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Mary is 63% done

Finn McCool’s barney with a Scottish giant… he built a causeway thro’ the sea so he could schedule a fight. This didn’t work for obvious reasons: the sea was deep and Finn ran out of weirdly shaped rocks. In frustration, he reached into the middle of Ulster and scooped up a big lump of muck. He flung this clod at the Scottish giant.

— Apr 20, 2026 10:56PM

Few and Far Between: The stunning new novel from the winner of the EU Prize for Literature

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Mary is 87% done

“The internet women are forever having epiphanies: nine times out of ten it’s about making courgette spaghetti or tucking your shirt into your knickers so it’s still hanging out at the back. They make videos about it!”
Love how magical realism debunks fake ‘on-line’ magic here 🤣

— Apr 24, 2026 01:43AM

Mary is 64% done

“He missed,” says Sandra, thankfully.
“But the scooped-out bit became Lough Neagh,” says Marion, “and the part he flung at the other giant landed in the sea. Nowadays we call it the Isle of Man.” Marion ta-das with her hands.
“Finn McCool was shite at aiming,” says Alex.

— Apr 20, 2026 10:56PM

Mary is 34% done

— Apr 12, 2026 02:01AM

Mary is 27% done

I'm really enjoying the writer’s lilting accent and just how rich the Antrim dialect is.

— Apr 11, 2026 12:25AM

Mary is 6% done

Robert-John would have a conniption if he knew there was a mobile on Small

— Apr 09, 2026 12:20AM