. The year was 1926, and the “Queen of Crime” had just published one of her finest detective novels, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. With […]
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
The National, May 2017 Sometimes, a novel introduces a character so believable, so moving and so original that there is a feeling of real loss when you turn the final page. I reread the ending […]
Laline Paull explains Bees follow-up The Ice
The National, May 2017 “I have been there and, believe me, I have been afraid.” This was how the first African-American Arctic explorer, Matthew Henson, described his expeditions to the North Pole in 1912. It […]
House Of Names by Colm Tóibín
The National, May 2017 As opening lines go, “I have been acquainted with the smell of death”, is about as intriguing as it gets. But then, in his latest novel, Irish author Colm Tóibín is […]