SOURCE: IRISHTIMES
A preview of Saturday’s books pages and a round-up of the latest literary news
This Saturday’s reviews in The Irish Times are Patricia Fitzpatrick on Pandemonium by Jack Horgan Jones and Hugh O’Connell; Paul Murray on Model Citizens by Daniel Shand; Martina Evans on new poetry collections by John Kelly and Denise Saul, plus two anthologies, My Name Suspended in the Air: Leland Bardwell at 100 and The Heavy Bear Who Goes with Me, 100 classic poems chosen by Neil Astley and Brendan Kennelly; Oliver Farry on Has China Won? by Kishore Mahbubani; John Self on I, John Kennedy Toole by Jodee Blanco and Kent Carroll; Sean Duke on Suzie Sheehy’s The Matter of Everything: Twelve Experiments That Changed Our World; Anna Carey on Idol by Louise O’Neill; Siobhan Kane on I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys by Miranda Seymour; Declan Kiberd on CLR James: A Life Beyond Boundaries by John L Williams; Mihir Bose on Legacy of Violence by Caroline Elkins; and Sarah Gilmartin on Spies in Canaan by David Park.
This Saturday’s Irish Times Eason offer is The Perfect Lie by Jo Spain. You can buy the bestselling thriller with your paper for just €4.99, a saving of €5. Her latest, The Last to Disappear, has just been published. The author also revealed this week that she is collaborating with screenwriting partner David Logan to bring her six-book Detective Tom Reynolds series to the screen with Line of Duty creator Jed Mercurio and Jimmy Mulville as producers.
The US writer Patricia Lockwood has been awarded the £20,000 Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize for her debut novel, No One Is Talking About This (Bloomsbury), which was also shortlisted for last year’s Booker Prize and the Women’s Prize for Fiction.
Namita Gokhale, chair of judges, called it a “vital reflection on online culture today” and Lockwood a “deeply timely winner” and “the voice of a generation of new writers who grew up under the constant pressures of real-time news and social media”.