Colm Tóibín is an Irish novelist, poet and critic. His work has been nominated multiple times for the Booker Prize and won the Costa Novel and Impac Awards, amongst others. Tóibín has worked as a journalist, published nine novels, two collections of stories, multiple plays and numerous works of non-fiction and criticism. He has also held teaching positions at Princeton, the University of Manchester and Columbia University and had his work translated into thirty languages. Tóibín’s latest novel, The Magician, is out in paperback now.

Stop and Look – The Race Meeting by Sir John Everett Millais (1853)
In The Race Meeting, Sir John Everett Millais presents a poignant story of an undisciplined crowd at the Epsom Derby.