Jean Grainger is a USA Today bestselling author from Cork. She dominates the Amazon bestsellers list for Irish Historical fiction and has recently forayed into contemporary mystery. Her first book, […]
Amy Cronin is a bestselling author who lives by the sea near Kinsale with her husband and young children, where she writes, drinks too much coffee and contemplates learning to swim. Amy is a fan of thrillers and crime novels, and her love of suspense and plot-twists flows into her writing. Amy’s debut novel Blinding […]
Attention all Quizzers Come join our General Knowledg table quiz at The Lord Kingsale, Friday March 24 at 8pm Led by our Quiz Master, Grainne McGuinness Cost: €40 per table […]
Come and join us for an evening of readings curated by poet Matthew Geden. We will be showcasing work by new and established writers. This will be a relaxed and […]
The wonderful Alice Taylor needs no introduction and we are so pleased to be welcoming her to Kinsale to chat about her decades of writing on rural Ireland. Who better […]
Local author Jerome Lordan presents a kind of visual genealogy and social history of the Old Head of Kinsale and the southern extremity of Courcey Country, from farming, seafaring and […]
Donal Ryan, from Tipperary, is the author of six novels and a short story collection. He has won several awards for his fiction, including the European Union Prize for Literature, the Guardian First Book Award and four Irish Book Awards, and has been shortlisted for several more. He was nominated for the Booker Prize in […]
Jenny will read stories from a selection of the most popular books for our younger audience. Suitable for tots and younger children. Please note the ALL children attending this event MUST be accompanied by an adult and we have a policy of no photography at children’s events.
In this introductory bookbinding workshop, you will learn how to make your own A5 stab-bound book, a binding method developed in 17th century Japan that is still used throughout the […]
Hilary Mantel was a renowned English writer who twice won the Booker Prize, for her best-selling novel Wolf Hall and its sequel, Bring Up the Bodies. The final novel of the Wolf Hall trilogy, The Mirror & the Light, debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and won worldwide critical acclaim. Mantel […]
Elaine Feeney writes poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. Her debut novel As You Were won Dalkey Book Festival’s Emerging Writer Prize, the Kate O’ Brien Award, and the Society of Authors’ Mc Kitterick Prize. Her second novel How to Build a Boat was published in 2023 and has been longlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize. A […]