The Irish Times Books Podcast
1) The Little Red Balloon
A reading of 'The Little Red Balloon', the winning entry in the 15-18 category of the Children's Short Story competition, by 17-year-old Emma Broderick, of Muckross Park College, Dublin.
2) Darran Anderson, author of Inventory
Books Editor Martin Doyle talks to Darran Anderson about his memoir of growing up in Troubles-torn Derry, Inventory: A River, A City, A Family. They discuss the book's themes of family, history and m...Show More
3) The best crime fiction of 2019
Welcome to The Irish Times Books Podcast. In this latest episode, Martin Doyle talk to The Irish Times’s two regular crime fiction reviewers, Declan Burke and Declan Hughes, both acclaimed crime write...Show More
4) Remembering Maeve Binchy - with Henrietta McKervey and Gordon Snell
On the eve of this weekend’s Echoes festival in Dalkey, celebrating Maeve Binchy and Irish writing, its programmer, author Henrietta McKervey, and Maeve’s widower, Gordon Snell, join me to talk about ...Show More
5) Danielle McLaughlin - A Partial List of the Saved
It has been some year for Danielle McLaughlin. On Thursday, she won the 2019 Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award, whose £30,000 (€33,500) prize money makes it the world’s richest for a short story....Show More
6) Anthony Farrell, founder of The Lilliput Press
Antony Farrell, of Lilliput Press, which this year celebrates its 35th anniversary, discusses his career in publishing, the history of the press and the “genius” authors with whom he has worked over t...Show More
7) Mick Herron, author of the Slough House series
Welcome to the latest Irish Times Books Podcast, an interview with Mick Herron, the author of the Slough House series of spy novels. Herron is originally from a working-class background in Newcastle ...Show More
8) Joseph O'Connor - Shadowplay
Author Joseph O'Connor talks to Martin Doyle about his new novel Shadowplay, a complicated love affair featuring Dracula creator Bram Stoker, the first Irish writer he fell for. They also talk about ...Show More
9) Laureate na nÓg Sarah Crossan
Welcome to The Irish Times Books Podcast, which this week features my interview with Sarah Crossan, Ireland’s Laureate na nÓg. Crossan is one of Ireland’s most successful Young Adult writers, having ...Show More
10) Writing for Children - with Shane Hegarty, Author of Boot & The Darkmouth Series
Laura Slattery interviews children's author Shane Hegarty about what it means to write for children, with their surprisingly strong taste for peril and horror, and how his own kids's brutal honesty he...Show More
Writing for Children - with Shane Hegarty, Author of Boot & The Darkmouth Series
28:37 | May 11th, 2019