James P Reynolds

The Empty Family Colm Toibin Penguin, London, 2011 The Empty Family, Toibin’s latest collection of short stories, recently won the Lambda Literary Award for best gay fiction. It was an Amazon Book of the Month and was shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short story Award. It garnered starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, [...]

The Master Colm Toibin Picador, U.K. 2004 Colm Toibin, one of Ireland’s greatest writers, one of the greatest gay writers anywhere, won many awards for this brilliant novel about five prolific years in the life of writer Henry James, including the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Lambda Literary Award, The Los Angeles Times Book [...]

Brooklyn Colm Toibin Picador, London, 2009 Brooklyn is Toibin’s sixth novel. It was long-listed for the Booker Prize and won the 2009 Costa Award. It was the Amazon Book of the Month for May, 2009. In Booklist’s starred review, they called Brooklyn, “A compelling characterization of a woman caught between two worlds… A fine and [...]

The Blackwater Lightship Colm Toibin Picador, London, 1999 The Blackwater Lightship is a story of three generations of Irish woman. A gay man suffering from AIDS asks his sister to break the news to their mother and grandmother. The challenge for the sister is that, because of long-term conflicts, she hasn’t spoken to either her [...]