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Amongst Women

Amongst Women by John McGahern (recommended by Cillian Murphy)

Amongst Women by John McGahern

February 12, 2026 by ashvader 2 Comments

A couple of months ago, I came across a Youtube short from Booktuber, Jack Edwards, asking Cillian Murphy and Max Porter for their book recommendations (the short has since gone viral!). That short was packed with some great suggestions (like Claire Keegan) and I’ve really come to enjoy Edwards’ coverage of famous people’s reading habits (a niche I didn’t know I needed)! Murphy recommended John McGahern and featured on the short was Amongst Women. I’d been looking for a short-ish read to start 2026 off […]

Filed Under: Featured, Fiction Tagged With: John McGahern

ashvader's CBR18 Review No:1 · Genres: Featured, Fiction · Tags: John McGahern ·
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“Life is a peculiar venture”

Amongst Women by John McGahern

July 20, 2022 by tiny_bookbot 3 Comments

(Novel reviewed for the “Shadow” square of CBR Bingo.) “What did we get for it? A country, if you’d believe them. Some of our johnnies in the top jobs instead of a few Englishmen. More than half of my own family working in England. What was it all for? The whole thing was a cod.” I’ve studied (and taught) a good bit of Irish poetry and drama, but I’ve come to feel that Irish fiction represented a nagging gap in my knowledge. So I decided that […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr14bingo, irish fiction, John McGahern

tiny_bookbot's CBR14 Review No:15 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr14bingo, irish fiction, John McGahern ·
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