Crescent Arts with Miss Emily

Cathy McNally will interview me this Thursday at Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast, about Miss Emily. I will also read from the book and sign copies. Let your Belfast mates know! Bookings here.

Cathy's blog, 746 Books - Confessions of a Book Buying Addict is well worth a peruse. See here.

SPIRIT OF FOLK FESTIVAL, MISS EMILY GIVEAWAY etc.

I feel I am talking to the wall here but, as I use the blog as a class of archive for myself, on I go. There's lots happening this week (is there ever not?!).

I can't attend the Culture Night 'Make Them Visible' event in Dublin for Oxfam which features a new flash fiction of mine but, if you're in Dublin, you might like to go. Oxfam Books, Parliament Street, 6.30pm. More here.

The reason I can't go is that I will be in a field in Meath. This field. I am taking part in the Spirit of Folk Festival on Saturday with the Irish Times Book Club. Reading from Miss Emily and chatting to the truly lovely Mr Gary Quinn. We'll be on the Hall of Heroes stage at 5pm. The sun is meant to shine this weekend so hopefully it'll be a mud-free zone.

On Sunday I head to the Molly Keane House in Ardmore, Co. Waterford, to teach an all-day novel writing class. (Booked out). Molly's is a beautiful house and I'm delighted to be back there again.

Meanwhile Cathy McNally gave Miss Emily a great review on her blog. It's here. And she is giving away a copy of the book too.

INTERVIEW and *YOU* REVIEW - READING IRELAND MONTH

For Reading Ireland month, self-confessed book-buying addict and Antrim-based Arts Officer Cathy McNally, interviewed me on her 746 Books blog here. We talk about novel writing (including Miss Emily) and women's place in the literary world.

Today she has a heart-warming review of my first novel YOU on her blog: 'The reader is left to deduce what our narrator often cannot understand and the apparent simplicity of the narrative style belies a moving poignancy and understated intimacy.' The full review is here.

Míle buíochas, Cathy :)