A solicitous neighbour; and peculiar goings-on at a party [fiction]

A chronicle of clerical abuse, cover-up and state inaction [review-essay]

A seaside town and its most notorious daughter [review-essay]

In post-tsunami Sri Lanka, is the civil war heating up? [travel]

John McGahern’s story, re-told as fact [review-essay]

Three German girls, a ‘Celtic’ boy, and lots of roasted vegetables [fiction]

A debt-ridden widow turns to a can’t-miss business: chips [fiction]