RTÉ Radio 1 Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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From a Low and Quiet Sea
Donal Ryan
On Sunday with @MiriamOCal at 10am ✨ 🐎 One of the most successful trainers of all time, Willie Mullins 🌊 Writer and director Donal Ryan & Andrew Flynn join us as they tour Ireland with the stage adaptation of 'From A Low and Quiet Sea' 🎶 Music & chat from Mark Caplice https://t.co/Ta0NjhIAFe
Paperback, 2018
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Oh William!
Elizabeth Strout
On @RTEArena with @SeanRocksARENA at 7pm ✨ ✍🏻 Poet Annemarie Ní Churreáin's new collection 'The Poison Glen' 📖 Elizabeth Strout on her new novel 'Oh William' 🎶 Stephen Kelly of the @rte_co on the Nutcracker 🎤 Jane Willow with music from her debut album 'Burn so Bright' https://t.co/SNsT5SDdR4
Paperback, 2022
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Donegal
Frank McGuinness
On Sunday’s with @MiriamOCal ✨ Donegal playwright, Frank McGuinness ahead of the premiere of his new play Dinner with Groucho A behind the scenes account of the negotiations that led to the Good Friday agreement with Irish diplomat David Donoghue https://t.co/21FU7PEx9i https://t.co/AaG54cXiHE
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Dirty Laundry: A GMA Book Club Pick
Disha Bose
If you missed Sunday with @MiriamOCal you can listen back here: https://t.co/pZfG8WCI2j ❤️ @AedinMoloney pays tribute to her father and tours Ireland with 'Molly Bloom' 📖 @dishabossy about her new novel Dirty Laundry 📷 Ireland’s answer to David Attenborough, Eoin Warner🌿 https://t.co/agojOGD8Bd
Paperback, 2024
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Beyond: How Humankind Thinks about Heaven
Catherine Wolff
On The Leap of Faith at 10pm ✨ 🌏Kevin Hargaden and Ciara Murphy from the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice share practical measures communities can undertake to tackle the environmental crisis. 📖'Beyond' is the latest book from writer and therapist Catherine Wolff. https://t.co/6KfwHWfFkn
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Old God's Time
Sebastian Barry
On @RTEArena tonight, @SeanRadioRocks will be joined by winning Irish author Sebastian Barry 📖 live from the @PavilionTheatre at 7pm🎙 The two-time winner of the Costa Book of the Year, will discuss Old God's Time, his brand-new novel about memory, love, mystery and reckoning. https://t.co/l3GtIBxOT0
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Diper Överlöde
Jeff Kinney
📖 Calling all Wimpy Kid fans 📣@RadioRayRTE will be joined shortly by Jeff Kinney, the author of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Diper Överlöde 💩 send us your voice note questions on 087 114 7899 for a chance to win a copy of the new book and tickets to his live show in November! 🙌🏼 https://t.co/vuLGt9h6jO
Hardcover, Large Print, 2022
$24.99$12.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Face
John Wood
Kathryn will be enjoying a cheese board off her own face from now on 😂👏🏼 John Hayes from Co Waterford is a master craftsman who creates bespoke wood carvings 🪚🪵 You can check out more of his work at Special Branch Carvers 🪓 @RadioRayRTE https://t.co/nQb3I8tiLj https://t.co/Lr8i7EGMlr
Paperback, 2019
$22.99$11.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Blackwater Lightship
Colm Toibin
On Sunday with @MiriamOCal at 10am ☕️ ⭐️ Colm Tóibín on the stage adaptation of his Booker prize novel The Blackwater Lightship ⭐️ Music and chat with sixth generation fiddler @ClareSandsCeol ⭐️ @deborah_somorin on the publication of her autobiography Believing in Me https://t.co/VNaBGu17Xy
Paperback, 2001
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
You Don't Know What War Is: The Diary of a Young Girl from Ukraine
Yeva Skalietska
"Soon I forgot what peace was like." Claire was joined by Ukrainian student Yeva Skalietska who spoke about her book, ‘You Don’t Know What War Is'. @TodaywithClaire https://t.co/BdoALaxkOu
Hardcover, 2022
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book