Ten years ago Colum McCann edited an anthology, How to Be a Man, in which each contributor explored that phrase in a short story. It might have served as an alternate title to Elaine Feeney’s second ...

What it's about: Neurodivergent thirteen-year-old Jamie O'Neill wants to build a perpetual motion machine so that he can reconnect with his mother who died giving birth to him. His mission ends up ...

‘My life is the plot of a bad book and therefore I have no interest in reading fiction,” says Jamie O’Neill, the indelible 13-year-old at the heart of Elaine Feeney’s second novel. It’s a ...