The mighty Mark Brady of Cillian Press at LBF 2013
LONDON BOOK FAIR
Cillian Press are off to the London Book Fair at Earls Court. See you there!
Take Any Shape
In the morning there were sky-larks flying high and out of sight, releasing trills and spirals of silver notes into the blue air. Jack left early; from the back bedroom window I watched the Mercedes as he eased it up the lane between parked cars and wheely-bins, exhausts bubbling. At the junction with the main road he paused, an indicator …
ROLL UP
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HAY FESTIVAL 2013
FLIRTING AT THE FUNERAL AT HAY 2013: THE FULL PROGRAMME IS NOW ONLINE
GORT ALERT
THE FORGE AT GORT FESTIVAL, GORT, CO. GALWAY MARCH 29-30TH 2013 FRIDAY MARCH 29TH – OPENING, GALLERY CAFÉ GORT: 5. 30pm – 6.30pm All welcome. SATURDAY MARCH 30TH – Poetry Masterclass with FRED JOHNSTON: Sullivan’s Royal Hotel, The Square, Gort. 11 am – 1pm €5/€3 Talk and Discussion on George Moore: Gort Public Library, 2pm. Given by Conor Montague. Conor …
Hay Festival 2013
HAY FESTIVAL, HAY-ON-WYE, JUNE 2nd 2013 Memories of revolution Chris Keil and Julian Preece in conversation with New Welsh Review editor Gwen Davies. As markets collapse and bankers gorge themselves on bonuses, Chris Keil and Julian Preece look back to the 1970s, when revolution seemed about to change the world. Chris Keil’s latest novel Flirting at the Funeral …
Flirting at the Funeral at Gort Festival
?”The unpurged images of day recede;the Emperor’s drunken soldiery are abed.”Flirting at the Funeral and Cillian Press are going to Gort Festival!!
Flirting News
Storming review of “Flirting at the Funeral” in the latest New Welsh Review – NWR99 – OUT TODAY! “Keil writes beautifully…” Thank you very much! Hay Festival. Hay-on-Wye, June 2nd 2013: Chris Keil, author of “Flirting at the Funeral” and Julian Preece – “Baader Meinhof and the Novel” – in conversation with Gwen Davies, editor New Welsh Review… EXPLOSIVE!! …
FLIRTING AT HAY-ON-WYE
I will be talking about my new novel “Flirting at the Funeral” at the Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye, on June 2nd 2013. Be there! The GLASTONBURY of literature festivals!
Memories of 2009
La Torre de Dalt I spent the last days of the summer in a literary residency at La Torre de Dalt, in Catalunya; a beautiful medieval building, a little palace of marble floors, elaborate dark mirrors and vaulted ceilings, on the first slopes of the hills above Girona. La Torre looks down on a landscape that is both benign and …
Aberystwyth Book Festival
Author Chris Keil in conversation with New Welsh Review Editor Gwen Davies at the Aberystwyth University Book Festival
Flirting at the Funeral review
“Chris Keil’s third novel, Flirting at the Funeral, opens with a disturbing image: a dead cow, floating downriver, close to the campus of a Welsh college. The second chapter sees a school teacher showing his charges around a French town, where Nazi soldiers herded people to their death – a neat verbal echo of something we’ve seen in the opening …