Coming up in the books pages in The Irish Times this Saturday, Anne Griffin, author of When All Is Said, discusses the chance meeting that inspired her debut; Geraldine Quigley, author of Music Love Drugs War, talks about capturing her youth in Derry, where the tug of the Troubles dragged down even disaffected post-punk teenagers; and Joe Cleary salutes the late Pascale Casanova, a French champion of Irish writing.
Our reviews include John Boyne on Billy O’Callaghan’s My Coney Island Baby; Jonathan McAloon on The Wall by John Lanchester; Seán Hewitt on Out of the Woods by Luke Turner; Rob Doyle on Turbulence by David Szalay and, in his Old Favourites column, Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground; NJ McGarrigle on The Sopranos Sessions; Stephen Philips on Camelot’s End: Kennedy vs Carter and the Fight That Broke the Democratic Party; Michael O’Higgins on Counterparts, edited by Danielle McLaughlin; Henrietta McKervery on Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie Obiama; David Hayden on Not Working by Josh Cohen; Sarah Gilmartin on Golden Child by Claire Adam; Claire Hennessy on the best new YA fiction; and a new poem by Bernard O’Donoghue.
If all of that wasn’t enough, purchasers of The Irish Times in Eason’s this weekend can also buy Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff for just €4.99, a big saving of €7. The greatest offer ever?
