The Light of EveningSuch is the wrath of the mothers, such is the cry of the mothers, such is the lamentation of the mothers. Ageing Dilly Macready lies in her hospital bed in Dublin, awaiting a final visit from her estranged daughter, Eleanora, an author who fled rural Ireland years before, after her sensual first novel caused a local scandal. Through memories and journals, both mother and daughter find themselves reliving the strains, disagreements, expectations and

Creation and the giving of orders are closely entwined in Western culture

Jack Malik’s words on the page take on a new life when he performs them

They are an indelible and unfailingly delightful literary achievement

yet students of Antiquity and the Middle Ages mostly ignore it

in which he offered useful advice on all the steps involved in researching and writing a thesis

Do devils exist

but the similarities end there

up to his final work in the 1980s

Polly Barton attempts to exhaust her obsession with the country she moved to at the age of 21

Linda Pastan “has quietly become one of our leading poets

trans identity

Now widely available in English for the first time