Norton loses ground in the rush to follow up on initial success

Graham Norton has the capacity to be a major name in fiction, but not with this book Pic: Andres Poveda

Fiction: A Keeper, By Graham Norton, Hodder & Stoughton, €17.25

What a strangely retro novelist Graham Norton has turned out to be. The Irish entertainer may have made his fortune through his funny and salacious late-night chat show for the BBC, but it appears that all along, there was another Norton buried inside the body of the celebrity interviewer: the former Bandon Grammar pupil who observed life through a country lens, and kept ...