Alex Clark is a journalist and broadcaster, often seen in the pages of the Guardian, the Observer and the TLS, and heard on BBC R4 programmes such as Front Row and Open Book. An experienced chair of live events, she has worked as an artistic director at the Bath Festival and is a Patron of the Cambridge Literary Festival. She has … Read More

Fintan O’Toole is one of the foremost social and political commentators of his generation, a columnist with The Irish Times, and advising editor of the New York Review of Books. His most recent book We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Ireland since 1958 was named as Book of the Year in Ireland and as one of the ten best … Read More

Colm Tóibín was born in Enniscorthy in 1955. He is the author of 11 novels including The Master, Brooklyn, The Testament of Mary, Nora Webster, House of Names and The Magician. His work has been shortlisted for The Booker Prize three times, has won the Costa Novel Award and the IMPAC Award. He has also published many works of non-fiction, … Read More

Elizabeth Strout is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Tell Me Everything, Lucy by the Sea; Oh William!; Olive, Again; Anything Is Possible, winner of the Story Prize; My Name Is Lucy Barton; The Burgess Boys; Olive Kitteridge, winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Abide with Me; and Amy and Isabelle, winner of the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum … Read More

Anne Enright is the author of eight novels, two books of short stories and three selections of essays, most recently Attention. First Laureate for Irish Fiction, winner of the Booker Prize her most recent awards and honours include the Writers’ Prize for Fiction (2024) The Seamus Heaney Award for Arts and Letters (2025) and The Windham Campbell Prize (2025). Enright … Read More

Bruce Robinson is the director and screenwriter of Withnail and I, How to Get Ahead in Advertising, Jennifer 8 and The Rum Diary. He has also written the screenplays for The Killing Fields, Shadow Makers, Return to Paradise and In Dreams. He is the author of The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman and Paranoia in the Launderette, and They All … Read More