Category Archives: News

I’ll be in conversation with Colm Tóibín at the Center for Fiction in New York on Thursday, February 23 at 7pm. Details available on the Chicago Tribune website.

Today on the online magazine The Millions, I’m taking part in the annual A Year In Reading series, talking about two books which really struck me during the course of 2011: Gillian Rose’s memoir Love’s Work and Jonathan Lethem’s non-fiction collection … Continue reading →

Solace made the Chicago Tribune list of the best fiction of 2011. It’s in some pretty good company… List available on the website.

Solace has been named Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book of the Year 2011. Thanks so much to those who’ve shown such support for the novel – this is a huge honour. More here.

Jonathan Ruppin, Web Editor at Foyles Bookstore London, chose his top ten works of fiction from the last year, and SOLACE is included in the mix: A passionate and moving first novel, written with brittle lyricism, by a talented playwright … Continue reading →

I chose my books of the year for the annual round-up in the Irish Times this weekend: Richard Beard’s Lazarus Is Dead (Harvill Secker, £14.99) is a brilliant reimagining of the Lazarus story – a young man thrust into a situation … Continue reading →

Sebastian Barry chooses his books of 2011 in today’s Guardian, and Solace is in there, along with Kevin Barry’s City of Bohane, Ali Smith’s There But For The, and Steve Sem-Sandberg’s The Emperor of Lies. Barry describes Solace as “subtle” … Continue reading →

SOLACE won the Sunday Independent Best Newcomer Award at last night’s Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards in Dublin. The novel was also shortlisted for Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year, a category which was won by Neil … Continue reading →

Thanks to Lisa Campbell at We Love This Book, a new magazine and website which belong to the stable of The Bookseller, for interviewing me about Solace. The piece is here, and an extract is below. 

I joined the folks on TV3′s Ireland AM to talk about Solace. Watch the interview here.