Brilliant New Irish Books To Look Forward To This Year
New books are on the way from some of our most feted writers …
Colm Tóibín‘s short story collection, The News from Dublin, arrives at the end of March. Award-winning Cork writer Danielle McLaughlin’s Rituals (Stinging Fly) lands in April, as does Jan Carson’s Few and Far Between (Doubleday). Over the Water: Essays on Islands (Daunt Books) features essays from Sinéad Gleeson and Megan Nolan. Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s hotly anticipated Said the Dead (Faber & Faber) lands in May, along with Sarah Gilmartin’s Little Vanities (One).
Later in the year we’ll see new work from Donal Ryan, Niamh Campbell, Louise O’Neill and Louise Kennedy, plus Keith Ridgway’s Dooneen (Fitzcarraldo), a ghostly, strange take on Dublin.
Finally, how do you follow a blockbuster like Hamnet? We’ll find out in June, when Maggie O’Farrell’s new novel Land (Bloomsbury) arrives. Described as an epic portrayal of a family living with the legacy of Ireland’s Great Hunger, Land is inspired by the Coleraine-born author’s own love of Ireland.
Non-fiction standouts include Katrina O’Sullivan’s second memoir, a follow-up to the award-winning Poor. Hungry: A Biography of My Body (Wildflower) lands in April. And in May, renowned journalist and author Sally Hayden finds love stories in fractured, chaotic times: This Is Also A Love Story (4th Estate).
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