Paraic O'Donnell | Writer. Lives in a very small way.

Reviews

  • The Reacher Guy by Heather Martin

    The Reacher Guy by Heather Martin

    In Heather Martin’s life of Lee Child, a skilled biographer encounters a wily and self-mythologising subject.

  • Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

    Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

    “The beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite”: I reviewed Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi for…

  • NVK by Temple Drake

    NVK by Temple Drake

    I reviewed Temple Drake’s NVK, a slick and hypermodern fable of vampirism and sexual politics.

  • The Dollmaker by Nina Allan

    The Dollmaker by Nina Allan

    Nina Allan’s study of marginalised kindred spirits is an oddball quest narrative with a guileless stalker…

  • A Keeper by Graham Norton

    A Keeper by Graham Norton

    Hell is udder people: I reviewed Graham Norton’s latest novel for The Irish Times.

  • Connect by Julian Gough

    Connect by Julian Gough

    In the final pages of Connect, its central character arrives at a climactic epiphany. ‘Everything,’ Colt…