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The Irish Times Books Podcast

The Books Podcast with Martin Doyle. Sponsored by Green & Blacks.

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Sinéad Gleeson and Sarah Davis-Goff

Sinéad Gleeson and Sarah Davis-Goff

April’s Irish Times Books Podcast features interviews with Sinéad Gleeson about her acclaimed collection of personal ess... Read more

13 Apr 2019

45mins

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Mick Herron, author of the Slough House series

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... Read more

6 Jul 2019

24mins

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Anthony Farrell, founder of The Lilliput Press

Anthony Farrell, founder of The Lilliput Press

Antony Farrell, of Lilliput Press, which this year celebrates its 35th anniversary, discusses his career in publishing, ... Read more

16 Aug 2019

42mins

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Writing for Children - with Shane Hegarty, Author of Boot & The Darkmouth Series

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 surprisi... Read more

11 May 2019

28mins

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Paul Lynch

Paul Lynch

Grace, the third novel by Irish author Paul Lynch, was the winner of this year’s Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year. In... Read more

2 Jul 2018

45mins

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Laureate na nÓg Sarah Crossan

Laureate na nÓg Sarah Crossan

Welcome to The Irish Times Books Podcast, which this week features my interview with Sarah Crossan, Ireland’s Laureate n... Read more

25 May 2019

29mins

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Joseph O'Connor - Shadowplay

Joseph O'Connor - Shadowplay

Author Joseph O'Connor talks to Martin Doyle about his new novel Shadowplay, a complicated love affair featuring Dracula... Read more

8 Jun 2019

1hr 3mins

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Kevin Breathnach - Tunnel Vision

Kevin Breathnach - Tunnel Vision

Martin Doyle talks to young author Kevin Breathnach about his acclaimed debut collection of essays, Tunnel Vision, which... Read more

16 Mar 2019

30mins

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Lisa Harding - Harvesting

Lisa Harding - Harvesting

Laura Slattery talks to Lisa Harding, author of Harvesting.

30 Nov 2018

36mins

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Helen Cullen - The Lost Letters of William Woolf

Helen Cullen - The Lost Letters of William Woolf

Books Editor Martin Doyle talks to Helen Cullen about her novel The Lost Letters of William Woolf.Recorded at the Waterf... Read more

5 Nov 2018

40mins

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Kit de Waal - The Trick to Time

Kit de Waal - The Trick to Time

The Trick to Time by Kit de Waal is May’s Irish Times Book Club choice. Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction eve... Read more

31 May 2018

58mins

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Sinéad Gleeson - The Long Gaze Back

Sinéad Gleeson - The Long Gaze Back

This month's guest is Sinéad Gleeson, one of Ireland's leading arts journalists. She is a former presenter of the book s... Read more

27 Apr 2018

50mins

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June Caldwell - Room Little Darker

June Caldwell - Room Little Darker

This episode features a conversation between Irish Times Books Editor Martin Doyle and June Caldwell, author of Room Lit... Read more

4 Apr 2018

42mins

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Sally Rooney - Conversations With Friends

Sally Rooney - Conversations With Friends

Conversations With Friends, Sally Rooney’s critically acclaimed first novel, has picked up deserved word-of-mouth moment... Read more

30 Nov 2017

46mins

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Adrian McKinty - Rain Dogs

Adrian McKinty - Rain Dogs

Rain Dogs by Adrian McKinty is October’s Irish Times Book Club pick. The Edgar Award-winning thriller is the fifth in th... Read more

1 Nov 2017

35mins

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Neil Hegarty - Inch Levels

Neil Hegarty - Inch Levels

Why do so many readers tell writer Neil Hegarty that he captured their own family dynamic in his debut novel Inch Levels... Read more

29 Sep 2017

37mins

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Shane Connaughton - Married Quarters

Shane Connaughton - Married Quarters

This month's novel is Married Quarters by Shane Connaughton. Books Editor Martin Doyle interviewed him at the West Cork ... Read more

31 Aug 2017

1hr 6mins

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Jennifer Johnston

Jennifer Johnston

Welcome to the Irish Times Book Club podcast for June 2017.If this is your first time listening, you might be wondering ... Read more

30 Jun 2017

44mins

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Booker Special - David Grossman and Jessica Cohen

Booker Special - David Grossman and Jessica Cohen

This week the Man Booker International Prize, awarded for fiction translated in English, was won by David Grossman and h... Read more

16 Jun 2017

23mins

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EM Reapy - Red Dirt

EM Reapy - Red Dirt

Laura Slattery interviews EM Reapy about her novel Red Dirt at The Irish Writer's Centre.www.irishwriterscentre.ie www.i... Read more

31 May 2017

27mins

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