Cork World Book Fest
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Cork’s celebration of all that’s great about books and reading. Coming next Tues 21 - Sun 26 April 2026
big themes and emotions with skill and heart.
All Through the Night by Dani Robertson (non fiction)
Light pollution is something I’d never really thought about and this book is an eye-opener. A serious topic, but the writing is sublime; personal, relatable, funny and hopeful."
All Through the Night by Dani Robertson (non fiction)
Light pollution is something I’d never really thought about and this book is an eye-opener. A serious topic, but the writing is sublime; personal, relatable, funny and hopeful."
August 26, 2025 at 3:48 PM
big themes and emotions with skill and heart.
All Through the Night by Dani Robertson (non fiction)
Light pollution is something I’d never really thought about and this book is an eye-opener. A serious topic, but the writing is sublime; personal, relatable, funny and hopeful."
All Through the Night by Dani Robertson (non fiction)
Light pollution is something I’d never really thought about and this book is an eye-opener. A serious topic, but the writing is sublime; personal, relatable, funny and hopeful."
characters and pin-sharp humour - these stories expose human complexity in all its dark and devastating entirety, with warmth and honesty.
Songs for Ghosts by Clara Kumagai (novel, YA)
Longing, love and heartbreak, inspired by Puccini's Madame Butterfly - this complex and captivating story tackles
Songs for Ghosts by Clara Kumagai (novel, YA)
Longing, love and heartbreak, inspired by Puccini's Madame Butterfly - this complex and captivating story tackles
August 26, 2025 at 3:48 PM
characters and pin-sharp humour - these stories expose human complexity in all its dark and devastating entirety, with warmth and honesty.
Songs for Ghosts by Clara Kumagai (novel, YA)
Longing, love and heartbreak, inspired by Puccini's Madame Butterfly - this complex and captivating story tackles
Songs for Ghosts by Clara Kumagai (novel, YA)
Longing, love and heartbreak, inspired by Puccini's Madame Butterfly - this complex and captivating story tackles
longlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Children's Fiction.
"I always read three books at once; a novel, a collection of short stories, and something non-fiction. It allows me to match my mood! My current reads are:
In the Movie of Her Life by Claire Hennessy (short stories)
I’m loving the edgy
"I always read three books at once; a novel, a collection of short stories, and something non-fiction. It allows me to match my mood! My current reads are:
In the Movie of Her Life by Claire Hennessy (short stories)
I’m loving the edgy
August 26, 2025 at 3:48 PM
longlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Children's Fiction.
"I always read three books at once; a novel, a collection of short stories, and something non-fiction. It allows me to match my mood! My current reads are:
In the Movie of Her Life by Claire Hennessy (short stories)
I’m loving the edgy
"I always read three books at once; a novel, a collection of short stories, and something non-fiction. It allows me to match my mood! My current reads are:
In the Movie of Her Life by Claire Hennessy (short stories)
I’m loving the edgy
Read 2016) The Book of Shadows (shortlisted Irish Literacy Association/Irish Book Awards) and The Book of Revenge. Elizabeth lives in West Cork where she fishes, grows her own veg and goes on plenty of outdoor adventures. Her latest novel, Arabella Pepper - The Wild Detective, has just been
August 26, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Read 2016) The Book of Shadows (shortlisted Irish Literacy Association/Irish Book Awards) and The Book of Revenge. Elizabeth lives in West Cork where she fishes, grows her own veg and goes on plenty of outdoor adventures. Her latest novel, Arabella Pepper - The Wild Detective, has just been
confirms a special gift and presence in Irish poetry before reaching its wise conclusion: ‘There is so much to know, / so much I want you to hear.’
August 21, 2025 at 7:24 PM
confirms a special gift and presence in Irish poetry before reaching its wise conclusion: ‘There is so much to know, / so much I want you to hear.’
Boyfriend Over My Head’ and ‘Why We Don’t Have Kids’ it reaches to the Guggenheim Museum in Venice and considerations of art. There’s a constant sense of the aftermath of illness and the poems never shy from physical and emotional vulnerability. Brave in its honesty and directness, Chic to be Sad
August 21, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Boyfriend Over My Head’ and ‘Why We Don’t Have Kids’ it reaches to the Guggenheim Museum in Venice and considerations of art. There’s a constant sense of the aftermath of illness and the poems never shy from physical and emotional vulnerability. Brave in its honesty and directness, Chic to be Sad
weekend’) and striking detail, rest in ordinary settings — an ‘Online Staff Meeting’, an Aldi car park in Youghal.
Framed between work that centres on a fire in her family home this book displays an even wider range than her debut — from ‘My Brother’s Friends Draw Dicks’, ‘The Mechanic Speaks to My
Framed between work that centres on a fire in her family home this book displays an even wider range than her debut — from ‘My Brother’s Friends Draw Dicks’, ‘The Mechanic Speaks to My
August 21, 2025 at 7:24 PM
weekend’) and striking detail, rest in ordinary settings — an ‘Online Staff Meeting’, an Aldi car park in Youghal.
