Vale Irish writer and playwright Jennifer Johnston who died earlier this week, aged 95. Long-time followers of this blog will know that I describe her as "my favourite living writer" and I'm not sure there's anyone else who can now step into those shoes. I only discovered she had died when I got a sudden…

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05.03.2025

2025 Stella Prize longlist – Reading Matters

Fiction dominates the 2025 Stella Prize lonlgist which has just been announced at the Adelaide Festival. This prize for Australian women and non-binary writers is worth $60,000 to the winner

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08.03.2025

‘Naming the Stars’ by Jennifer Johnston – Reading Matters

Fiction - Kindle edition; Tinder Press; 91 pages; 2015. The sad news that Irish writer Jennifer Johnston died last week prompted me to extract this novella from my digital TBR, where it's been sitting for almost a decade. Naming the Stars, published in 2015, was her final book. It’s quintessential Jennifer Johnston fare, focused on…

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10.03.2025

‘Vengeance’ by John Banville (writing as Benjamin Black) – Reading Matters

Vengeance is the fifth instalment in John Banville’s Quirke Mysteries — which he pens under the name Benjamin Black.

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Vale Jennifer Johnston – Reading Matters

2025 Stella Prize longlist – Reading Matters

‘Naming the Stars’ by Jennifer Johnston – Reading Matters

‘Vengeance’ by John Banville (writing as Benjamin Black) – Reading Matters

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