If you buy The Irish Times on Saturday in Eason's, you can purchase The Choice by Edith Eger for €4.99, a saving of €6. Read Arminta Wallace's interview with the author here.
In Saturday’s books pages, poet and novelist Martina Evans wittily traces a lifetime’s evolving love affair with books, films and television, while Hostage author Oisín Fagan explores how his outlook as a writer and a reader changed when literature became an invitation to adventure.
Our summer fiction series concludes with The Little Black by John Connell, the short story which inspired him to write his bestseller, The Cow Book.
Our reviews include Paschal Donohoe on Ctrl Alt Delete by Tom Baldwin and The Populist Temptation by Barry Eichengreen; Belinda McKeon on the Man Booker longlisted Washington Black by Esi Edugyan; Sarah Gilmartin on Future Popes of Ireland by Darragh Martin; Dean Jobb on Land of Dreams: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and the Irish in Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and Maine, 1880-1923, by Patrick Mannion; Sean Sheehan on the year’s best photography books so far; Sara Keating on the best new children’s books; and Julie Parsons on Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban.
