What happened to Forrest Reid?

E. M. Forster once described Forrest Reid as “the most important man in Belfast“. Why has this unique and brilliant novelist been forgotten?

This Tuesday was the 150th anniversary of the birth of Forrest Reid, Northern Ireland’s most important - and forgotten - novelist.

For those who are interested in his work, and why he is no longer fashionable, I wrote a piece about him for UnHerd, which you can read here.

As for those who are new to Reid’s work, I would recommend his novel Young Tom and…