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Brown Brick by James Lawless

Heard any good books lately?

No?

Read on.

Writer and voice artist Heber Rowan writes:

A short audiobook called ‘Brown Brick’, I narrated for Dublin author James Lawless, is now on sale and I would like to offer Broadsheet readers a number of FREE UK promotion codes…

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This is a story about an elderly man from the LGBT community in Dublin at the end of his life and a strange desire to break down a brick wall piece by piece….

Brown Brick by James Lawless (Audible)

Out now.

Contemporary Irish Documentary Theatre.

The first anthology of Irish documentary drama. Featuring six writers interrogating and commenting on crucial events of Irish history and of the diaspora.

Ellie writes:

This was published yesterday. We’d planned to have a big Dublin bash to launch it, alas it was not to be. Still, we got our first review in, and it would make great quarantine reading!

Purchase online here

Review: Contemporary Irish Documentary Theatre (British Theatre Guide)

Also non-fiction.

This afternoon.

Spotted in the window of Oxfam Ireland on Francis Street, Dublin 8.

In fairness.

Thanks Colm Cronin

Meanwhile…

Bookshelf stacker-turned-author Vivienne Kearns (left) with publisher Paula Campbell of Poolbeg Press

Last night.

Hodges Figgis, Dawson Street, Dublin 2.

The launch of The Emerald Dress by Vivienne Kearns – Set in modern day Dublin and the city in Swift’s time mixing “fashion, mystery, feminism and romance”.

Peter O’Connell writes:

It was a particularly fitting venue for Kearns, who told the packed launch: ‘I never thought when I worked at Hodges Figgis twenty years ago that I would one day be launching my novel at the store’

In fairness.

The Emerald Dress by Vivienne Kearns – read an extract (RTÉ)

Pics: Frank Courtney

Meanwhile, in non-fiction…

G’wan the Vera.