Books newsletter: a preview of Saturday’s pages and a wrap of the latest news
In The Irish Times this Saturday, award-winning author Barbara Kingsolver and her daughter Lily talk to Keith Duggan about their illustrated children’s book, Coyote’s Wild Home, and there is a Q&A with Estelle Birdy, author of the debut novel Ravelling.
Reviews are Daniel Geary on A Great Disorder by Richard Slotkin; Mei Chin on Private Revolutions: Coming of Age in a New China by Yuan Yang; Seán Duke on Everything Is Predictable: How Bayes’ Remarkable Theorem Explains the World by Tom Chivers; Claire Hennessy on the best new YA fiction; Val Nolan on This Is How You Remember It by Catherine Prasifka; Tom McCarthy on Cork/Corcaigh by HB Clarke and Máire Ní Laoi; Helena Mulkerns on Cork Stories, edited by Madeleine D’Arcy and...
This Saturday’s Irish Times Eason offer is multiple award-winner The Bee Sting by Paul Murray, just €5.99, a €5 saving.is set to take place on Saturday, June 8th with a line-up of more than 130 events across the university’s Belfield campus. The festival’s literary curator is RTÉ broadcasterwill discuss his book Reeling in the Queers, delving into lesser-known stories behind the fight for LGBTQ rights since 1974.
Hosted by Donegal’s own The Pig’s Back, in partnership with Holy Show, the fleadh will showcase Ireland’s finest writing talent, give writers and readers a chance to meet some of the people behind Ireland’s flourishing journals scene, and pack in a few swims as well as a night of stories and live music.This year marks the 25th anniversary of bilateral relations between Ireland and Colombia, and two Colombian writers are taking part in the International Literature Festival Dublin this month.
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