Image: An author hibernating with a good book (Source: chatgpt4) As you might guess from the image above, I am about to go into...

The relentless hounding is so draining. Every night, as soon as I walk in the door, they pounce. 'Dad. Can we have a pet? We'll look...

Image: The author with Marjorie Fitzgibbon's sculpture of James Joyce in Dublin (source: Pete Mitchell ) As a confessed bibliophile, few...