The Edinburgh International Book Festival kicks off on Saturday! From 12 – 28 August, we’re welcoming some of the biggest and brightest authors, thinkers, and
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BOOKS: The hounding of Oscar Wilde
A previous writer on this affair, H Montgomery Hyde, although veering to the liberal side of the question, still maintained that Wilde’s trial was fairly
BOOKS: A personal, intimate history of the Troubles seen through the microcosm of a single rural parish
COMING SOON Dirty Linen The Troubles in My Home Place MARTIN DOYLE Martin Doyle, Books Editor of The Irish Times, offers a personal, intimate history of
Nicola Sturgeon announces ‘deeply personal and revealing’ memoir
The book will chart her journey from a ‘shy child from a working class family’ to ‘Scotland’s first female and longest serving First Minister’ By
BOOKS: Association Football and the Making of Irish Identities
JUST PUBLISHED No Foreign Game Association Football and the Making of Irish Identities JAMES QUINN From its earliest days, association football was seen not just as
BOOKS: Orwell was not just the conscience but the wintry conscience of his generation
Julian Symons Orwellspeak The Politics of Literary Reputation: The Making and Claiming of ‘St George’ Orwell by John Rodden. Oxford, 478 pp., £22.50, October 1989, 0 19