Debut Roundup. January 2018
Andrew Meehan. One Star Awake. New Island: €13.95 Eva finds herself in a Paris restaurant, with no memory of her past. She’s a kitchen hand, and there are many people protecting her, but life is pretty difficult […]
Carlo Gebler
I meet Carlo Gébler at the main gate of Trinity College, in the heart of Dublin, where, as an assistant professor, he is teaching a course on writing for a living. In ebullient form, he tells […]
Lee Child
Lee Child adores Ireland. An admirer of the late Seamus Heaney, he loves it for the storytelling and lyricism of the language, so when we meet in Dublin on a rainy Friday morning, the 63-year-old is […]
Peter Cunningham
Peter Cunningham’s father served in World War Two. And though Peter knew he was brave – he was the only Irishman to be awarded the Military Cross – he always wondered how his fortunes had, suddenly […]
Roddy Doyle
When Roddy Doyle was thirteen years old, and in first year at the Christian Brothers School in Sutton, the class were trying to convince their French teacher not to give them homework. The Brother looked at […]
Karen Perry
When the poet, and short-story writer Paul Perry suggested that he and his friend Karen Gillece should write a novel together, Karen was sceptical. The novelist of four successful books was busy working on a fifth. […]
Nicole Krauss
It’s been seven years since Nicole Krauss last produced a novel. Her publishers have made much of this in their publicity for her new novel, Forest Dark, but the 43-year-old, recognised both by Granta and The […]
Debut Roundup November and December, 2017.
PUBLISHED BY BOOKS IRELAND S.A. Dunphy. After She Vanished. Hachette Books Ireland. David Dunnigan is a mess. A criminology lecturer at Maynooth University, he also works as a consultant for the Garda special investigations unit in […]
John Banville
When John Banville first read A Portrait of a Lady, he fell in love. In his twenties at the time, mesmerised by James’s genius, he was enchanted by the style, innovation and restraint. But most of […]
Ken Follett
When Ken Follett left University College London in 1970, he had three choices of career. He’d been offered jobs by the consumer goods giant Unilever; by ICL, which was then considered the British equivalent of IBM; […]
Caroline Grace-Cassidy
Caroline Grace-Cassidy is looking glamorous when we meet in a Dublin café on a Monday afternoon. She’s arrived fresh from TV3 where she was appearing on The Elaine Show – the show hosted by Elaine Crowley, […]
Bernard MacLaverty
In a dream life, Bernard MacLaverty would be a pianist. He can’t play the piano; he can’t read music either, but he’s a passionate listener, and has been so since wisps of opera drifted up the […]