Roddy Doyle: Bullfighting [2011] paperback FILMS 'Ruth Jones writes with such

'Ruth Jones writes with such warmth you can't help but fall in love with the characters she creates

So often the stories shared by trans people about their transition centre on gender dysphoria: a feeling of deep discomfort with their birth-assigned gender

'-BRANDON TAYLOR

Two tales of love and injustice twist into a singular yarn where time gets timeless

Roddy Doyle: Bullfighting [2011] paperback FILMS 'Ruth Jones writes with suchThe men in Bullfighting are each concerned with loss in different ways of their place in their world, of power, virility, love of the boom days and the Celtic Tiger. 'The stories, his memories, were wearing out' the narrator of the title story thinks, 'and there was nothing new replacing them.' The stories move from classrooms to graveyards, local pubs to bullrings; featuring an array of men at their working day and at rest, taking stock and reliving