A round-up of the latest literary news and preview of Saturday’s books pages
In this Saturday’s Irish Times, John Robb talks to Peter Murphy about his new book, The Art of Darkness: The History of Goth, and how the late 1970s and 1980s music and style subculture has endured. Liz Nugent tells me about her runaway bestseller Strange Sally Diamond and her run-in with Malcolm Macarthur.
This weekend’s Irish Times Eason book offer is the acclaimed novel set during the Belfast Blitz, These Days by the award-winning author Lucy Caldwell. You can buy it for just €4.99, a €6 saving, with your paper in any store.Sara Baume has been shortlisted for the Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize, a leading international literary award for young writers –, which follows a young couple’s attempts to disappear from society after they relocate to the Irish countryside.
Di Speirs, chair of the judges, and Books Editor at BBC Audio, said: “There’s brilliance and beauty in the six books shortlisted for this year’s Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize. All six – while hugely different in style, subject and genre, and ranging from rural Tasmania and the wild Irish coast to the sharply contemporary in Nigeria and the UK – exemplify not only the talent and excitingly fresh, often startling, writing we were seeking, but draw the reader in and on.
The winner of the £20,000 prize will be announced in Swansea on May 11th, prior to International Dylan Thomas Day on May 14th.It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over
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