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Awaiting Orders reviewed in Image

August 17th, 2007

The latest issue of Image Journal has a lovely review of Farrell O’Gorman’s Awaiting Orders.
Here’s a snippet:
O’Gorman’s novel is a pleasure, a refreshing combination of frank creatureliness and ethical searching. He delves into our worst impulses without ignoring our noble ones.
For the rest of the review, click here.
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Awaiting Orders the April pick…

April 25th, 2007

…over at Catholicmom.com book club. Thanks and more thanks to Lisa Hendey, who was an early supporter of The Mystery of Things and Idylls Press, for picking Farrell O’Gorman’s Awaiting Orders as the April selection in her Catholic Mom book club, and for helping to promote our little novena for a new Catholic literary revival. [...]

Second Spring journal reviews The Mystery of Things

March 31st, 2007

Stratford Caldecott has written a brief but alarmingly gratifying review of The Mystery of Things in the most recent issue (number eight) of Second Spring: A Journal of Faith and Culture:

“Labelled ‘Book One of the Ashland Grail Cycle’, this is a stunning debut novel in the modern thriller genre, complete with sex and violence. It [...]

America magazine reviews Awaiting Orders

March 14th, 2007

We’re very proud here at Idylls Press to share the news that Farrell O’Gorman’s fine novel, Awaiting Orders, has just received a wonderful review by George Lensing in the weekly Catholic magazine America:
Click here to read the review.
Click here for more about Awaiting Orders, or to order a copy.
Congratulations, Farrell!
And if you happen [...]

Praise from The Midwest Book Review

February 10th, 2007

for an Idylls Press Catholic Fiction Classic. February 2007:
"Originally published in 1989, The Cardinal’s Snuff-Box is the first of Henry Harland’s ‘Catholic’ novels after his conversion to the Roman Catholic Church in 1897. Set in Italy, this is the story of English novelist Peter Marchdale, who takes up residence in a small villa amidst the [...]

 

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