A plethora of prizes and a new festival A preview of Saturday’s books pages and a round-up of the latest news
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This Saturday’s Irish Times Eason offer is the No 1 bestseller, The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman. When you buy the paper at any store, you can buy the book for 4.99, a saving of 5 euro. Saturday’s pages feature Darragh Geraghty’s selection of the best new audiobooks for summer; an interview by Alex Clark with Valeria Luiselli, winner of the Dublin Literary Award for Lost Children Archive; an extract from Sinead O’Connor’s new memoir, Rememberings; an interview by Amy O’Connor with Caroline O’Donoghue about her new YA novel; and Declan Kiberd reflects on Bob Dylan at 80, filtered through the latest crop of books about the great man.
Michaela Coel wrote and starred in I May Destroy You
The BBC has commissioned six new dramas, including its first from This Is England creator Shane Meadows, and teased a yet-to-be announced project with Michaela Coel.
The Gallows Pole, written by Meadows, is based on the novel of the same name by Benjamin Myers and fictionalises the true story of the rise and fall of a gang of weavers and land-workers in 18th Century Yorkshire.
Meadows has previously produced projects such as This Is England 86, 88 and 90 and The Virtues with Channel 4 in the UK. The Gallows Pole, which will be produced by Element Pictures, is the director’s first period drama.
New images for Jamie Dornan s latest project - The Tourist - have been released as the actor plays a British man being pursued in the Australian outback.
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