The Dead by James Joyce

The Dead by James JoyceDublin, 6 January: the Feast of the Epiphany, also known in Ireland as Womens Christmas or Nollaig na mBan. Gretta and Gabriel Conroy attend the annual dinner party hosted by his aunts, the Morkan Sisters. As the house on Ushers Island fills with laughter, music and dancing, the worries and secrets of the guests interweave and overlap. The festive evening culminates in a shocking confession by Gretta and a life changing epiphany for Gabriel. The

but can we see ourselves

Sisonke Msimang

starring the young tiger Jeppo and his friends

But his life is thrown into turmoil when he chances on a photograph of the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna

and a love letter to the children who survive the most unfathomable dangers and never stop dreaming

The writer's weird vision mixes brilliantly with the trappings of earlier Gothic horror to form innovative mosaics of frightful fiction that will long haunt the reader's subconscious

religion and literature

'[She changed] the way we saw each other

contradictions

But when their beautiful young cousin Sophie arrives

The Wren'A wonder

And while Gwendolen loses everything and becomes trapped in an oppressive marriage