This 1970s campus novel should feel outdated compared with today’s students. An anarchic sociology tutor at a new university on the south coast, Howard Kirk – a Northern grammar-school boy – sleeps ...

Maeve Binchy, one of Ireland's most beloved writers, has died in Dublin after a short illness at the age of 72, Irish media reported on Tuesday. Binchy was revered for such novels as "Light a Penny ...

This past month, I celebrated my birthday by exploring authors also born in May. This endeavor gave me a chance to explore some works I may not have otherwise read, which goes hand in hand with my ...

There is something about Irish novelist Maeve Binchy's storytelling that is habit forming for the reader, but deceptively hard to define. I've read her novels, "Circle of Friends," "Tara Road," ...