The Book Show

SUBURBIA AND WRITING Encircling Worlds: Imagining Irish Suburbia was a recent conference, held at Carlow College and VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art, where a number of writers and artists came…

The Tools of Historical Fiction On this week’s show Sinead visits Marsh’s Library with Eibhear Walshe (The Diary of Mary Travers) to discuss the inspiration for this historical novel. The Diary…

Sinead talks to Tana French, author of The Secret Place and Megan Abbot author of The Fever. Both these novels centre on schools: The Secret Place focuses on a school in South Dublin…

David Cronenberg is an acclaimed filmmaker with more than 20 movies to his name. Even though he always thought he’d be a writer, his ambitions were sidelined by his movie…

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…

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…

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…

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…