A Tale Of Three Indies: Recent Episodes
A Tale Of Three Indies
3 Independent Irish Booksellers talking books. A Tale of Three Indies is brought to you by Antonia, from Antonia's Bookstore, Cian, from The Maynooth Bookshop & Dawn from Woodbine Books.
Jenny Beeken, renowned yoga instructor, joins A Tale of Three Indies to discuss her life practicing yoga and her latest book "The Nature of Breathing". This lovely book is a journey from our most basic necessity of breathing to how breathing with the right kind of awareness can be life changing. Jenny begins the journey with our early ancestors, our roots and along the way explores the anatomy of breathing, yoga postures, and the benign affect the breath has on our whole being. Interspersed with real life experiences we feel intuitively the book comes from a place of experiential understanding and truth.
A Tale of Three Indies are joined by Michelle Gallen. Michelle studied English literature at Trinity College Dublin and won several prestigious prizes as a young writer. Following a devastating brain injury in her mid-twenties, she co-founded three award-winning companies and won international recognition for digital innovation. Michelle’s first novel, Big Girl, Small Town, was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award, Newcomer of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards and the Comedy Women in Print award, the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize and the Kate O'Brien Award. Factory Girls is published on 23rd June.
Séamas O'Reilly's mother died when he was five, leaving him, his ten brothers and sisters and their beloved father in their sprawling bungalow in rural Derry. It was the 1990s; the Troubles were a background rumble (most of the time), and Séamas at that point was more preoccupied with dinosaurs, Star Wars and the actual location of heaven than the political climate. Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? is a book about a family of argumentative, loud, musical, sarcastic, grief-stricken siblings, shepherded into adulthood by a man whose foibles and reticence were matched only by his love for his children and his determination that they would flourish. It is the moving, often amusing and completely unsentimental story of a boy growing up in a family bonded by love, loss and fairly relentless mockery. In this episode A Tale of Three Indies, three of Ireland's favourite independent bookshops come together to interview Seamus about his book and much more.
In this episode the Three Indies interview actor, comedian, and writer, Ardal O'Hanlon. Ardal’s new book, Brouhaha is a razor-sharp, violent and darkly comic novel set in the fictional border town of Tullyanna.
Dove Connolly is dead. That's not good for anyone in Tullyanna, never mind Dove. Now his best friend Sharkey is home asking awkward questions about Dove's death, about the strange graphic novel he left behind, and, most of all, about Sandra. Sandra Mohan. Missing now for over a decade, whereabouts unknown. This, however, is a town dead-set on keeping its secrets. And Sharkey is already drawing attention from all the wrong quarters. A mystery, a black comedy, a satire on Ireland's tangled politics of memory, Brouhaha is set in a small town on the Irish border during the uneasy transition to peace. And peace doesn't come easy in these parts.
Brouhaha is available in all good bookshops now, but especially ours – antoniasbookstore.com, maynoothbookshop.com and woodbinebooks.ie
Emma-Jane Leeson is a force of Irish nature and A Tale of Three Indies had the pleasure of interviewing her just before she headed into what will be a very busy summer for her. Best-known as the author of the Johnny Magory series of books, Emma-Jane is the author of 12 books, including Foul Faeries, Hare Today, Gone Tomorrow and Ode to a Tomboy. She has just been appointed Kildare Library’s Reader in Residence for 2022.
Dolen Perkins-Valdez, New York Times Bestselling author, joins A Tale of Three Indies to discuss her latest book. Take My Hand is the first of her books to be published in Ireland and UK.
Inspired by true events and a landmark case in US history, the unputdownable and deeply moving story of a black nurse who makes a shocking discovery about two young girls in her care.
A Tale of Three Indies are joined by Elizabeth Boyle, accomplished historian of the medieval world to discuss her spellbinding collection of personal essays, Fierce Appetites.
Described as 'Like nothing else you will read' by Hilary Mantel
Every day a beloved father dies. Every day a lover departs. Every day a woman turns forty.
All three happening together brings a moment of reckoning.
Medieval historian Elizabeth Boyle made sense of these events the best way she knew how - by immersing herself in the literature that has been her first love and life's work for over two decades.
Fierce Appetites is the exhilarating and deeply humane result. Not only does Elizabeth Boyle write dazzling accounts of ancient stories, familiar and obscure, from Ireland and further afield, but she uses her historical learning to grapple with the raw and urgent questions she faces, questions that have bedevilled people in every age. She writes on grief, addiction, family breakdown, the complexities of motherhood, love and sex, memory, class, education, travel (and staying put) with unflinching honesty, deep compassion and occasional dark humour.
Fierce Appetites is captivating and original - as an insight into the mind and heart of a groundbreaking scholar, and as a wise and reassuring account of what it is to be human.
