Cathy Brown

An Evening with Pat McCabe

Join twice-Booker-nominated author Pat McCabe as he reads Heaney and Durcan, shares his writing journey from Clones to the USA and plays an Elvis song on the guitar!

📅 Saturday 28th March
⏰ 7.30pm
🎟️ £22.50

Book here > tinyurl.com/5n8jn2kx

A huge thanks to @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social for this copy of The Lightning, the forthcoming debut novel from @jamesgwriter.bsky.social Really looking forward to reading it.

Saoirse by Charleen Hurtubise – blogtour A timely blogtour post for the beginning of 12th Reading Ireland month, hosted by Cathy at 746 Books. Although Hurtubise is American, she has lived in Ireland for 25 years, and her second novel is …

On my blog today, my review of Saoirse by Charleen Hurtubise. I enjoyed it very much annabookbel.net/saoirse-by-c...

Apparently so!

This is *quite* the cover 😳

Love these

A Beautiful Loan by Mary Costello — self-discovery steeped in literature Seeking clarity on past loves through faith and art, an Irish teacher finds unexpected resolution in Albert Camus

"A summary is limiting: it is as accurate but inadequate to say this is the story of a woman’s decades as it is to say that Mrs Dalloway is a book about a day in the life of a Londoner."

Me on Mary Costello's exceptionally good new novel A Beautiful Loan, which is "a big book in a small package".

The pinnacle, right there...

A lovely review of The Barracks by Johen McGahern for #readingirelandmonth26

Can't wait for this one Annabel, have loved all her other novels

Hosted by Cathy Brown @cathybrown746.bsky.social
March is #ReadingIrelandMonth
I plan to read 5 novels & listen to 2 audiobooks that are set in Ireland. Are YOU participating this year? #IrishFiction #IrishLiterature #booklovers #bookbloggers #BookSky #ReadingIrelandMonth26 #IrishAuthors

Exciting news. I’m heading across the pond for some book events. Check out these fantastic #FewAndFarBetween events in Scotland and England. All welcome.

(Nb will not be appearing at EIBF every night, thought I’m not, in essence, opposed to this idea. Just waiting to confirm the date)

Pigott Poetry Prize rises to €20,000 - Books Ireland Listowel Writers' Week announce Pigott Poetry Prize of €20,000.

Listowel Writers’ Week announce Pigott Poetry Prize of €20,000
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Here’s the longlist for the 2026 International Booker Prize. image © India Hobson for Booker Prize Foundation Today, the Booker Foundation announced the 2026 longlist for the International Booker Prize, which recognizes international literature in translatio…

Today, the Booker Foundation announced the 2026 longlist for the International Booker Prize.

Gaby Wood · At the Movies: ‘The Secret Agent’ Like Walter Salles’s I’m Still Here, which had a similarly successful run last year, The Secret Agent is set during...

‘A large part of what’s great about 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘵 𝘈𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘵 is Wagner Moura, who inhabits his role with the naturalism of a documentary subject and the charisma of a star. He plays two roles, the second of which I won’t reveal.’

Gaby Wood at the movies.

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Hen’s Teeth – Iron & Wine – Album Review Hen’s Teeth – Iron & Wine – Album Review by Cathy Brown There’s something quietly companionable about Hen’s Teeth, the eighth studio album from Iron & Wine, aka Sam Beam. Drawn …

I reviewed Hen's Teeth, the new album from Iron & Wine for No More Workhorse!

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"I'm just here to chew bubblegum and kick ass." Loved this.

She's so good!

Small Prophets in the style of the old Sea Monkeys advert

Just looking through some old comics and found a mail order advert for Small Prophets

I saw it in the cinema with Stella and it was a lot of fun.
Very daft but fun. And Rachel McAdams was fantastic.

Song Sung Blue and Send Help have been my two favourites so far this year.

Weekend reading and it is very good

@lilliputpress.bsky.social

Crossroads: #JapaneseLitChallenge19 WordPress Free Photo Library. Goodnight Tokyo by Atsuhiro Yoshida. Oyasumi, Tōkyō (2018) translated by Haydn Trowell. Europa Editions, 2025. “Tokyo was considerably smaller than one might thi…

Review of 'Goodnight Tokyo' by #AtsuhiroYoshida ('Oyasumi, Tōkyō', 2018). #ReadIndies wp.me/sezD85-tky

Books to Look Out For in March 2026: Part Two - A Life in Books Book reviews, snippets of book news, and alerts about books outside the glare of the publicity spotlight.

Books to Look Out For in March 2026: Part Two alifeinbooks.co.uk/2026/02/book...

Mackenzie Crook makes very lovely television. Small Prophets is an absolute treat...

Fuck your ChatGPT, if I want to see a caricature of myself I will make the effort to go to the seaside and pay £15 for a cruel man to give me body dysmorphia like we’ve always done.

Cormac McCarthy’s Valentine’s Day Candy Hearts Taken from works of the late great Cormac McCarthy. - - -

"Everywhere the dying groan and the horses lay screaming... Happy Valentine's Day!"https://buff.ly/g1Qx3JM

Congratulations!

Same...

Harold & Maude YouTube video by lerepertoire

Best fourth wall break ever.
RIP Bud Cort.

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