On Monday's Programme: Jane Gardam's new book Last Friends reviewed, Rebecca Solnit on her new collection The Faraway Nearby, & the classic movie is Jurassic Park.
New Planet Cabaret – On Tuesday 4th December Arena, together with New Island Press, launched the first ever on-air creative writing course. The course is aimed at anyone who would like to improve their writing skills or even write creatively for the first time. The course will last six months. At the conclusion we will publish a collection which will include the best submissions from our listeners along with contributions from writers who regularly appear on the programme. The collection will be called New Planet Cabaret. It will be published by New Island Press and edited by writer and lecturer ...
Eibhear Walshe reviews Theo Dorgan's 'Making Way' which is about an aging music executive and a young irish woman who meet in Sicily. The Publishers are New Island.