Framed between work that centres on a fire in her family home this book displays an even wider range than her debut — from ‘My Brother’s Friends Draw Dicks’, ‘The Mechanic Speaks to My
Framed between work that centres on a fire in her family home this book displays an even wider range than her debut — from ‘My Brother’s Friends Draw Dicks’, ‘The Mechanic Speaks to My
Vultures, touched readers and listeners in uncommon ways. Reviewing it in Poetry Ireland’s Trumpet Annie Brown wrote that it ‘feels like a friend’. Chic to be Sad continues a young woman’s report from the front lines of experience. These fearless poems, rich in simile (a smile ‘wide / as a long
August 21, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Vultures, touched readers and listeners in uncommon ways. Reviewing it in Poetry Ireland’s Trumpet Annie Brown wrote that it ‘feels like a friend’. Chic to be Sad continues a young woman’s report from the front lines of experience. These fearless poems, rich in simile (a smile ‘wide / as a long
pitch-perfect detail.
This is poetry that makes the reader feel seen, known, and less alone. Chic to Be Sad doesn’t just capture what it means to live in a broken world, it dares to name the splinters and sing through them."
About the book:
Molly Twomey’s first collection, Raised Among
This is poetry that makes the reader feel seen, known, and less alone. Chic to Be Sad doesn’t just capture what it means to live in a broken world, it dares to name the splinters and sing through them."
About the book:
Molly Twomey’s first collection, Raised Among
August 21, 2025 at 7:24 PM
pitch-perfect detail.
This is poetry that makes the reader feel seen, known, and less alone. Chic to Be Sad doesn’t just capture what it means to live in a broken world, it dares to name the splinters and sing through them."
About the book:
Molly Twomey’s first collection, Raised Among
This is poetry that makes the reader feel seen, known, and less alone. Chic to Be Sad doesn’t just capture what it means to live in a broken world, it dares to name the splinters and sing through them."
About the book:
Molly Twomey’s first collection, Raised Among
a kettlebell into her own jaw or pulling salvage from a burnt childhood home, Twomey refuses sentimentality in favour of something harder won: truth. Her lines crackle with wit and clarity, confronting shame, self-sabotage, and systems that fail the vulnerable, and all with astonishing grace and
August 21, 2025 at 7:24 PM
a kettlebell into her own jaw or pulling salvage from a burnt childhood home, Twomey refuses sentimentality in favour of something harder won: truth. Her lines crackle with wit and clarity, confronting shame, self-sabotage, and systems that fail the vulnerable, and all with astonishing grace and
recovery, and survival. In poems as sharp as scalpels and tender as touch, Twomey excavates the pain and absurdity of living with depression, eating disorders, economic precarity, and generational trauma, all while painting unforgettable portraits of girlhood, family, and love.
Whether swinging
Whether swinging
August 21, 2025 at 7:24 PM
recovery, and survival. In poems as sharp as scalpels and tender as touch, Twomey excavates the pain and absurdity of living with depression, eating disorders, economic precarity, and generational trauma, all while painting unforgettable portraits of girlhood, family, and love.
Whether swinging
Whether swinging
She is an Irish writer, graduate of UCC, and lives in Cork with her family. Lauren was part of our Art of the Chapbook event along with Rafael Mendes and Jordan McCarthy.
"Chic to Be Sad is Molly Twomey’s ferocious, funny, and unflinching second collection. It is an astonishing anatomy of distress,
"Chic to Be Sad is Molly Twomey’s ferocious, funny, and unflinching second collection. It is an astonishing anatomy of distress,
August 21, 2025 at 7:24 PM
She is an Irish writer, graduate of UCC, and lives in Cork with her family. Lauren was part of our Art of the Chapbook event along with Rafael Mendes and Jordan McCarthy.
"Chic to Be Sad is Molly Twomey’s ferocious, funny, and unflinching second collection. It is an astonishing anatomy of distress,
"Chic to Be Sad is Molly Twomey’s ferocious, funny, and unflinching second collection. It is an astonishing anatomy of distress,
allowing its characters to shine & express in action what the depths of their souls harbour.
August 19, 2025 at 7:41 AM
allowing its characters to shine & express in action what the depths of their souls harbour.
tragedy be avoided?
Rippling across time like the river that runs through it, Selva Almada’s latest novel is the finest expression yet of her compelling style & singular vision of rural Argentina. This masterful novel reveals once again Selva Almada's unique voice & extraordinary sensitivity,
Rippling across time like the river that runs through it, Selva Almada’s latest novel is the finest expression yet of her compelling style & singular vision of rural Argentina. This masterful novel reveals once again Selva Almada's unique voice & extraordinary sensitivity,
August 19, 2025 at 7:41 AM
tragedy be avoided?
