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Beneath the Earth, by John Boyne: Telling tales of transgression

Beneath the Earth, by John Boyne: Telling tales of transgression | The Irish Literary Times | Scoop.it
Review: The unexamined life is the only one worth living for the characters in this collection, writes George O’Brien
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Debut novelist longlisted for second prestigious book award - Independent.ie

Debut novelist longlisted for second prestigious book award - Independent.ie | The Irish Literary Times | Scoop.it
IRISH author Donal Ryan's debut novel 'The Spinning Heart', which has already been longlisted for this year's Booker Prize, has now been longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. The award, worth £10,000, is the most prestigious annual award for new writers in Britain. The Booker winner will be announced in October and the Guardian winner in November. Tipperary-born writer Ryan's novel, completed two years ago, was turned down by 47 publishers before it was taken on by Lilliput Press in Dublin.
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Numéro Cinq: Charlie Tallulah - Fiction extract by Gerard Beirne

Numéro Cinq: Charlie Tallulah - Fiction extract by Gerard Beirne | The Irish Literary Times | Scoop.it

Douglas Glover: "This is from Gerard Beirne‘s new novel Charlie Tallulah, out imminently with Oberon Press in Ottawa. The language is sharp and precise, the dialogue is punctuated à la Joyce using em-dashes instead of quotation marks (see also Robert Day’s serial novel on NC). Two things to note especially: 1) Having lived in the Canadian north by a native reserve for  several years, the Irish-born author knows whereof he speaks; and 2) the author’s way of patterning his text with luminous phrases that reach out of their context toward some larger and more mysterious meaning.

He saw her eyes drift towards the open door. John Lee stood there watching them. -Sorry. I was just passing. But he did not go anywhere. – What is it you can’t see? Cindy asked. – A way out, John Lee replied.

And there is a great scene with a girl and a bear skin (as you all know, this is right up my alley)

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Interview: ‘I find everything interesting’ says Deirdre Madden

Interview: ‘I find everything interesting’ says Deirdre Madden | The Irish Literary Times | Scoop.it
World War One photographs, the Celtic Tiger and the path to progress have all influenced Deirdre Madden’s latest novel as she tells Philip Cummins.

 

STRIDING across the cobble-stoned pathways of Trinity College, Deirdre Madden appears to be at one with Dublin.

It’s interesting to watch because Madden is widely characterized as a uniquely Northern Irish novelist, best-known as the writer of One By One in the Darkness, set during the week of the IRA ceasefire in 1994.

The Antrim native, who has lived in Dublin for decades, with her husband, poet Harry Clifton, is now on novel number eight, the recently published, Time Present and Time Past.

It’s a novel which has been written in-between teaching creative writing at the central Dublin hub meaning its gestation was “a very slow process” as she’s tried to balance her workload. “It’s not always easy,” she says, “so I am very happy to get this latest book finished.”

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