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David Tierney is a writer from Galway. He graduated from NUI Galway with a BA in English and an MA in Writing. He is a bit of a sci-fi nut but likes to read, watch, or play anything thought-provoking. He is currently writing his first novel and has had poetry published in Silver Streams Journal and The Galway Review. He tweets haphazardly @writedavidwrite.

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Preparing for the end of the world: A Review of Mark O’Connell’s Notes from an…

David Tierney May 30, 2020 0

COVID-19 has given us more of a taste of an apocalypse than we have ever had, emptying our streets, shops, and pushing family and friends away from one another and into their own bubbles. Mark O’Connell’s award-winning book, To Be a…

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The Jagged Fragmentation of Abuse: A Review of Kate Elizabeth Russell’s My Dark Vanessa

David Tierney May 20, 2020 0

Vanessa Wye was fifteen when she first had sex with her English teacher, Jacob Strane. At thirty-two, some of Strane’s students come forward to accuse him of abuse, something that horrifies Vanessa. She doesn’t remember him abusing her.…

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What’s Wrong with Eating People? Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

David Tierney Apr 29, 2020 0

I once bought a book with the title, What’s Wrong with Eating People? It didn’t offer any notable enlightenment on its titular question, and was surprisingly dull, but it did plant the query stubbornly in my brain. It’s not that I’d…

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The Colours of the Brontës’ Worlds: A Review of Isabel Greenberg’s Glass Town

David Tierney Apr 5, 2020 0

We drift between series, movies, video games, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and 24/7 news. Colourful content fills our lives to the point that boredom is almost impossible. But, this was not the case on the moors of 19th…

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Book Review | The Legend Of Sally Jones By Jakob Wegelius

David Tierney Nov 28, 2018 0

One hundred years ago, on a stormy starless night in the African rainforest, a gorilla is born. The elders prophesise that the ape’s life will be filled with many misfortunes. Normally, I’d be sceptical about prophecies, but these gorilla…

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Graphic Novel Review | Sabrina by Nick Drnaso

David Tierney Jul 19, 2018 1

In the first ten panels of Sabrina, we see a woman carefully and silently searching a house until she happily pulls a large grey cat out from beneath a bed. Later, we have two men standing on opposite sides of a door, one with a takeaway…

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Book Review | Padraig Kenny’s Tin

David Tierney Feb 16, 2018 0

Padraig Kenny’s children’s novel, Tin, opens with an engineer, Mr Absalom, crunching through snow with a human boy, Christopher, and a robot child for sale, Jack. Absalom swaps Jack’s red hair for brown, ‘because nobody buys gingers, awful…