In The Irish Times this Saturday, Joseph O’Neill tells Keith Duggan about his new novel, Godwin, his Cork roots and his fear at the prospect of Donald Trump returning to the White House. Anna Carey recommends 21 summer reads and there is a Q&A with poet Alvy Carragher. Reviews are Ian Hughes on Inheritance: The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World by Harvey Whitehouse and Why War? By Richard Overy; Donald Clarke on Amnesiac by Neil Jordan; Rónán Hession on the best new translations; Oliver Farry on Massacre in the CloudsAn American Atrocity and the Erasure of History by Kim A Wagner; Ruby Eastwood on Selected Kafka Stories and the Kafkaesque anthology, A Cage Went in Search of a Bird; Lucy Sweeney Byrne on Scaffolding by Lauren Elkin; Laura Slattery on The Racket: On Tour with Tennis’s Golden Generation – and the other 99% by Conor Niland; John Boyne on Silverback by Phil Harrison; and Sarah Gilmartin on Parade by Rachel Cusk.
This weekend’s Irish Times Eason offer is A Thread of Violence by Mark O’Connell, just €5.99, a €5 saving. Eason offer Soula Emmanuel, a trans writer who was born in Dublin to an Irish mother and a Greek father, has won the Gordon Bowker Volcano Prize for her debut novel, Wild Geese, published last month by Footnote Press.
READ MORE The prize, awarded to a UK or Irish writer, or one resident in those countries, is for a novel focusing on the experience of travel away from home. In memory of Malcolm Lowry and endowed by Gordon Bowke.
