Books newsletter: a preview of Saturday’s pages; Colm Tóibín to do one-off Dingle Lit event
In The Irish Times this Saturday, Molly Aitken tells Niamh Donnelly about her new novel, Bright I Burn. Darragh Geraghty recommends 15 of the best new audiobooks for your summer holidays. Hugh Linehan looks at the controversy surrounding sponsor Baillie Gifford’s withdrawal from several literary festivals. And there is a Q&A with crime writer Andrea Mara about her career and her latest thriller, Someone in the Attic.
This Saturday’s Irish Times Eason offer is A Thread of Violence by Mark O’Connell, just €5.99, a €5 saving.Award-winning illustrator Annie West’s entire collection of original pen and ink artwork, sketches, notes, storyboards and script of The Late Night Writers Club has been acquired by the Special Collections Department at The National Library of Ireland.
The Sligo-based illustrator is one of the few book illustrators in Ireland still working only on paper. The visual archive of The Late Night Writers Club contains more than 105 full-colour original pen and ink illustrations, 272 pages of drafts and notes, along with work in progress photos and videos. The collection will be made available to the public when it has been catalogued.
West said: “It is such a great honour to have my work, but more importantly, to have this illustration-based work become part of our national collections. Illustrators are often overlooked alongside our literary peers so this is indeed a lovely moment of recognition for all Illustrators.
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