@markobrien
#SomeBooksILove - a book that is still a kind of talisman to me from childhood is "Danny the Champion of the World". It reached me in a really special way, when the world didn't make sense.

In the spirit of @markobrien on #SomeBooksILove — I’m currently reading and mesmerised by the collapsing and expanding worlds, tropes, models of history/fiction, and tongue-in-cheek panache of Orhan Pamuk’s Nights of Plague. #AmReading

@markobrien I love this #SomeBooksILove! I find favourites lists so restricting! I enjoyed Donal Ryan’s Strange Flowers a lot when I read it last year. Quoting myself writing back then about it, ‘It made me a little tearful and it evoked “home” in a way rarely imaginable’.

Donal Ryan’s All we shall know, is my favourite of his novels. Pulls you right into its world.
#SomeBooksILove #Books #Ireland 🧵/18

This book from Dr Rosaleen McDonagh is a must read. It’s use of language is glorious and it moved me to tears. #SomeBooksILove #Books 🧵/17

All of Liz Nugent’s books are expertly drawn and pack a punch, but this is my current favourite. #SomeBooksILove #Books 🧵/16

Frankie Gaffney’s Dublin Seven captures the essence of its context in a way few others of similar works have. Authentic and chilling #SomeBooksILove #Ireland #dublin 🧵/15

This collection of short stories by Aidan Matthews is still as crackling alive as it was the first time I read it #SomeBooksILove #books 🧵/

Beckett’s plays are superb but his prose is every bit as good. This brought me on a journey that got under my skin. #SomeBooksILove #Books #Beckett 🧵/13

Beckett’s plays are superb but his prose is every bit as good. This brought me on a journey that got under my skin. #SomeBooksILove #Books #Beckett 🧵/13

Toni Morrison’s Beloved blew me away in college but her Song of Solomon deeply moved me in a different way after. A phenomenal book #SomeBooksILove #Books 🧵/12

So much work has sprung from the trauma of our recent past. But this from John Boyne is complex, angry and very moving #ireland #SomeBooksILove #Books 🧵/11

I revisted this recently and it is such a profoundly gentle read. A design for life by #WinnieThePooh that works. #SomeBooksILove #Books #PoohBear 🧵/10

I revisted this recently and it is such a profoundly gentle read. A design for life by #WinnieThePooh that works. #SomeBooksILove #Books #PoohBear 🧵/10

One of John McGahern’s earlier work. I love his writing. Love this book. #SomeBooksILove #Books #Ireland 🧵/9

Leonard Cohen. Not only his songs and his poetry but his prose writing skills make words sound like music as well #SomeBooksILove #Books 🧵/ 8

A great influence on my thinking around the art form (with music) that has shaped my life. The first edition copy one of my prized possessions with a foreword by Peter Brook #SomeBooksILove #Books #Theatre 🧵/7

Will never forget reading Brian Keenan’s book through the night many years ago. Visceral, eerie and moving #SomeBooksILove #Books 🧵/6

This short book from Colm Tóibin captures a moment in time in Ireland. The links between land, heart, violence and place. #SomeBooksILove 🧵 /5 #books #ireland #border #troubles

#SomeBooksILove Vikram Seth is a magical writer. Love of music and Love in general treated with precision and care. Scene on the top of a double decker is exquisite #Books 🧵/4