Author: Richard V. Hirst

Richard V. Hirst

Richard V. Hirst is from Manchester. His writing has been featured in the Guardian, the Big Issue and Time Out, among others. His latest book is The Night Visitors, co-written with Jenn Ashworth.

Book Review: <i>We Are The End</i>, by Gonzalo C. Garcia

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Book Review: We Are The End, by Gonzalo C. Garcia

What Garcia offers is an unwaveringly bleak satire on Generation Y, capturing the slow souring of that age as its unstoppable idealism comes up against the unbudgeable drudgery that is ...

by Richard V. Hirst • 24th September 201824th September 2018

Book Review: <i>Tell Me How This Ends Well</i>, by David Samuel Levinson

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Book Review: Tell Me How This Ends Well, by David Samuel Levinson

The year is 2022. Israel is no more. Having been annexed by its hostile neighbouring countries, its citizens are now global refugees, many of them relocating to the States….. ...

by Richard V. Hirst • 5th July 20176th July 2017

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Today is a year to the day since I started to make my wife sick. I celebrate quietly in the kitchen: a small bowl of cold apple crumble with cream. ...

by Richard V. Hirst • 12th January 201612th January 2016

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