Much later, the hackers sent me a long angry and offensive letter about Co-op's response to their hack and subsequent extortion, which revealed that the retailer narrowly dodged a more severe hack ...

Expertly edited by Maebh Long, these letters are concerned largely with the travails of the jobbing writer. O’Brien was fascinated by St Augustine, but there are few confessions here: vitriol excepted ...

In my heart of hearts I’m on no one’s side but my own.’ It takes a degree of resolution to set about reading a book of nearly seven hundred pages consisting largely of letters to an increasingly sad ...