The Book Show – S2 #32 Finale
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…
The Book Show: Season 2
The Book Show – S2 #31
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…
The Book Show – S2 #30
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…
The Book Show – S2 #29
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…
The Book Show – S2 #28
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…
The Book Show – S2 #27
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…
The Book Show – S2 #26
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…
The Book Show – S2 #25
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…
The Book Show – S2 #24
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…
The Book Show – S2 #23
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…
The Book Show – S2 #22
On The Book Show this week we talk to debut novelist Lucy Wood about Weathering. It’s the story of three generations of women whose lives are centred on a house…
The Book Show – S2 #21
We celebrate International Women’s Day this week on The Book Show with an all-woman show! Beginning in Bath, in the UK, Sinead Gleeson talks to Viv Groskop. Viv is a…
The Book Show – S2 #20
This week on The Book Show, we explore books and translation. We begin at the Centre for Literary Translation which this year celebrates its 21st anniversary. Sinéad Gleeson visits…
The Book show – S2 #19
This week The Book Show visits The Irish Writers’ Centre in Dublin to hear about their annual Novel Fair. On Saturday 21st of February, 12 writers (from a list of…
The Book Show – S2 #18
In this week’s show, writers Liz Nugent and SJ Watson join Sinead in studio to discuss their psychological thrillers and the dark side of love. Liz Nugent’s debut novel Unravelling…
The Book Show – S2 #17
This week on The Book Show we look at the relationship between writers and place and how themes such as emigration, leaving home, returning home and living abroad can influence…
The Book Show – S2 #16
Tonight we travel to New York to meet filmmaker, artist and author Miranda July who has just published her first novel, The First Bad Man (Canongate Books). The novel tells…
The Book Show – S2 #15
As the UK publisher Picador announces its new imprint, Picador Classics – which includes Irish authors John Banville, Colm Toibín, Pat McCabe and Niall Williams – we ask What Makes…
The Book Show – S2 #14
This evening Sinead Gleeson is joined by broadcaster Rick O’Shea, bookseller Louisa Cameron and Sam Jordison from The Guardian Readers’ Group to discuss book clubs. Both Rick and Sam host…
The Book Show – S2 #13
On the show this week Sinead talks to Marie Helene-Bertino about her debut novel 2 A.M. at The Cat’s Pajamas . Aspiring jazz singer Madeleine Altimari is a clever, rebellious…
The Book Show – S2 #12
On the show this week Regan Hutchins explores the work of American poet Thom Gunn, an award-winning poet known for works that included Fighting Terms, Touch and The Man With…
The Book Show – S2 #11
Tonight on The Book Show we hear all about ghost stories. Sinead visits the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and is joined by archivist Maedhbh Murphy there who shows…
The Book Show – S2 #10
Alan Cumming has just been nominated for a Golden Globe for his performance in The GoodWife and his now reprised role in Cabaret on Broadway has earned him huge acclaim…now…
The Book Show – S2 #9
This week on The Book Show we’re live from The Twisted Pepper The Book Show is broadcast in front of a live audience in Dublin’s Twisted Pepper this week, in…
The Book Show – S2 #8
This week on The Book Show we’re focusing on Young Adult Fiction. Eoin Colfer is the Children’s Laureate for ireland and the author of the Artemis Fowl series (which has…
The Book Show – S2 #7
This week The Book Show visits the writer and broadcaster Clive James for an extended interview at his home in Cambridge. Since he joined The Observer newspaper as a television…
The Book Show – S2 #6
This week Sinead talks to Irish writer Bernard MacLaverty about his work Lamb, Cal and just-published short stories and also in the programme we learn what to do with an…
The Book Show – S2 #5
Peter Carey Two time Booker winner Peter Carey’s new novel Amnesia uses as background mid-70s Australian history, when the Whitlam Labour government was brought down by US and British…
The Book Show – S2 #4
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 Book Show – S2 #3
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…
The Book Show – S2 #2
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…
The Book Show – S2 #1
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…