Pauline McLynn
FATHER FUGURE
James Lee Burke’s latest, Pegasus Descending, sees Dave Robicheaux dealing with the death of a bar buddy. It is the summer of Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans will never be the same. No one can match Burke for cracking plots and prose. A treat for anyone, even if they think they don’t like crime books.”
Pauline McLynn, Mrs Doyle in Father Ted appears at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on August 23.
Nicholas Evans
UNDIVIDED ATTENTION
The Zanzibar Chest by Aidan Hartley is an intimate memoir of reporting Africa’s bloodiest warzones and a quest into the fate of his father’s best friend. A profound love of the continent and its people shines through even the most harrowing episodes. Vivid, tender and heartbreaking, there are scenes that will haunt me for ever.”
The Divide by Nicholas Evans is published by Time Warner.