Rippling across time like the river that runs through it, Selva Almada’s latest novel is the finest expression yet of her compelling style & singular vision of rural Argentina. This masterful novel reveals once again Selva Almada's unique voice & extraordinary sensitivity,
Rippling across time like the river that runs through it, Selva Almada’s latest novel is the finest expression yet of her compelling style & singular vision of rural Argentina. This masterful novel reveals once again Selva Almada's unique voice & extraordinary sensitivity,
they drink & cook & talk & dance, & try to overcome the ghosts of their past. But they are outsiders, & this intimate, peculiar moment also puts them at odds with the inhabitants of this watery universe, both human & otherwise. The forest presses close, & violence seems inevitable, but can another
August 19, 2025 at 7:41 AM
they drink & cook & talk & dance, & try to overcome the ghosts of their past. But they are outsiders, & this intimate, peculiar moment also puts them at odds with the inhabitants of this watery universe, both human & otherwise. The forest presses close, & violence seems inevitable, but can another
singular storyteller, in complete control, her unique voice rendered brilliantly by translator Annie McDermott."
About the book:
Three men go out fishing, returning to a favourite spot on the river despite their memories of a terrible accident there years earlier. As a long, sultry day passes,
About the book:
Three men go out fishing, returning to a favourite spot on the river despite their memories of a terrible accident there years earlier. As a long, sultry day passes,
August 19, 2025 at 7:41 AM
singular storyteller, in complete control, her unique voice rendered brilliantly by translator Annie McDermott."
About the book:
Three men go out fishing, returning to a favourite spot on the river despite their memories of a terrible accident there years earlier. As a long, sultry day passes,
About the book:
Three men go out fishing, returning to a favourite spot on the river despite their memories of a terrible accident there years earlier. As a long, sultry day passes,
the far-reaching legacies of violence. Stark & unsettling, sinister & haunting, Not A River unflinchingly lays out the beauty & brutality of our relationships with each other & the earth. Not a word feels out of place in this taut narrative as time warps, blurs & loops back on itself. Almada is a
August 19, 2025 at 7:41 AM
the far-reaching legacies of violence. Stark & unsettling, sinister & haunting, Not A River unflinchingly lays out the beauty & brutality of our relationships with each other & the earth. Not a word feels out of place in this taut narrative as time warps, blurs & loops back on itself. Almada is a
the Arts panel along with Jesse Jones & @alannaoffield with Sarah Harte.
"Not A River by Selva Almada
Three men set out on a fishing trip along Argentina’s Paraná river to a place darkly alive with the ghosts of the past in this masterful novel that reckons with masculinity, guilt, grief, memory &
"Not A River by Selva Almada
Three men set out on a fishing trip along Argentina’s Paraná river to a place darkly alive with the ghosts of the past in this masterful novel that reckons with masculinity, guilt, grief, memory &
August 19, 2025 at 7:41 AM
the Arts panel along with Jesse Jones & @alannaoffield with Sarah Harte.
"Not A River by Selva Almada
Three men set out on a fishing trip along Argentina’s Paraná river to a place darkly alive with the ghosts of the past in this masterful novel that reckons with masculinity, guilt, grief, memory &
"Not A River by Selva Almada
Three men set out on a fishing trip along Argentina’s Paraná river to a place darkly alive with the ghosts of the past in this masterful novel that reckons with masculinity, guilt, grief, memory &
of the Dublin Book Festival. Auguries of a Minor God, her debut poetry collection, was published with Faber & Faber in 2021. She was appointed the Rooney Writer Fellow at Trinity College Dublin in 2023, & is currently on the jury of the 2025 Dublin Literary Award. She took part in our Diversity in
August 19, 2025 at 7:41 AM
of the Dublin Book Festival. Auguries of a Minor God, her debut poetry collection, was published with Faber & Faber in 2021. She was appointed the Rooney Writer Fellow at Trinity College Dublin in 2023, & is currently on the jury of the 2025 Dublin Literary Award. She took part in our Diversity in
debates and interpretations since its publication.
August 14, 2025 at 7:41 AM
debates and interpretations since its publication.
summer beach, but definitely one to explore if the weather forces you inside."
About the book:
"Les Faux-Monnayeurs" is a novel by André Gide published in 1925 that deals with adolescence, homosexuality, literary creation and falsification. This complex and experimental work has given rise to many
About the book:
"Les Faux-Monnayeurs" is a novel by André Gide published in 1925 that deals with adolescence, homosexuality, literary creation and falsification. This complex and experimental work has given rise to many
August 14, 2025 at 7:41 AM
summer beach, but definitely one to explore if the weather forces you inside."
About the book:
"Les Faux-Monnayeurs" is a novel by André Gide published in 1925 that deals with adolescence, homosexuality, literary creation and falsification. This complex and experimental work has given rise to many
About the book:
"Les Faux-Monnayeurs" is a novel by André Gide published in 1925 that deals with adolescence, homosexuality, literary creation and falsification. This complex and experimental work has given rise to many