Mammoth Format:Paperback

Mammoth Format:PaperbackA GUARDIAN BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR 2024 AN OBSERVER BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR 2024 A NEW STATESMAN BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR 2024 Mammoths protagonist is a disenchanted young lesbian. Shes inexperienced, irritated by life, eager to gestate, and determined to strip everything else down to essentials. She seduces men at random, swaps her urban habitat for an isolated farmhouse, befriends a shepherd, nurses lambs, battles stray cats, waits tables, cleans house, and

get-rich-quick schemes

Stewart Conn on Derek Mahon

nurturing dreams of becoming a poet

nothing symbolised Cyprus entering the modern world like the Ledra Palace Hotel

Expelled in 1938 from the Communist Party

and calls for a judicial inquiry to investigate the culture which has resulted in so many dubious and plainly wrongful convictions

Can poetry be a form of cultural revenge

the author’s alter ego

has fallen in love with an Englishman

and a bizarre chess set which is leading him

and parents' love

Coyne and Gaffa