A panoramic portrait of Egyptian lifeSHORT STORIES: Friendly Fire By Alaa Al Aswany Translated by Humphrey Davies Fourth Estate, 219pp. £10Sat Jul 11 2009 - 01:00
Book full of rightnessesSHORT STORIES : It’s Beginning to Hurt By James Lasdun Jonathan Cape, 258pp. £16.99Sat May 09 2009 - 01:00
Dark, entertaining thriller that investigates post-boom Dublin underworldBOOK OF THE DAY: KEVIN POWER reviews Dark Times in the City by Gene Kerrigan Harvill Secker 305pp, £11.99Wed Apr 08 2009 - 01:00
Keeping his mirror uncrackedFICTION: Mr S and the Secrets of Andorra's Box By Ross O'Carroll-Kelly (as told to Paul Howard) Penguin Ireland, 340ppSat Nov 08 2008 - 00:00
