Reviews and Interviews

Michael D’Angeli is currently a D.Phil. student in the Department of Theology, University of Oxford. He has previously studied philosophy of religion and biblical studies at the University of St Andrews and University of Cambridge, respectively. His current research centres on the relationship between philosophical and theological thought within the hermeneutics of Paul Ricoeur.

Roddy Doyle is one of the most popular and widelyread Irish writers. The author of ten critically-acclaimed novels (The Commitments, The Snapper, The Van, The Dead Republic among others) and a number of short stories, he has also written books for children, plays for the stage and screenplays for his novels. He won the Booker Prize in 1993, for Paddy Clarke Ha  Ha Ha.

Joanna Kosmalska is a translator, an editor of DeKadentzya literary journal and a research fellow at the Department of British Literature and Culture, University of Łódź. In 2010–2013 she ran a postgraduate training programme for teachers of English (www.anglista.uni.lodz.pl). She is the author of “Polish Emigration Literature in Ireland and Great Britain since 2004” project (www.emigracja.uni.lodz.pl).

Joanna Czechowska is a British journalist and writer. Her novel The Black Madonna of Derby was first published in Poland under the title Goodbye Polsko in 2006, and then two years later in Great Britain. The lively response from readers encouraged Joanna Czechowska to write the sequel, Sweetest Enemy, which came out in 2012. She lives and works in Derby.