Alice Winn's 'In Memoriam'
Alice Winn’s début novel In Memoriam is a fast-paced revisiting of the First World War in fiction, this time concentrating on a highly-charged erotic relationship between two schoolfriends, Ellwood and Gaunt.
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Scholastique Mukasonga’s début novel, now re-released by Daunt Books, is a startling and surprising approach to the Rwandan genocide of 1994.
Read MoreWilliam Trevor at school
This is the text of a talk I gave on Thursday 23rd March 2017 as part of an event to mark the life and works of William Trevor. In the second part of the event, the author Joseph O’Connor read Trevor’s great story ‘Another Christmas’ and answered questions from the audience about Trevor’s work.
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