Dec 28, 2020
Louis de Bernières may be known worldwide as the author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - but at nineteen, teaching in Colombia, he was known for something else. Dancing like a chicken.
He talks to City of Books about how "we raised a lot of dust, raised a lot of fun" during that life-changing period in South America....
Dec 11, 2020
In her first podcast interview since winning the An Post Irish Book of the Year award for 2020, Doireann Ní Ghríofa describes how she shares her life with a famous 18th century widow – Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill.
When she began the literary detective work that resulted in A Ghost in the Throat, Doireann began to...