ESSAYS

POETRY - Sylvia Plath (2016)

THE IDEAL READER (2015)

STAR OF THE SEA by Joseph O'Connor (2015)

There's hope in the book...BROOKLYN by Colm Tóibín (2014)
 
DUE CONSIDERATIONS by John Updike (2014)
 
FROM OUT OF THE CITY by John Kelly (2014)
 
THIS IS THE WAY by Gavin Corbett (2014)
 
SPORTING AESTHETICS (2014)
 
IMPOSSIBLE OBJECT by Nicholas Mosley (2014)
 
WHEN I WAS BUT A BOY (2013)
 
THE FOLDED LEAF by William Maxwell (2013) 
 
I THINK I KNOW WHAT'S WRONG (2013)

BLOG ARCHIVES (pre-May 2013)
 
THE GAMAL by Ciarán Collins (2013)
 
WRITING; LEARNED BUT NEVER TAUGHT (2012)

LONG NOVELS OR SHORT NOVELS? ANY NOVELS AT ALL, FOLKS? (2012)

THE ANGEL ESMERELDA: NINE STORIES by Don DeLillo (2012)

THE WORLD'S GREATEST FOOTBALLER? (2011)

THANK DICKENS! (2011)

THE IMPORTANCE OF LOVING FOOTBALL (2011)
 
CHICK-LIT: ENVY AND DISMAY (2010)

BLOOD ON THE TRACKS - AN ALBUM OUT OF NOWHERE! (2010)
 
TALKING ABOUT MYSELF; OBFUSCATION, EGO AND APPRENTICESHIP (2009)