Book News

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  Dublin bookshop apologises after antisemitic book that inspired Nazi propaganda appears on shelf

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  An interesting mix of politics and culture at this year’s Kennedy Summer School

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  Paul Whitington

  Bias or bellyaches: Do claims of unfairness against bestsellers lists stack up? What the numbers say

• Obituary: Joan Brady, ballet dancer turned novelist who won the Whitbread in 1993 for ‘Theory of War’

  

• People & Culture Magazine

  Any writers fancy a working retreat at the prettiest edge of the world?

  

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  In Yan Ge’s Elsewhere, ‘almost every story is a reverberating silent scream for home’

  

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  Revisiting Sligo’s Dermot Healy: Listening for absence in monumental sounds of silence

  

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  Novelist Andrea Mara: ‘Throw some kidnappers in, raise the stakes – it’s much easier than worrying about your kids in creche’

  

• Ross O’Carroll-Kelly D4 satire book series to end after 24 years with final book release

  

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  ‘Curating isn’t just about big names, though an email from Tom Hanks is quite exciting’

  

• Obituary: Alice Munro, Nobel Prize-winning Canadian writer widely recognised as master of the modern short story

  

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  Author John Boyne takes swipe at critics over Holocaust novel

  

• Amy Donohoe

  Romanian novel ‘Solenoid’ wins €100,000 Dublin Literary Award

• ‘I feel elated,’ says Irish author Clara Kumagai on her ‘dream’ Children’s Book of the Year win

• Ryan Tubridy

  ‘I was really afraid I’d be mute and friendless’ – Marian Keyes tells Ryan Tubridy of her fear of giving up alcohol

• People & Culture Magazine

  ‘I think books speak to where you’re at in your life and that’s always changing’

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  Joseph O’Connor shortlisted for new award while ­Ireland’s largest monetary prize for a poetry collection beckons

• JK Rowling now plans her novels on colour-coded spreadsheets on laptop

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  Lucy Caldwell: ‘I love the comfort of a generational saga – they take me back to family holidays driving through Ireland’

• Niamh Horan

  Former Eason chairman leaves more than €7m in his will

• Paul Auster, screenwriter and novelist best known for The New York Trilogy, dies aged 77

• Ryan Tubridy

  Ryan Tubridy launches new podcast ‘The Bookshelf’ with children’s author David Walliams as first guest

• Salman Rushdie says he had a dream about being attacked

• People & Culture Magazine

  The Cow Book’s John Connell: ‘Climate change is one of the great questions, but the future of farming is another’

• Babar the Elephant author Laurent de Brunhoff dies aged 98

• ‘Hogwarts Express’ train made famous by Harry Potter cancelled as health and safety goes off the rails

• People & Culture Magazine

  Writing a gripping thriller is child’s play for debut author Clara Dillon

• Agatha Christie expert tells BBC to stop messing with beloved writer’s crime plots

• Prince Harry’s memoir Spare double-nominated for book of the year prizes

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  Louise Nealon's ‘Snowflake’ is featured in One Dublin One Book

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  Mary Costello: ‘Norman Finkelstein – the son of Jewish Holocaust survivors – has paid a price for speaking uncomfortable truths’

• Sally Rooney

  ‘A story of familial and romantic intimacies’ – Sally Rooney announces new book set for release this year