RTE Arena Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Rachel JoyceRTE ArenaOn @RTEArena tonight 📻 *⃣Film reviews Tara & Paul - Ann // Little Richard: I am everything // The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry *⃣Vanessa Fielding & Catherine Joyce discuss the new setting of the Tennessee Williams The Rose Tattoo *⃣Ukrainian poet, Victoria Melkovska
Paperback, 2013
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Hereafter: The Telling Life of Ellen O'Hara
Vona GroarkeRTE ArenaComing up at 7PM @RTERadio1 #PaulMescal & director Charlotte Wells on their new film @aftersunmovie Vona Groarke on her newly published collection Hereafter @NYUpress @nora877 on the latest from @CartoonSaloon My Father’s Dragon 1899, epic multi-language mystery-horror https://t.co/xPLaM6GpDt
Hardcover, 2022
$22.95$11.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Lavinia Fontana: Trailblazer, Rule Breaker
Aoife BradyRTE ArenaHere are some of the images by Lavinia Fontana which were discussed on the programme last night. The exhibition "Lavinia Fontana: Trailblazer, Rule Breaker", curated by Dr Aoife Brady, runs from 6th May until 27th August 2023 @NGIreland https://t.co/bi6P2n1ZEE
Hardcover, 2023
$45.00$22.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Amusement: An Original Screenplay
Michael B. DruxmanRTE Arena7pm @RTEArena 📘The Amusements by @missflannery 2023 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award 📽️@HanrattyDave & @deirdremolumby review new film releases 🎼Soprano Anna Devin at @Westcorkmusic 📷A Century of Style: Fashion Photography from the National Portrait Gallery https://t.co/mRQM3WL85I
Paperback, 2014
$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Oh William!
Elizabeth StroutRTE ArenaDelighted to welcome the Pulitzer Prize-Winning author Elizabeth Strout @LizStrout on the return of Lucy Barton in Oh William! @PenguinIEBooks on @RTEArena on @RTERadio1 https://t.co/uDiNLpdBJ6
Paperback, 2022
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Great Expectations
Charles DickensRTE ArenaComing up @RTEArena this evening from 7pm: 📘Dublin: A Writer’s City by Chris Morash 🎼Irish Baroque Orchestra’s Peter Whelan @IrishBaroque 📺A new adaptation of Dickens' Great Expectations for the BBC #GreatExpectations https://t.co/QfDmxm8g71
Paperback, 2013
$26.95$13.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Marina Carr: Pastures of the Unknown
Melissa SihraRTE ArenaTonight from 7pm with @SeanRadioRocks Marina Carr & @RigakiE discussing 'Old Ghosts', opening this week @MoLI_Museum Oscar nominated Laura Poitras chats about All the Beauty in the World #OscarNoms #academyawards2023 And Don Paterson on his memoir Toy Fight's @RTERadio1
Hardcover, 2018
$89.99$64.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
The Latecomer
Jean Hanff KorelitzRTE ArenaOn the programme from 7pm: 📽️We review new films with @Creagh_Fish & @HanrattyDave 📘The Latecomer by @JeanHanffKoreli 🎼@doireannnighlac on @TradTG4 series #Ceolaireacht @RTERadio1 with @SeanRadioRocks https://t.co/esn2PSGGPj
Paperback, 2023
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
King
Pat KinevaneRTE ArenaTonight on Arena @RTERadio1 🎭King, a new play by Pat Kinevane and directed by Jim Culleton @Fishamble 🎼Jazz singer @CTobinSinger on her new album Returning Weather 📽️Mincéir, a new doc on the traditions and culture of Irish Travellers @DublinFilmFest 📺Fleishman is in Trouble https://t.co/MvqchknhF0
Paperback, 2023
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Shehan KarunatilakaRTE ArenaBooker Prize winner @ShehanKaru, author of The Seven Moons of Maali Almedia, a satire set against the backdrop of Sri Lanka’s Civil War. Composer @John__McLachlan marking Leland Bardwell’s centenary @modelsligo New albums by @Aoife_N_Frances, @marywallopers, @babyface https://t.co/AFEfXNJWFp
Paperback, 2022
$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book