The Book Show – S1 #8
Kate Atkinson This week, Kate Atkinson won the Costa Novel of the Year Prize for her book, Life after Life. It tells the story of Ursula Todd, a woman who is reincarnated over the course…
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The Book Show – S1 #7
On the show this week Sinead looks at Young Adult fiction with writer Sheena Wilkinson and David Maybury, Children’s Books Editor at Penguin Ireland as well as double Carnegie medal…
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The Book Show – S1 #6
Ghost Stories The long, winter evenings have been here for a while, but as its winter solstice and we’re edging closer to Christmas, we thought it a good time to…
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The Book Show – S1 #5
This week on The Book Show: Jamie Byng of Canongate and Sarah Davis Goff of Tramp Press discuss the role of the publisher and how manuscripts get from slushpile into…
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The Book Show – Season 1 – Episode 4
Paul Auster Feature Paul Auster is one of America’s greatest writers, who has proved to be just as at home in the novel and short story, as in film scripts,…
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The Book Show – S1 #3
On The Book Show The essay: with Deborah Levy and Mark O’Connell “So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style”,…
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The Book Show – Season 1 – Episode 2
On The Book Show, Sinead Gleeson explores how three authors have retold, reworked and recreated fairytale and classic fiction and what it is that keeps writers returning to particular themes…
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This is the first episode of The Book Show first broadcast on RTE Radio 1 on 2nd November 2013. The Book Show celebrates the writings of Maeve Brennan, talks to…
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