The Irish Examiner has published their list of the Best Books of 2013 today which includes The Infatuations by Hamish
Hamilton, Madd Addam by Margaret Atwood, Flamethrowers by Rachel
Kushner, Town and Country edited by Kevin Barry, Downturn Abbey by
Ross O Carroll Kelly, The Guts by Roddy Doyle, The Spinning Heart by
Donal Ryan, Intimacy with Strangers by Ciaran Carty, and...(aren't I pleased) my own novel The Herbalist!
