Flowers That Blushed Unseen

Apart from the big hitters Timothy Mo’s Pure and Sebastian Faulk’s A possible Life which I reviewed (see my book reviews post), there were other books I enjoyed this year which largely escaped the main media. These included poets, Declan Collinge’s The Lonely Hush of Eve, Ann Egan’s Telling Time, Neill Donnelly’s Tullamore Train, Celia de Freine’s Aibitir Aoise and novelists Adele Ward’s Everything is Free and David Butlers The Judas Kiss. Quality work was also produced by the often unorchestrated small presses, Doghouse, Wordsonthestreet and Indigo Dreams.