John Kelly and Paul Lynch

Pavilion Theatre, Saturday, September 13th @ 2.30 pm

John Kelly is one of Ireland’s most popular broadcasters, but he is also a fine writer whose new novel, Out of the City, begins with a President of the United States assassinated during a state dinner in his honour. The official account has already taken hold but a hawk-eyed octogenarian named Monk, believing that there’s nothing that cannot be known, has a version of his own. Crackling with wit and invention, the novel is a dark and twisted tale of the watcher and the watched.

Paul Lynch is an exciting new talent in Irish literary fiction. Donal Ryan has hailed his writing as ‘Vivid, unsettling, intensely enjoyable, wrought with care and obvious love’. In The Black Snow, Lynch takes the pastoral novel and with the calmest of hands tears it apart. With beautiful, haunting prose, Lynch illuminates what it means to be alive during crisis, and puts to the test our deepest certainties about humankind.

Both writers will be in conversation with Peter Murphy at Mountains to Sea. Peter Murphy has published two critically acclaimed novels with Faber. His journalism has been featured in Rolling Stone, The Irish Times, The Guardian and Hot Press.

Venue: Pavilion Theatre @ 2.30pm, Saturday, September 13th. BOOK NOW

 This event is supported by Books Ireland