MEdia
Reviews and interviews, plus a few lists and the odd guest column.
Times Literary Supplement review
Writing for The Times Literary Supplement, Randy Boyagoda says The Voyageur “recalls Hilary Mantel’s The Giant, O’Brien in its robust prose and unflinching presentation of the costs of being a strange human in different times.”
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Irish Examiner Interview
In The Irish Examiner, Sue Leonard asks me some questions for her Beginner's Pluck column on debut novelists.
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“VIsceral voyage into Canada's colonial heart of darkness”
In her review for The Irish Independent, Estelle Birdy examines The Voyageur’s philosophical underpinnings, calling it a “beautifully paced, moving and deeply thought-provoking read.”
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“Difficult times, Difficult people”
Writing for The Tablet, Suzi Feay describes The Voyageur’s world as one of “superstition, ghosts and spirits, with men driven mad through the forests as the memories of their evil deeds pursue them like demons,” saying the novel is “compelling, heart-rending and sparing in comfort.”
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“Vivid tale of body experiments”
In his piece for The Irish Times, Neil Hegarty describes The Voyageur as a “tremendously vivid debut novel.”
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Writer's Routine Interview
Dan Simpson has me on his podcast to talk shop about grammar, storytelling, moving from short stories to novels, and the true story behind The Voyageur.
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“An Experiment in History”
Interview spotlight on A Pair of Bookends
Podcasters extraordinaire Hannah MacDonald and Lydia Clare have me on their show to talk about violence in literature, writing bodily functions, the real people that inspired The Voyageur, and books, books, books.
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Q&A with Image Magazine
In this interview with Sarah Gill, we talk about some of the books I love, the music I listen to while I work, what my desk looks like, and how I went about writing The Voyageur.
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“Adrift on the Canadian Frontier”
In The Spectator, author Rachel Seiffert calls The Voyageur a “marvellously dark yarn.”
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“Paul Carlucci’s List of Must-read Books Set in the Wild”
Bookshop.org published a list of some of my favourite nature-themed books, from science fiction to drama.
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“Five of the best Literary Historical Novels”
In this interview with Cal Flyn from Five Books, we talk about five of my favourite works of historical fiction and explore the genre's surprising malleability.
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