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Jan 6, 2025 | 
thebaffler.com | John Yau |Neda Semnani |Declan Ryan
My father loved to leave meno one kidnapped or molested meMichael Ansara, Jeff Chandler, and Ruth Romanliving and dying in a gray worldall glamor gone in their second runMy father hated me and told me soThe growth had become a ballWhen I brought him medicine“You’re too stupid to give me thoseI will wait for your brother to come home”
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Dec 26, 2024 | 
waikatotimes.co.nz | Declan Ryan
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Declan Ryan
The late Sven-Göran Eriksson, pictured last year, published one of 2024’s most affecting memoirs Credit: DeFodi When it came to sporting literature, 2024 seemed to range more widely than ever. We had personal unburdenings, deep-dives into dirty money, and nostalgic dreams of better days. But no book could match the emotional heft of A Beautiful Game (Michael Joseph, £25), the posthumous memoir of Sven-Göran Eriksson. The ex-England manager died of cancer in August, a month after Gareth...
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
sports.yahoo.com | Declan Ryan
When it came to sporting literature, 2024 seemed to range more widely than ever. We had personal unburdenings, deep-dives into dirty money, and nostalgic dreams of better days. But no book could match the emotional heft of A Beautiful Game (Michael Joseph, £25), the posthumous memoir of Sven-Göran Eriksson.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
the-tls.co.uk | Declan Ryan
Welcome to the TLSWinner of the 2024 Niche Market Newspaper of the Year Award and proudly niche since 1902.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Declan Ryan
Charles Boyle’s new novel is set in a land where everyone pretends dogs don’t exist Credit: AFP Charles Boyle has always been a shapeshifter: variously a publisher, novelist (sometimes pseudonymous) and writer of less easily categorisable books. In Invisible Dogs, his latest work of fiction, elusiveness is in the air. Even the foreign city our narrator is visiting “changed genres while I wasn’t looking”. That narrator, a writer, is travelling with Mike, a much more successful one. They’re...
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
msn.com | Declan Ryan |Tristram Fane Saunders |Luke Kennard |Lucy Thynne |John Clegg |Shane McCrae
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Sep 22, 2024 | 
irishtimes.com | Declan Ryan
There’s a pleasingly spiky quality to the poems of Aifric Mac Aodha in Old Friends (Gallery, 64pp, €11.95/€18.50), as translated by David Wheatley; something to do with the veracity of the spoken, seen and subsequently dissected rubbing alongside a fresh, sardonic tone.
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Sep 1, 2024 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Declan Ryan |Sylvia Plath
Puffin Island in St Finian's Bay, Co Kerry Credit: Corbis The Irish poet Eavan Boland, who died in 2020, was the epitome of a figure she described as an “exile in search of a self”.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Declan Ryan |Roddy Doyle
Roddy Doyle, author of The Women Behind the Door Credit: Andrew Crowley Roddy Doyle has chronicled the challenging, humorous and rhapsodic side of working-class life, largely in his native Dublin, since his 1987 debut The Commitments (which later became a film and, in something of a rare event for literary fiction, a stage musical). But it has been almost 20 years since we saw Paula Spencer, the protagonist of The Woman Who Walked into Doors (1996) and its follow-up Paula Spencer (2006)....
