SINÉAD GLEESON: HAGSTONE
Presented by verb wellington

14 May 2024, 6pm - 7pm

We’re absolutely delighted to welcome back Irish no. 1 bestselling author, Sinéad Gleeson!

Sinéad is one of Ireland's most beloved literary voices. Her essay collection Constellations: Reflections from Life won Non-Fiction Book of the Year at 2019 Irish Book Awards and the Dalkey Literary Award. Join Sinéad for a discussion on her much anticipated first novel Hagstone with the brilliant Noelle McCarthy. There will be book sales and signings afterwards, thanks to our friends at Unity Books.

Hagstone is a beautifully written, prescient and eerily haunting fiction debut that takes in the darker side of human nature and the mysteries of faith and the natural world.

’Startling, engrossing, darkly playful’ Roddy Doyle

‘I read Hagstone with with a feeling of ease and awe. Packed with the most incredible, sensuous nature writing; I felt I was living and breathing on that island’ June Caldwell

‘Wild, elemental and brimming with ideas and intelligence, Hagstone feels both ancient and very modern. I adored it’. Louise Kennedy, author of Trespasses.

Sinéad Gleeson’s essay collection Constellations: Reflections from Life was published by Picador in 2019 and won Non-Fiction Book of the Year at 2019 Irish Book Awards and the Dalkey Literary Award for Emerging Writer. It was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and Michael Deon Prize. She is editor of The Long Gaze Back: An Anthology of Irish Women Writers (named for a line from Maeve Brennan, which includes a story by Brennan), The Glass Shore: Short Stories by Women Writers from the North of Ireland and The Art of the Glimpse: 100 Irish Short Stories. Sinéad also collaborates with artist and musicians, with commissions from The Wellcome Collection, BBC, Frieze and various galleries. In 2022, with Kim Gordon, she co-edited This Woman’s Work: Essays on Music, published by White Rabbit Books. Hagstone is her first novel.

Presented in partnership with Auckland Writers Festival, WORD Christchurch and HarperCollins New Zealand. Supported by Culture Ireland.

PHOTO CREDIT: Bríd O'Donovan

General Admission: $26 Concession: $23
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