Literary Table Quiz 6

Further information from Charlie Byrne's

Rónán Ó Snodaigh Reading Saturday September 27th 6.00 pm.

A founding member of Kíla, Rónán is an accomplished poet along with being a musician. He has written poetry in both Irish & English and found that the rhythm of the words helped form his percussive, chant like singing style. Rónán is recognized for his unique technique of playing the Bodhrán, which has often been likened to Africa’s talking drums and the Indian tablas. In addition to Kíla, Ó Snodaigh has played and recorded with the group Dead Can Dance

2003 saw the long awaited publication of Rónán's first book, Luscadán a stunning collection of Irish poems and songs and was followed in 2004 by his English book ‘Songs’.



For more information on the Spirit of Voice festival: http://spiritofvoice.com/calendar.asp

Literary Classics

 

We have recently received a shipment of classic titles in English literature. This is just a short list of some of the novels:

Kipling, The Jungle Book
Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot
Tolstoy, War and Peace
Austen, Emma, Sense & Sensibility, Mansfield Park
Melville, Moby Dick
Cervantes, Don Quixote
James, Turn of the Screw

   

Galway Culture Night, Friday 19th September

Galway’s first ever ‘Culture Night’ is to take place on Friday 19th September in a number of locations all over the city . Inspired by the success of the Dublin Culture Night over the past two years, organisers have decided to extend the programme to Cork, Waterford, Limerick and Galway. Galway’s rich cultural fabric along with cultural institutions throughout the city will be showcased by hosting a series of programmes of events and displays on the evening of Friday, 19th September, admission to many which will be completely free.

Charlie Byrne's bookshop hosts the standing army of western writers in Culture Night, inviting to the microphone any and all locally based writers whose fiction, non-fiction, and poetry were transformed into books within the last year. The event is co-ordinated by Michael O'Loughlin, Galway's writer in residence.

Refreshments will be served. Admission is free. From 6.00 pm until some later time!



For more details about other events happening as part of Culture Night, go to: http://galwayculturenight.com/

 
  
   

Man Booker Prize Shortlist

The Man Booker Prize 2008 shortlist is announced today (Tuesday 9 September).  Two first-time novelists, Aravind Adiga and Steve Toltz, survived the cull of the longlist from thirteen novels to just six. Previous winners of the Booker Prize, John Berger and Salman Rushdie,  failed to make this year's shortlist and Sebastian Barry is the only novelist shortlisted for this year's prize to have been previously shortlisted (in 2005). 

Linda Grant, winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2000 and longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2002, is the only female author to make the shortlist of six. She is joined by Philip Hensher, longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2002 and a Booker judge in 2001, and the widely-acclaimed Indian writer Amitav Ghosh. 

The Man Booker Prize 2008 shortlisted novels are:

Aravind Adiga The White Tiger  (Atlantic)                             
Sebastian Barry The Secret Scripture (Faber and Faber)                        
Amitav Ghosh Sea of Poppies (John Murray)                                  
Linda Grant The Clothes on their Backs (Virago)             
Philip Hensher The Northern Clemency  (Fourth Estate)                    
Steve Toltz A Fraction of the Whole  (Hamish Hamilton)

This year's judging panel is chaired by Michael Portillo former MP and Cabinet Minister. He is joined by Alex Clark, editor of Granta; Louise Doughty, novelist; James Heneage, founder of Ottakar's bookshops and Hardeep Singh Kohli, TV and radio broadcaster.

Juliet Bressan book launch

Join us on September 18th at 6pm for the launch of Juliet Bressan's new novel, Snow White Turtle Doves.

It is a contemporary love story set to the backdrop of the implications of the Iraq war. It is June 2004, and Ireland is preparing for the visit of George W Bush. Beautiful, tempestuous Isabella is struggling to hold onto Harry, while his passion for world politics pulls him away from her and into the antiwar protest movement. Sinead is a doctor whose experience of Baghdad during the first gulf war has changed her life. Moved by the letters she receives from Moussa, a surgeon in Iraq, Sinead joins the protest against the Bush visit to Shannon. But her campaign against the war quickly turns into a campaign of love for Harry. After a night of passion with Sinead, Harry fails to come home, Isabella makes her final decision and walks out on him, flying straight to New York without even saying goodbye. Will life ever be the same again?



Juliet Bressan studied medicine at Galway University and travelled extensively during her student years, working in America and Australia. She is well known in the medical community as a satirical columnist for the award winning newspaper Medicine Weekly. As a medical journalist Juliet Bressan has contributed widely to Television and Radio broadcasting in Ireland, as well as in France, the UK and the US. She is currently a script advisor to RTE's television series The Clinic. She lives in Dublin and is married with two daughters, Molly and Jessica.

Over the Edge New Writer of the Year Competition

Celeste Augé to judge 2008 Over The Edge New Writer of the Year competition

 

John Healy's The Grass Arena reissued as a Penguin Modern Classic

Booker Long List & Frank O'Connor Short Story Award

The judges for the 2008 Man Booker Prize for Fiction have announced the longlist for this year's prize:

Aravind Adiga              The White Tiger                                 
Gaynor Arnold             Girl in a Blue Dress                           
Sebastian Barry           The Secret Scripture                         
John Berger                 From A to X                                        
Michelle de Kretser      The Lost Dog                                     
Amitav Ghosh              Sea of Poppies                                  
Linda Grant                 The Clothes on Their Backs             
Mohammed Hanif         A Case of Exploding Mangoes         
Philip Hensher             The Northern Clemency                    
Joseph O'Neill              Netherland                                        
Salman Rushdie          The Enchantress of Florence           
Tom Rob Smith            Child 44                          
Steve Toltz                   A Fraction of the Whole

        

Julian Gough at Charlie's, August 5th, 6pm

 

Gough was born in London. He grew up in Ireland. He lives in Berlin. And he writes novels.

 

While studying philosophy at university in Galway, he began singing with the underground, and very literary, rock band Toasted Heretic. They played London, Paris and New York, released four albums, and had a top ten hit in Ireland in 1991 with “ Galway and Los Angeles”, a song about not kissing Sinead O’Connor.

 

Gough’s first novel, Juno & Juliet was published in 2001. Set in Galway, it stars identical twin sisters in their first year away from home, and is about Life! Love! Literature! His second novel, Jude, stars an orphan with two penises, and is about everything else. It's a rather unusual novel, and is being published in a rather unusual way, starting with Jude: Level 1. Levels 2 and 3 will follow in 2008 and 2009, before all three levels of Jude are published in a handsome hardback some time in the glorious future.

 

 

You can visit Julian's web page here:

http://www.juliangough.com/

 

And you can visit Julian's publishers, Old Street, here:

http://www.oldstreetpublishing.co.uk/BOOKPAGES/JUDE.htm

Thousands of Titles For 1 Euro Each

Charlie Byrne's On Line

Pauline Bewick Book Signing

19th July 2008 at 2pm

     

 

Cúirt International Festival of Literature 2008

Sebastian Barry, Rachel Cusk, Jennifer Johnston, Moya Cannon, Samantha Power, Asne Seierstad, Breyten Breytenbach, David Harsent, William Henry, Seamus Martin, Donald Hall, Sean Og de Paor, and many more ...