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Only This Room - By Kerry Hardie (Gallery)

Last update: Wednesday, June 1, 2011, 11:46 | © Metro Éireann

Being an immigrant in Ireland, I’m doing my best to catch up with the literature and poetry of my adopted home country. However, what stops me from immersing myself wholly is the fact that there’s so much to read from all over the world, so much to keep up with!

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An Empty Room - By Mu Xin (New Directions)

Last update: Wednesday, June 1, 2011, 11:46 | © Metro Éireann

An Empty Room is a collection of 13 short stories that take the human conditions at their heart and are narrated with flair and subtlety. Though each story stands on its own, one can perceive the flow that connects them all.

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Hate: A Romance By Tristan Garcia (Faber and Faber)

Last update: Sunday, May 1, 2011, 13:38 | © Metro Éireann

In 2008, 30-year-old writer Tristan Garcia managed to charm the journalists judging for the French Prix de Flore with Hate: A Romance, his first novel, ensuring his award of that sought-after prize – famously won 12 years previously by Michel Houellebecq.

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A Farewell to Arms - By Ernest Hemingway (Random House)

Last update: Sunday, May 1, 2011, 13:37 | © Metro Éireann

One of Hemingway’s middling novels, both chronologically and in terms of quality, A Farewell to Arms tells the story of First World War ambulance driver Frederick Henry and his relationship with British nurse Catherine Barkley – told, of course, in Hemingway’s signature flat, unadorned prose.

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The Other Hand - By Chris Cleave (Scepter)

Last update: Friday, April 15, 2011, 21:12 | © Metro Éireann

The Other Hand begins with Little Bee, a 14-year-old Nigerian from an oil-producing village in the Delta Region who witnesses the burning of her village and the killing of her parents during some undefined conflict.

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Towers of Midnight -By Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson (Orbit)

Last update: Friday, April 15, 2011, 21:12 | © Metro Éireann

It’s a testament to the late Robert Jordan’s abilities, considering the relative disappointment of the previous installment, that I snapped up this – the 13th book in the Wheel of Time series – at the first opportunity.

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Sleepwalker

Last update: Friday, April 1, 2011, 22:39 | © Metro Éireann

By John Toomey (Dalkey Archive)

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The Life of an Unknown Man

Last update: Friday, April 1, 2011, 22:38 | © Metro Éireann

By Andrei Makine (Sceptre)

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Just Kids

Last update: Tuesday, March 1, 2011, 22:03 | © Metro Éireann

By Patti Smith (Bloomsbury)

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Empty Promises

Last update: Tuesday, March 1, 2011, 22:02 | © Metro Éireann

By Niall Crowley (A&A Farmar)

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