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MISS EMILY - THE BOOK ON ONE

Just a wee reminder that Miss Emily is the Book on One this week. It will broadcast each night at 11.20pm until Friday the 17th June on RTÉ Radio 1. The first podcast is already live here.

GRANTA CONVO WITH SIOBHÁN MANNION

Writer Siobhán Mannion and I are in conversation at Granta magazine today. Here.

HOWTH LITERARY FESTIVAL - pics

Adam Wyeth and myself, signing books after our eventThe festival at Howth Castle was great on Saturday. What a venue! Adam Wyeth and I had a great public conversation, in the Lutyens Library, about poetry, myth, houses, influences and all sorts of things. We had a warm welcome from Eleanor Griffin and her team, and a lovely, engaged audience. There were brownies, scones and superfood salads in the courtyard café, mmmmm. And a giant Aga to swoon over.

A few pics.



The enviable Aga TDF brownies (there's a cookery school onsite) We sampled the berry scones too :) The yard houses the National Transport Museum The castle Harebells in the grounds Eleanor Griffin with Juno Juno in the green room Me in the green room - the nicest GR ever Roses on the grounds

MISS EMILY - THE BOOK ON ONE

 
Miss Emily is the Book on One next week. It will broadcast each night at 11.20pm from Monday the 13th to Friday the 17th June on RTÉ Radio 1. I did the reading, which was a first for me (my novels YOU and The Closet of Savage Mementos were voiced by actors). Tune in on radio at FM 88.9 or online here. Huge thanks to producer Siobhán Mannion, who is also a writer of some very fine fiction.

*YOU* DRAW WINNER

My beautiful friend, writer and artist Marcella Brown, is on hand today to draw the winner of the copy of YOU. Take it away, Marcy!

And the winner is:


Melissa Cronin!!

Congrats, Melissa, and please send me your address to nuala AT nualanichonchuir DOT com. And, it seems, you and I will meet in Dingle in July. Even better :)

*YOU* GIVEAWAY

Summer has come to Ireland. Actual sun shining from an actual blue sky!! To celebrate I am giving away one copy of my first novel YOU, which is set in the summer of 1980 in Dublin. Here are what some reviewers had to say when the book came out in 2010:


 ‘...Youdeserves to find a place in our pantheon of much-admired, beautifully crafted variations on a theme.’ The Irish Times
‘...timeless, placeless and universal... a must read.’ The Irish Independent
‘...a vivid and immediate sensory experience,...Ní Chonchúir's ear – as you might expect of a poet – is alive to the language of her characters...it is about the ordinary, and the secret life that runs beneath it.’ The Sunday Business Post
‘The novel flows beautifully and is understated in tone...This gem is sure to win her further acclaim. Nuala Ní Chonchúir is a writer to watch.’ The Irish Examiner
‘You supplies a pitch-perfect voice to the estranged youngster within each of us, the result being a quietly disarming experience for the reader...It is another success from a writer who seems composed of something that literary awards like to be around... It's all done organically, the hand of the author combining with the reader's own sense of childhood nostalgia to create literary alchemy.’ Sunday Independent
'Ní Chonchúir is excellent on the shifting allegiances between children...this would not have been taken for a début.’ Sunday Tribune
If you would like to win the book, simply leave a comment AND say you would like to be in the draw. I will pick the winner from the hat on the 7th June, next Tuesday. International comp - I will post to anywhere. Good luck!

MISS EMILY - 99p/$1.45

Miss Emily is 99p on kindle in their sale! Go here. And just $1.45 here.

UPCOMING GIGS

John MacKenna and I are at Writers Week in Listowel on Friday 3rd June at 1pm, reading from our historical novels based on poets (John Clare and Emily Dickinson) and discussing historical fiction. Details here.

I am in conversation with Adam Wyeth at Howth Literary and Arts Festival on Saturday 11th June at 12 midday. We are talking myth, poetry and historical fiction. More here.

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ANNOUNCEMENT

Publishers Weekly has announced my new novel so I guess I can too :) Coming, most likely, in 2018.

May 16, 2016 - BECOMING BELLE by Nuala O'ConnorFiction: General/OtherMISS EMILY author Nuala O'Connor's new historical novel BECOMING BELLE, pitched in the spirit of FROG MUSIC meets VANITY FAIR, which follows the unlikely love affair of Victorian London's premier dancer with a wealthy young aristocrat, and the lengths his family will go to in order to prevent the match, based on the true-life romance between Isabel Bilton and Viscount Dunlo, again to Tara Singh Carlson at Putnam, and to Helen Smith at Penguin Canada, by Grainne Fox at Fletcher & Company.

STORY AT GUERNICA

My story from The Long Gaze Back anthology is featured at Guernica magazine in NY. The story was inspired by the Kate and Anna McGarrigle song 'Jacques et Gilles'. Read it here.