Eccentricity
Visionary tales: Mrs Calder and the Hyena, by Marjorie Ann Watts, reviewed
Sharply drawn characters, young and old, gleefully challenge conventional judgments and form liberating new friendships in this exhilarating collection of short stories
Another pink gin please
At the height of the IRA’s terrorist campaign on mainland Britain in December 1974, a bomb was lobbed through the…
The wildest Wilde of all: the scandalous life of Oscar’s father
‘To have a father is always big news,’ according to the narrator of Sebastian Barry’s early novel, The Engine of…
The feast before the famine
If you had the resources, Georgian Ireland must have been a very agreeable place in which to live. It was…
Fringe benefits
In praise of eccentric election candidates
The fairy census
An eccentric English tradition has attracted fresh academic attention
