An aesthete in the trenches
{ "b" : "Siegfried Sassoon: A Biography," , "cite" : "by Max Egremont, Picador, £36.50."}
{ "b" : "Siegfried Sassoon: A Biography," , "cite" : "by Max Egremont, Picador, £36.50."}
Shakespeare: The Biography, by Peter Ackroyd, Chatto & Windus, €32.
{ "b" : "Childhood Interrupted Growing up under the cruel regime of the Sisters of Mercy," , "i" : "by Kathleen O'Malley Virgo, €16.05"}
Booking Passage: We Irish And Americans, by Thomas Lynch, Jonathan Cape, €17.
{ "b" : "Motherhood Silenced: The Experience Of Natural Mothers On Adoption Reunion," , "cite" : "by Ruth JA Kelly, Liffey Press NPG, €18.95."}
Motherhood Silenced: The Experience Of Natural Mothers On Adoption Reunion, by Ruth JA Kelly, Liffey Press NPG, €18.95.
The Cambridge Companion To Modern Irish Culture, edited by Joe Cleary and Claire Connolly, Cambridge University Press, NPG, €24.80.
{ "b" : "The Cambridge Companion To Modern Irish Culture," , "cite" : "edited by Joe Cleary and Claire Connolly, Cambridge University Press, NPG, €24.80."}
Wide-eyed in Medialand: A broadcaster’s journey, by Denis Tuohy, Blackstaff, €14.40.
{ "b" : "Wide-eyed in Medialand: A broadcaster’s journey," , "cite" : "by Denis Tuohy, Blackstaff, €14.40."}
England’s lost Eden: Adventures in a Victorian Utopia, by Philip Hoare, Fourth Estate, €36.
{ "b" : "England’s lost Eden: Adventures in a Victorian Utopia," , "cite" : "by Philip Hoare, Fourth Estate, €36."}
The Pope’s Daughter, by Caroline P Murphy, Faber & Faber, €17.
Valentine: A Love Story, by Chet Raymo, Brandon, €16.
Certain people, fascinating in their own right, are unfairly remembered only as footnotes in the lives of more illustrious contemporaries.