In Saturdayâs Irish Times, we publish Dirty Linen: a personal history of Northern Ireland, a revised version of my contribution to The 32: An Anthology of Irish Working-Class Voices, edited by Paul McVeigh, to be published by Unbound in July.
Reviews are Diarmaid Ferriter on The Partition: Ireland Divided, 1885-1925 by Charles Townshend Louise Kennedy on Real Estate by Deborah Levy; Claire Hennessy on the best new YA fiction; Sarah Moss on Snowflake by Louise Nealon; Paschal Donohoe on Together: 10 Choices for a Better Now Ece Temelkuran; Sarah Gilmartin on The Rules of Revelation by Lisa McInerney; Anna Carey on The Beauty of Impossible Things by Rachel Donohue; Paul Gillespie on State and Nation in the United Kingdom: The Fractured Union by Michael Keating; and Houman Barekast on Intimacies by Lucy Caldwell.
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Listowel Writers’ Week will mark its 50th anniversary this year.
The event, which includes the National Children’s Literary Festival, was established in the north Kerry heritage town in 1970.
Due to the pandemic, it will be run virtually for the first time and among those taking part from June 2nd to 6th will be Colm Tóibín, Patrick McGrath and Christine Dwyer Hickey.
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The winners of the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year and Pigott Poetry Prize will also be announced on June 2nd.
More information can be found on writers week dot ie (https://writersweek.ie)
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FOUR books from Australia are among the contenders for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, with the announcement coinciding with the 250th anniversary of the author’s birth. The longlist has 11 books in contention for the £25,000 and was revealed yesterday. Two of the Australian books are not yet published in the UK. Settings of the books on the list range from Tudor, Victorian and Edwardian England to Borneo, Tasmania, Indonesia, Japan, the US, Russia and East Africa. The 2021 prize was open to books published in the UK, Ireland and the Commonwealth during 2020. Those in the running include Hinton by Mark Blacklock, The Tolstoy Estate by Steven Conte, and The Mirror And The Light by Hilary Mantel. The judges said: “Historical fiction has not obeyed any lockdown. Instead, in this year’s new publishing, there has been an explosion of lively ideas and fresh ways of storytelling, with traditional notions of historical fiction stretched and tested.