Taking Time Out for Reading this Christmas?
Our director, Eimear, was on The Arts House on Cork’s 96FM and C103FM on Sunday 15 December chatting about books published this year that she would recommend as Christmas presents. Here’s a list of all the books she mentioned. She could have gone on much longer and mentioned ten times as many books, but hopefully you’ll find something here that you like.
Click on the links in the text to find out more about each book. And pop along to your local bookshop – we’re sure they’ll be able to sort all your Christmas present needs.
You can listen to Eimear’s interview on the podcast here.
Short Stories
Boulevard Wren and Other Stories by Blindboy Boatclub
Essays & Memoir
Constellations by Sinead Gleeson
Make It Scream, Make It Burn by Leslie Jamison
Poetry
The Narrow Land by Christine Dwyer Hickey
Olive Again by Elizabeth Strout
The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy
Once Twice Three Times An Aisling by Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen
Leonard and Hungry Paul by Ronan Hession
Novels
Sportswriting
Crime
Young Adult & Children’s
Anthologies
Something In The Water by Kieran McCarthy
She Can! illustrated by Chris Judge
The Painter On His Bike by Enda Wyley
The Gravity Wave by Peter Sirr
If All The World And Love Were Young by Stephen Sexton
The Rain Barrell by Frank Ormsby
Darkest Truth by Catherine Kirwan
Rewind by Catherine Ryan Howard
The Lammisters by Declan Burke
Perfectly Preventable Deaths by Deirdre Sullivan
Flying Tips For Flightless Birds by Kelly McCaughrain
She Can! illustrated by Chris Judge
How Will Santa Find Us? by Shane O’Brien and Stephen Rogers
Winter Papers – Kevin Barry & Olivia Smith
Correspondences edited by Stephen Rea and Jessica Traynor
