Irish fiction – Scuffed Granny

The Echo Chamber by John Boyne

Truly a tale for our social media dominated times, this book is full of satire and humour with a strong end message

An intense book told from the perspective of Frances, about her affair with a married man, but is, ostensibly, more about her

Taking the emotive subject of abuse perpetrated by priests in Ireland, Boyne’s book is exceptional in its storytelling and its discussion

The story of Elizabeth Keane, told through two narrative strands, interwoven cleverly and smoothly by Norton, to reveal long hidden secrets

James Joyce has never really appealed to me, I am sorry to say, so what did I make of Dubliners?

The Ruin, the first book featuring Dervla McTiernan’s garda Cormac Reilly, is a competently written thriller showing the depths of human depravity.