In The Irish Times tomorrow, author Sarah Crossan tells Niamh Donnelly about her pivot from teaching to writing and her latest books on forbidden love affairs and sex dolls. Richard Ford writes about the race between Trump and Biden for the US presidency: “Neither of these gibbering, teetering old grandpas should be able to beat anybody”. Tennis player Conor Niland tells Lauren Murphy about his memoir, The Racket.
And there is a Q&A with Michelle McDonagh, author of Somebody Knows. Reviews are Chris Kissane on Plentiful Country: The Great Potato Famine and the Making of Irish New York by Tyler Anbinder; Ian D’Alton on Ulster’s Lost Counties: Loyalism and Paramilitarism since 1920 by Edward Burke; Michael Cronin on the best new translations; Val Nolan on The Ghost Mountain by Ronan Hession; Nicholas Allen on Exile by Aimée Walsh; Anna Carey on All the Rage by Virginia Nicholson; Karlin Lillington on The Everything War: Amazon’s Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power by Dana Mattioli; Alice Kinsella on The Eighth House by Linda Segtnan, translated by Elizabeth Clark Wessel; John Boyne on Great Expectations Vinson Cunningham; John Walshe on Around the World in 80 Years by Ranulph Fiennes; and Mia Levitin on Long Island by Colm Tóibín. This weekend’s Irish Times Eason offer is Booker Prize winner Prophet Song by Paul Lynch, just €5.
99 with your paper, a €5 saving. Eason offer Irish writer Niamh Connolly has won the Women’s Prize Trust�.