The Book Show

Gay and Lesbian Sexuality in Literature Brian Merriman Director of the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival and author of Wilde Stages in Dublin and broadcaster and Journalist Una Mullally join…

Short Stories – Pindrop This week’s show is dedicated to the short story, and we’re in three countries. In New York, we visited New Yorker Fiction Editor Deborah Treisman at…

JP Donleavy Almost 60 years ago, James Patrick Donleavy published what is now regarded as both a cult and classic Irish novel, in The Ginger Man. It was the beginning…

Hanif Kureishi Hanif Kureishi ’s new novel The Last Word focuses on the relationship between an ambitious young biographer; Harry Johnson and his subject; Mamoon Azam an elderly Indian novelist….

First World War On this week’s Show Broadcaster and Historian Myles Dungan and writer Lia Mills join Sinead Gleeson in studio to discuss books written about and during the First…

Junot Diaz Dominican writer Junot Diaz is the author of The Brief and Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao, which won him a Pulitzer Prize, and of the short story collection…