I’m hoping you have read Caoilinn Hughes. In the last six years, Orchid and the Wasp and The Wild Laughter established her as one of Ireland’s smartest, finest new novelists. The Alternatives is one ...

Although her surviving nephews and nieces all confirm that Virginia Woolf was lots of fun, she played a mean trick on the lads. Instead of the expected squib (‘as funny, as subversive and as frivolous ...