The Book Show S2

This week is our last episode in the current season of The Book Show and we’re devoting the whole episode to writing and music. Gavin Corbett’s 3rd novel Green Glowing…

This week writer and journalist Johann Hari talks to Sinéad about his book Chasing The Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs. In 2011 Hari was…

This week on The Book Show, American writer Ben Lerner talks to Sinéad about his novel 10:04 (Faber).  It’s his second novel. The novel is set in New York and…

This week on The Book Show Sinéad talks to Kevin Maher about his second novel Last Night On Earth (Little Brown).  It’s set in 1995 and tells the story of…

This week on The Book Show we broadcast from Galway where the Cúirt International Festival of Literature is celebrating its 30th birthday. The streets are packed with book lovers, readers…

On tonight’s show Scottish author Ali Smith talks to Sinead about her latest novel How To Be Both. The novel, which was published last year by Hamish Hamilton has this…

Tonight on The Book Show we travel back to 1915, the year before The Easter Rising. We explore the ideas, books and writers that were current at that time. The…

This week The Book Show turns the spotlight on Roddy Doyle in a rare feature length interview. His celebrated The Barrytown Trilogy (The Commitments, The Snapper and The Van) is…

On this week’s Book Show we hear a reading from Akhil Sharma’s novel Family Life. Akhil was a guest on The Book Show last year and this week his novel…

On this week’s Book Show we hear a reading from Akhil Sharma’s novel Family Life. Akhil was a guest on The Book Show last year and this week his novel…