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Neil Jordan discusses 'The Ballad of Lord Edward and Citizen Small'. The Fingal Libraries Online Book Club puts the questions to Rónán Hession about 'Leonard and Hungry Paul'. Aifric O'Connell looks at some of the best plot twists in contemporary fiction.
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Doireann Ní Ghríofa, Liz Nugent, Michael Harding, Catherine Ryan Howard, Mike McCormack, Elaine Feeney, Patrick Freyne & Anna Carey join with book clubs from around the country to say goodbye to 2020. Phew.
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With the huge success of Champagne Football, Mark Tighe talks about it and the inspiration he found in All The President's Men. The Best Book Club EVER (that's its name) in Mallow, Co Cork ask Maggie O'Farrell about Hamnet. And Stefanie Preissner looks at what the books we choose for others says about how we see them.
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Helen Cullen talks about lack of the representation of ‘The Irish Mammy’ in fiction and insights gained from her own novel ‘The Truth Must Dazzle Gradually’. Chris Whitaker answers questions from the Readin’ & Feedin’ Book Club in Drogheda, Co Louth about his novel ‘We Begin At The End’. Stefanie Preissner has a bone to pick about cop clichés.
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With Big Girl, Small Town shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award, Michelle Gallen talks about small-town Ireland. Doireann Ní Ghríofa answers questions from the Wicklow Women’s Book Club about ‘A Ghost in the Throat’, the Irish non-fiction book of the year at the An Post Irish Book Awards.
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John Banville tells us why we need to read Hubert Butler. Stefanie Preissner has a wish-list of books she would like to read...once they have been written, that is. And the Giant’s Causeway Book Club put their questions to Sarah Crossan about her novel One.
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From The Haunting of Hill House to a terraced one in East Belfast, Jan Carson will look at terrorising of the domestic space and the legacy of Shirley Jackson. Stefanie Preissner navigates the blurred lines between fact and fiction. And the Bitchin' Book Club in Dublin will be put their questions to Louise O’Neill, about her novel Asking For It.
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On this edition of The Book Show...when Jack becomes Jacqueline: we’re talking gender-swapped fairytales. Stefanie Preissner has reached 'peak memoir' and she should know she’s written two, The Book Movie Whiskey Album Club in Limerick city can’t wait to get stuck into John Connell’s The Cow Book.
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Bookseller and author Shaun Bythell talks about The Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops. We will take a look at the role of suspense in fiction, and the Tanyard Lane Book Club, Tullamore, Co Offaly quiz Anne Griffin, the Irish Book Awards Newcomer of the Year 2019 about her novel, ‘When All Is Said’.
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On this edition of the Book Show: a possible culture clash as teachers in Kerry question Paul Howard about Ross O’Carroll Kelly, Stefanie Preissner has tips to finally tackle that ever increasing pile of books marked ‘to be read’ and writer Jenny Offill talks about trying to be funny about climate crisis...and life in the US in general.
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Children's author and screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce spells out why children's books are so important and why they should be afforded more respect. Sara Baume will be quizzed by the Mannan Castle Book Club from Co Monaghan about her novel 'spill simmer falter wither'
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With publishing pioneer Lennie Goodings of Virago & Donal Ryan.
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Best selling thriller author Michael Connelly on how he solved his own problem writing during this pandemic in an eerily quiet Los Angeles. We look at how bookshops might function when they reopen, hear from a first time author who has yet to see her debut novel in an actual shop & book clubs recommend some of their favourite reads for the summer.
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On this week's podcast Rick O’Shea gets a socially distant tour of Ian Rankin’s writer’s den in Edinburgh, Colum McCann - under lockdown - in the US, is grilled about his novel Apeirogon by a book club whose latest meeting he gatecrashed and Stefanie Preissner has the latest news from the world of books.
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On this week's podcast Rick O'Shea hears about some of the 'perverse pilgrimages' embarked upon by Mark O'Connell in his search for how best to survive the apocalypse, Liz Nugent is quizzed by the Tuesday-Thursday Book Club in Tramore Library about her novel 'Skin Deep' and Stefanie Preissner has the week's news.
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Rick talks to Naoise Dolan about her debut novel ‘Exciting Times’ which is set in Hong Kong and is one of the reasons she has been able to beat the ‘reader’s block’ which had been plaguing him of late. Stefanie Preissner has the week’s book news and Mike McCormack answers questions from the Roundwood Book Club about his work ‘Solar Bones’.
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In this week's Book Show Rick O'Shea talks to Maggie O'Farrell about her telling of the story of Shakespeare's son Hamnet. Sebastian Barry is grilled by the Castlebar Library Book Club about his novel 'Days Without End' and Stefanie Preissner brings you the week's book news.
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In the first of a new series Derek Landy tells Rick O’Shea about the problems with writing in a time of pandemic and Anne Enright is quizzed by the Wise Owl Book Club from Navan.
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A very special Book Show for Christmas Day 2019
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Wexford author Eoin Colfer has sold over 25million copies of his books, including his popular Artemis Fowl series. Rick O’Shea went to visit him in his creative hub – the shed at the end of his garden.
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