Leading UK Authors for Ennis Book Club Festival
Media Release
26th January 2012
This year’s Ennis Book Club Festival line-up includes two influential English novelists who will discuss their writing in the Co. Clare town from 2nd – 4th March. Lynne Reid Banks is a bestselling author for children and adults. Her first novel, The L-Shaped Room, was published in 1960 and caused outrage in more conservative quarters for its portrayal of a an unmarried mother-to-be who is thrown out by her father and has to live in the L-shaped room of the title. The novel was later adapted for cinema by the legendary Bryan Forbes and brought great critical acclaim.
Patrick Gale, from a new generation of prolific British novelists, has written fourteen novels, including the bestselling Rough Music and Notes from an Exhibition. His fourteenth novel, A Perfectly Good Man will be published in March coinciding with the Ennis Festival. Mr Gale will read from his new novel on Friday 2nd March when the Ennis Book Club Festival is officially opened by the distinguished poet, playwright and broadcaster Vincent Woods.
Lynne Reid Banks and Irish author Kevin Barry will give public interviews at a major event in Glór theatre on Saturday 3rd March. Short story writer and novelist Kevin Barry was awarded the 2007 Rooney Prize for Literature and shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards for his book City of Bohane. Ms Banks will talk about a long and hugely successful writing career including her classic children’s novel The Indian in the Cupboard which has sold nearly six million copies worldwide.
“This is our 6th Book Club Festival which is organised in association with Ennis Town Council and Clare Co Library,” said Festival Chairperson Ciana Campbell. “What started from small beginnings has grown steadily into a nationally recognised event attracting book club members and readers from all over the country. This year’s list of writers and poets is our most varied yet and we are particularly pleased to have attracted names like Lynne Reid Banks and Patrick Gale from across the water.”
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