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The Badness of Killy – sorry Bally – dog
Novelist Garrett Carr is writing a trilogy for teenagers. The first in the series, The Badness of Ballydog, describes a town in which there is no morality and which faces horrific danger.
Garrett is from Donegal and to someone who knows the area, Ballydog bears a striking resemblance the fishing port of Killybegs.
What prompted Garrett to write for young people?
Sheena Wilkinson
The novelist Sheena Wilkinson read from her forthcoming book Taking Flight, at a Write! Down reading session in the Downpatrick Arts Centre on Sunday February 28.
Life and Writing
Posted by Malachi in Interviews, Novelists, Readings, Writing on September 28th, 2009
Carlo Gebler is a distinguished novelist who made prison his theme is recent books, including the outstanding novel A Good Day for a Dog.
At the Wigtown Booktown Festival he met Erwin James, a convicted lifer who became a columnist for the Guardian while still inside.
I spoke to them together after their presentation.
Ian Sansom
One of the funniest public speakers in Ireland today is the novelist Ian Sansom. He seems to have perversely chosen to present himself as a grumpy, thran and almost funereal sort of bloke for this pic.
Here is a piece of his talk to the John Hewitt Summer School in Armagh in July, about his sequence of novels on the adventures of a Mobile Library.
Twelve Just Ghosts
Posted by Malachi in Interviews, Novelists on June 11th, 2009
Stuart Neville’s forthcoming novel The Twelve is raising huge expectations. It is a post peace process thriller in which the ghosts of murdered people exact revenge by haunting their killer and getting him to settle their scores against paramilitary warlords. Great stuff. OK, there’s a theme developing here, through Jo Baker and Sinead Morrissey – hauntings.
Jo Baker
Posted by Malachi in Interviews, Novelists, Reflections on June 3rd, 2009
Jo Baker’s new novel The Telling is now out in paperback. It combines two stories in parallel, one from the present, one from the early nineteenth century. They are linked by a ghost, or by a fretful woman’s imaginings of one.
Baker teaches creative writing at Lancaster University and writes a blog too.
The Unfettered Writer
Posted by Malachi in Interviews, Novelists on May 21st, 2009
The theme under discussion at the John Hewitt Spring School in Carnlough this year was ‘Unfettered Thought’.
Did the writers there feel that they had had to work to shake off cultural fetters before they were free to create?
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