“In my experience, Christmas is the last bastion of uninterrupted reading time. The days between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day remain miraculously insulated from outside intrusions.
I use this time to greedily go back to comfort reads – Maeve Brennan’s, Alice McDermott, the thrice-Pulitzer-nominated writer and winner of the National Book Award, explores the lives of American military wives living in Saigon in 1963. Told from the perspective of Tricia, now elderly and looking back on her life, it is beautifully written and a reflection on the misogyny of the era. is a debut collection of short stories by young American writer Kate Doyle.
I love to read a really meaty non-fiction book at Christmastime and three Irish books should be top of your non-fiction list this year. Justine McCarthy is one of Ireland’s best-known and respected journalists, and has reported for four decades on everything from sex abuse scandals to the Troubles.
One suspects that Mantel would have enjoyed the Wagatha Christie trial and the star of that show, Coleen Rooney, will publish her autobiography,, this month, detailing not only her side of the legal saga with Rebekah Vardy but also her life to date, including her marriage to footballer Wayne Rooney and her life as a mother to their four sons.
Sometimes a book can act as analgesic and I tend to read Jilly Cooper in that way because I first started reading her books when I was sick in bed as a young woman and ever since have associated her novels with comfort. Now in her 80s, Cooper is still writing novels and this month she returns to her beloved/despised protagonist Rupert Campbell-Black, the showjumping cad who first appeared in Riders.
Scottish crime queen Val McDermid is one of the most revered crime writers at work today and each new novel from the former news journalist brings with it both a gripping plot as well as astute social commentary. sees cold case detective Karen Pirie discover an author’s manuscript that appears to have many similarities to a real-life case she is working on, the unsolved case of a university student who disappeared from her home. The novel manuscript might just solve the mystery.
Irish author Emily Hourican has been delighting readers with her Guinness Girls series and now she turns her attention to another glamorous and adored family – the Kennedys. dramatises a weeklong trip to Kelvedon Hall, the home of Chips Cannon and Lady Honor Guinness. Kick Kennedy is hoping her love for William Cavendish will not be discovered and forbidden by her staunchly Catholic family, while Lady Brigid Guinness has no intentions of marrying anyone at all.
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