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The Magician by Colm Tóibín

Colm Tóibín’s recent novel, The Magician, is an impressive fictionalised life of the great German novelist Thomas Mann, well known to Germanists as the writer of Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain, Death in Venice, to name but a few. In the … Continue reading

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Nora Webster by Colm Toibin

Colm Toíbín’s latest novel, ‘Nora Webster’, is a gentle and understated novel about a woman in early middle age coming  to terms with the unexpected death of her husband. The novel starts some weeks after the death of Maurice, when … Continue reading

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