This weekend’s Eason book offer when you purchase a copy of The Irish Times is €7 off the cover price of Last Stories by William Trevor, now just €4.99. It’s been a good week for writers from the North. Wasn’t he the poet we singled out back in March in our “Best of Irish: 10 rising stars of Irish writing” feature for St Patrick’s Day? Moving now to the east, congratulations also to Omani author Jokha Alharthi, winner of the Man Booker International Prize for Celestial Bodies. In Saturday’s Irish Times books pages, Declan Kiberd reflects on Samuel Beckett as a very Irish yet very European writer.

Source: The Irish Times May 23, 2019 15:00 UTC