One of Ireland’s great authors, the award-winning Donal Ryan, will be at Kennys Bookshop for an event on Friday, August 9, when he will join Tomás Kenny in conversation about his new novel, Heart, Be at Peace which is published that week.
The event will take place at 6pm and tickets are free, but are limited, so booking is advised.
Donal Ryan is the author of The Spinning Heart, From a Low and Quiet Sea and The Queen of Dirt Island among others. His work has been published in over twenty languages to major critical acclaim. The Spinning Heart won the Guardian First Book Award, the EU Prize for Literature (Ireland ), Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards, and was voted ‘The Irish Book of the Decade’.
Heart, Be at Peace is set in a small town in rural Ireland where the local people have weathered the storms of economic collapse and are looking towards the future. The jobs are back, the dramas of the past seemingly lulled, and although the town bears the marks of its history, new stories are unfolding. It reunites us with the characters from The Spinning Heart ten years on, but can also be read independently.
Kennys are also running an exclusive Signed, Limited Edition of Heart, Be at Peace. The book is already available to pre-order on kennys.ie and copies will be available to purchase in the bookshop on the night. The Limited Edition is signed and numbered by Donal Ryan, contains an exclusive short story by the author not in any other edition and has a bespoke cover.
Tickets for this event are free but are limited, so booking is advised. Tickets can be booked on www.kennys.ie/events or by contacting Kennys Bookshop on 091-709350 or [email protected].
