Readers who buy The Irish Times this Saturday at Eason’s can avail of a special offer to buy Maggie O’Farrell’s acclaimed memoir I Am, I Am, I Am for only €4.99, a discount of €6. Reviewing it for the Irish Times, author Claire Kilroy wrote: “I can count on one hand the books that made me cry and still have two fingers spare. I am, I am, I am is one of them.”
In Saturday’s Irish Times, John Boyne talks to Sarah Gilmartin about the end of a relationship and the latest rung in his career, his new novel, A Ladder to the Sky, which is his take on the literary world – the egos, backbiting, bullying and betrayal – inspired by his own experiences.
Éilís Ní Dhuibhne reflects in an essay on her life as an Irish woman and writer: “The year I was born 300 books were banned in Ireland and women were not seen as writers. We have made some progress since then.”
Our summer fiction series continues with The Possibility of Snow, a short story by Louise Nealon, winner of the Seán Ó Faoláin International Short Story Competition.
Our reviews include Eoin McNamee on Country by Michael Hughes; Jonathan McAloon on Everything Under by Daisy Johnson, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize; Paschal Donohoe on How Growth Really Happens, edited by Michael Best; Seán Hewitt on Perfidious Albion by Sam Byers; NJ McGarrigle on Bruce Lee: A Life by Matthew Polly; Sarah Gilmartin on People in the Room by Norah Lange; Stephen Phillips on The Death of Truth by Michiko Kakutani; Brian Dillon on Trans-Europe Express: Tours of a Lost Continent by Owen Hatherley; Claire Hennessy on the best new YA fiction; Julie Parsons on Life and Fate by Vassily Grossman; and a Triad for Shane MacGowan by poet Derek Mahon.
