By John Banville I have a thing against Venice. In fact, I have a number of things against Venice. The avarice. The tourists. The smells. Some years ago I was strolling along one of those dim, dank alleyways near St Mark’s Square, in the company of a friend who shares my aversion to the place. Suddenly a rat scuttled past us and dived part way into a drain, leaving its long pink tail draped on the flagstones. My friend and …
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Garrett Carr on help he received from old fishermen when writing The Boy from the Sea. The Boy from the Sea unfolds over twenty years and is about a fishing …
A darkly epic novel about connection, disconnection and destruction – from the New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-winning, Booker Prize-longlisted author of Let the Great World Spin. Twist by Colum …
I have always been drawn to untold stories. Perhaps this instinct stems from the immigrant experience, having been brought up by Irish parents living in England, who then migrated back …
Join master storyteller Kieran Fanning as he visits every county in Ireland through 32 spine-chilling tales. Here’s a sneak peek from Dublin! THE DOLOCHER If you walk up the steps …
We are delighted to share a blog by Niall Williams on his latest publication, Time of The Child. It seems to me that all novelists are explorers of unknown worlds. …
Our bookseller Ryan, in Dubray Cork interviews author Shauna Lawless on her latest novel, The Land of the Living and the Dead! Shauna Lawless first came on the scene with …
Saying goodbye has never been easy for me. I was very much reminded of that while writing ‘Don’t Look Back in Ongar’, the 24th and FINAL novel in the Ross O’Carroll-Kelly …
I simply cannot imagine a life without ladies’ Gaelic football. I first started playing Gaelic football at eleven and when I think back on my teens and early adulthood, so …
Award-winning writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romantic tale of young lovers on the lam in 1890s Montana. He shares a few words …
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