A Tale of Three Indies interview Olivia Fitzsimons. Olivia was an Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair Winner 2020. In the same year she was awarded an Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon Literature Bursary and a Professional Development Award for mentorship with Kit De Waal. Olivia’s debut novel, The Quiet Whispers Never Stop, was published on 14th of April
A Tale of Three Indies interview Alex Barclay. Alex writes across multiple genres—adult crime fiction, children’s fantasy, and teen fiction.
Her debut teen fiction novel, My Heart & Other Breakables, was published by HarperCollins in April 2022.
Alex also writes for screen, and is currently developing an original crime series for television. Her short stories have been featured across a range of anthologies.
A Tale of Three Indies interview author and screenwriter Damien Owens. We discuss Damien's latest novel "Duffy and Son", described by Dawn as a hug in a book. A is a funny and heartwarming novel about family ties and finding romance.
We interview Audrey Magee. Audrey’s first book, The Undertaking, was shortlisted for the 2014 Women’s Prize for Fiction, France’s Prix du Premier Roman, The Irish Book Awards Newcomer of the Year and nominated for the Dublin Literary Prize. Her second book, The Colony, was published in February.
We discuss the influence her love of French has had on her writing, the importance of place in literature and lots more about her fantastic second novel, The Colony.
A Tale of Three Indies are joined by bestselling author Sam Blake. Sam Blake herself is a character from the imagination of Vanessa Fox O’Loughlin who is the founder of the multi award winning writing resources website Writing.ie, The Inkwell Group publishing consultancy and is the founder of Murder One, Ireland’s International Crime Writing Festival. We discuss all of this as well as her latest book "Remember My Name"
Photo by Alice Rose Jordan
We're back after a brief hiatus! This time around we are talking to Eithne Shortall. Eithne is the Editor of Sunday Times (Ireland) Home magazine and her fourth book, ‘It Could Never Happen Here’ was published in February.
Their school is about to be taught a lesson...
Beverley Franklin will do whatever it takes to protect her local school's reputation.
So when a scandal involving her own daughter threatens to derail the annual school musical's appearance on national television, Beverley goes into overdrive.
But in her efforts to protect her daughter and keep the musical on track, she misses what's really going, both in her own house and in the insular Glass Lake community - with dramatic consequences.
Glass Lake primary school's reputation is about to be shattered...
A Tale of Three Indies interview Manchán Magan - travel writer, playwright, documentary maker, passionate advocate for the Irish language and author of a new children’s book, ‘Tree Dogs, Banshee Fingers and Other Irish Words for Nature’, illustrated by Steve Doogan.
A Tale of Three Indies are joined by Louise Cronje, Sponsorship Manager at An Post, to discuss another successful An Post Irish Book Awards. Despite some last minute changes the awards were a massive success.
A Tale of Three Indies are joined by award winning playwright, novelist and short story writer Lucy Caldwell. Lucy won The BBC National Short Story Award 2021 for her story “All the People Were Mean and Bad”.
A Tale of Three indies are joined by Myles Dungan, author of Four Killings, the story of Myles' family during the Irish revolutionary period and the four deaths which involved them.
Episode 6 with Nicola Pierce. Nicola’s work has taken her readers aboard the titanic, behind the walls of derry and on a arctic voyage to name just a few. Her latest book “O’Connell Street: The History and Life of Dublin’s Iconic Street” was released in September 2021 and brings its readers on a journey down Ireland’s most important street.
Episode 5 of A Tale of Three Indies. In this episode, we’re interviewing award winning bestselling author, Douglas Kennedy. We discuss his latest novel, Afraid of the Light, which was published on 8th of July to universal acclaim. More than 16 million copies of his books have been sold worldwide and his work has been translated into twenty-two languages. As you will hear he is a man that doesn’t shy away from tough topics and in this chat we cover everything from vaccination uptake, the gig economy to the philharmonic
A Tale of Three Indies interview Fíona Scarlett, author of the incredibly moving novel "Boys Don't Cry". A stunning debut novel by a immensely talented Irish writer.
A Tale of Three Indies interview bestselling debut authors Louise Nealon and Jamie O'Connell. We discuss how they became published authors as well as the story behind their bestselling novels
In Episode 2, A Tale of Three Indies joined by award winning journalist and writer Alix O'Neill. Alix's memoir "The Troubles With Us" was released in July 2021 and tells her story of growing up in Northern Ireland during the troubles. From bombs in her garden to shootings in their pub, Alix's family saw the very darkest days of the troubles but her memoir is filled with laughs and quintessentially Northern Irish humour.
In this episode, we’re catching up with one of our favourite authors, Anne Griffin. Anne’s first book, When All Is Said, was the bestselling debut novel of 2019 in Ireland. It was also Winner of the Newcomer of the Year at The Irish Book Awards 2019 and longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award 2021. Anne’s second novel, Listening Still was published in April of this year