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March 31, 2020

Grown Ups by Marian Keyes

Reviewed by Laura Marriott We start at a dinner party. If you groan inwardly at the very thought of a family dinner party then…

October 15, 2019

Inheritance by Jenny Eclair

Review by Laura Marriott “Beginnings, middles and ends; Peggy, Serena, Natasha and Bel. This is the room that binds them, this is how consequences…

Belfast Stories Doire press
August 27, 2019

Belfast Stories, edited by Paul McVeigh & Laura Frank

Review by Laura Marriott In Donegall Square, in the centre of Belfast, Lisa is working in the Welcome Centre. Tourists flock in searching for…

Bring Various new irish short stories
June 6, 2019

Being Various: New Irish Short Stories, ed. Lucy Caldwell

Review by Laura Marriott Ireland is going through a golden age of writing: that has never been more apparent. I wanted to capture something…

The Brazilian by Rosie Millard
September 14, 2017

The Brazilian by Rosie Millard

Reviewed by Laura Marriott The Brazilian opens in a London beauty salon where the middle class and nearly middle aged (although she would be furious…

Listening in jenny eclair
August 8, 2017

Listening In by Jenny Eclair

Review by Laura Marriott Listening In is a collection of 24 short stories from comedian and writer Jenny Eclair. Her last literary outing was the…

Holding grahama norton
July 27, 2017

Holding by Graham Norton

Paperback review by Laura Marriott The first thing one does after finishing Holding is breathe a sigh of relief. When a well-known personality branches into fiction…

Tony Robinson no cunning plan
June 15, 2017

No Cunning Plan: My Story by Tony Robinson

Review by Laura Marriott Like many people I first came to know Tony Robinson through his role as Baldrick on Blackadder, before following him…

The Temptation of Elizabeth Tudor by Elizabeth Norton
December 8, 2016

The Temptation of Elizabeth Tudor by Elizabeth Norton

 Reviewed by Laura Marriott The Temptation of Elizabeth Tudor concerns itself with the potential marriage between the teenage Elizabeth Tudor and Thomas Seymour. The book…

June 14, 2016

Tremarnock: The Love, Lives and Secrets of a Cornish Village by Emma Burstall

Reviewed by Laura Marriott Tremarnock is a picture perfect Cornish fishing village, largely untouched by gentrification, poverty or seasonal tourism. It is here that…

June 9, 2016

Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny by Holly Madison

Reviewed by Laura Marriott “I always thought it would be classy to not kiss and tell … but after a while you just get…

April 6, 2016

Citizens by Kevin Curran

Reviewed by Laura Marriott As Ireland commemorates the events surrounding the 1916 Easter Rising this timely novel teases out what this event means to…

January 19, 2016

Dublin Seven by Frankie Gaffney

Reviewed by Laura Marriott On a small crossroads near the bottom of Manor Street, one of the main through ways in Dublin 7, there…

December 3, 2015

After You by Jojo Moyes

Reviewed by Laura Marriott “Don’t think of me too often … Just live well. Just live. Love, Will” After You is the sequel to the much…

October 30, 2015

Us by David Nicholls

Paperback review by Laura Marriott Us is David Nicholls’ fourth novel and the follow up to 2009’s surprise hit One Day. Nicholls is an award winning…

Moving jenny eclair
October 15, 2015

Moving by Jenny Eclair

Reviewed by Laura Marriott Moving is the latest literary offering from Jenny Eclair. It is the fourth novel from the comedian, who has published three…

January 28, 2015

Miss Carter’s War by Sheila Hancock

Paperback review by Laura Marriott Miss Carter’s War opens in 1948, in smoky post war Britain, introducing us to the woman who is going to…

January 16, 2015

The Woman Who Stole My Life by Marian Keyes

Reviewed by Laura Marriott Meet Stella Sweeney, a Dublin wife, mother and beautician in her early forties. Stella’s chaotic but seemingly content life is…

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