Literary Radar
Articles, book reviews, literary critiques and journalistic reports around books on local and international media.
Passiontide by Monique Roffey review – a passionate protest novel | THE GUARDIAN | 16/06/2024
Set on a Caribbean island, the follow-up to The Mermaid of Black Conch highlights the scale of violence against women.
Growing Up With Joan Didion and Dominick Dunne, in the Land of Make-Believe | THE NEW YORK TIMES | 08/06/2024
Endgame 1944: How Stalin Won the War by Jonathan Dimbleby review – the Red army’s advance into history | THE GUARDIAN | 27/05/2024
A fresh take on Operation Bagration, the colossal eastern front offensive in the second world war, is the author and broadcaster’s best book yet – and shows how next to the Soviets, the Germans’ worst enemy was Hitler
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Books for a better world: as chosen by Lenny Henry, Geri Halliwell-Horner, Andrew O’Hagan and others | THE GUARDIAN |18/05/2024
Game-changing books that offer hope, as recommended by speakers at this year’s Hay festival, including Theresa May, Tom Holland, Helen Garner and Jon Ronson
€100,000 Dublin literary award won by Romanian author Mircea Cărtărescu | THE GUARDIAN THE GUARDIAN THE GUARDIAN | 24/05/2024
Cărtărescu’s novel Solenoid, translated by Sean Cotter, was described by judges as ‘wildly inventive with passages of great beauty’
The Quality of Love by Ariane Bankes review – delicious portrait of the Paget twins | THE GUARDIAN | 7/05/2024
This evocative account of the author’s mother and aunt – identical sisters who stole the hearts of London’s 1930s intelligentsia – captures their closeness and lust for life