Martin Doyle
Writer at Book Club Newsletter (Irish Times)
Books Editor, The Irish Times; author of Dirty Linen (Merrion Press); ex-extra, Father Ted https://t.co/7OhD7njQ2D
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irishtimes.com | Martin Doyle
Tell us about your new novel, Eat the Ones You LoveEat the Ones You Love is a story about two women who work in a flower shop in a fictionalised Dublin shopping centre, and an orchid, who watches them with bad intentions. It’s about hunger, desire and working for minimum wage. You quit writing after feeling burnt-out and trained as a florist only to be thwarted by the pandemic. How did you return to writing? I came back gradually.
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irishtimes.com | Martin Doyle
In The Irish Times tomorrow, Orlaine McDonald tells Mia Levitin about her award-winning debut novel. Anna Carey has researched and compiled the perfect summer reading list for you. And there is a Q&A with Sarah Maria Griffin about her new YA novel.
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irishtimes.com | Martin Doyle
Tell us about your new book, Wanda Broom, illustrated by Fay AustinAll Wanda wants is to be an ordinary girl. Which is not easy when your mother is a witch. When Wanda, her mother and her granny are forced to move after yet another spell goes wrong, Wanda is determined to blend in and not attract attention. Then, the world wide web of witches and warlocks informs Esmerelda that she has to undergo an assessment to determine whether she is fit to remain a witch.
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irishtimes.com | Martin Doyle
In The Irish Times this Saturday, Elaine Feeney tells Laura Slattery about her latest novel, Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way. Stephen O’Neill reflects on the 50th anniversary of Seamus Heaney’s landmark collection, North, in advance of a big conference in Queen’s University Belfast. Hazel Gaynor, author of Before Dorothy, her imagining of the backstory of Aunt Em in The Wizard of Oz, reflects on the importance of aunts.
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irishtimes.com | Martin Doyle
Niall Williams has won the 2025 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award, worth €20,000, for Time of the Child at a ceremony on the opening night of the Listowel Literary Festival in Co Kerry. This year’s adjudicators, authors Carol Drinkwater and Paul McVeigh, reviewed more than 50 submitted novels before selecting the winner from a powerful shortlist that included Christine Dwyer Hickey, Joseph O’Connor, Colm Tóibín and Donal Ryan. “Judging the prize this year was no small task,” McVeigh said.
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