Best for: Anyone who appreciates excellent investigative reporting, people who are intrigued by true crime, anyone who is interested in the Troubles. In a nutshell: Investigative journalist Keefe uses the disappearance of widow and mother of 10 Jean McConville in the early 70s to explore the Troubles, focusing primarily on the Republican fight. Worth quoting: N/A (Audio book) Why I chose it: I find the Troubles to be an absolutely fascinating part of history. And they are being discussed a bit more often now, as […]

“Claude Lévi-Strauss once observed that, ‘for the majority of the human species, and for tens of thousands of years, the idea that humanity includes every human being on the face of the earth does not exist at all. The designation stops at the border of each tribe, or linguistic.’” I was quite lucky to read Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (2019) as my first book of 2020. My book club chose it as our next book, so I was already […]