Burning Heresies : A Memoir of a Life in Conflict 1979-2020 by Kevin Myers

Burning Heresies : A Memoir of a Life in Conflict 1979-2020 by Kevin MyersIn this remarkable sequel to his critically acclaimed memoir Watching the Door, Irish journalist Kevin Myers reflects on his roller coaster career over three decades in the Irish media, from the European conflicts he reported from to the personal conflicts he fought. Fresh from the horrors of 1970s Belfast, Myers took a job in 1979 with The Irish Times, and brilliantly evokes the comical chaos of life in the smoky newsroom of Irelands paper of record.

the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like

A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself

But then she meets the glamorous Shug Avery

rip-roaring sequel to Dickens' much-loved classic

describing with bitter intensity the bright hopes and cynical betrayals of that chaotic episode: the revolutionary euphoria of Barcelona

'An engaging and incisive book that asks what keeping the faith cost us

women and alcohol

Briseis was a queen until her city was destroyed

an antidote to a frightening political time

but when local teenager Ann-Marie goes missing it's no longer clear who she can trust

A divorced suburban dad helps his daughter pick out a card for her friend who's moving away

Bound by birth