Book review

Intermezzo review

LIVING

Intermezzo review: Rooney’s best work yet, or more of the same?

An interrogation of the human condition brought to life with ambitious literary devices and fresh stylistic choices, Intermezzo…

By Sarah Gill

escapist novels

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Armchair voyager: 8 travel books perfect for a little escapism right now

Friendly reminder that lockdown restrictions don't apply to your imagination... Yesterday we went to Disneyland, South Africa and…

By Amanda Cassidy

Author Ruth Gilligan at her desk
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Author Ruth Gilligan: ‘I have slowly colonised our flat’s small second bedroom into my writing space’

Sophie Grenham sits down with writer Ruth Gilligan to hear about her illustrious career to date, and the…

By Sophie Grenham

The Testaments

EDITORIAL

IMAGE review: The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

Over three decades after The Handmaid's Tale simultaneously beguiled and disturbed readers, Margaret Atwood returns to Gilead with The…

By Jennifer McShane

EDITORIAL

Irish female writers are having a moment. Vogue declared it, therefore it must be so

An article earlier this month by Tara McEvoy, titled How a New Wave of Irish Writes are Making their…

By Lia Hynes

EDITORIAL

Edna O’Brien’s The Country Girls trilogy has been chosen for Dublin One City One Book 2019

In November 2015, as Edna O’Brien’s first novel in ten years prepared for release, Aingeala Flannery looked at…

By IMAGE

EDITORIAL

Book review: Sally Rooney’s beautiful coming-of-age love story

Sally Rooney's much anticipated second novel Normal People published this week is a beautiful coming-of-age love story which…

By Lia Hynes

EDITORIAL

Book review: Is ‘Killing It’ the next ‘Eat, Pray, Love’?

Camas Davis's new book is already being compared to Elizabeth Gilbert's Eay Pray Love. Also a story of…

By Lia Hynes

EDITORIAL

Book review: Notes to Self is as personal as it is possible for writing to be

When Emilie Pine told her mother she wanted to write a book of personal essays, she asked what…

By Lia Hynes

EDITORIAL

Caitlin Moran’s How to be Famous: A fist-pumping celebration of being female

Caitlin Moran’s new book, How to be Famous, is published today, and it is a veritable manifesto on…

By Lia Hynes

Books

EDITORIAL

Three IMAGE writers share the books that changed their lives

Have you ever read a book that had a profound impact on your life? Here, three IMAGE writers…

By Grace McGettigan

EDITORIAL

The Cost of Living review: divorce-lit for women who are fifty, alone and free

‘The writing you are reading now is made from the cost of living’, says Deborah Levy in the…

By Lia Hynes