Irish Crime Writing at Mountains To Sea 

by Declan Burke

http://crimealwayspays.blogspot.ie/

The Mountains to Sea literary festival takes place this weekend 

from Thurday 11th Sept to Sunday 14th of September, and as 

always it's something of a smorgasbord. I'm delighted to see that 

there's a very strong Irish crime writing presence lined up, 

three of whom are debutants. 

Lee Child , interviewed by the inimitable Declan Hughes, leads the charge. 

Lee, who claims his Irishness under a variation on FIFA’s ‘grandparent rule’, 

will also have a short story in the BELFAST NOIR (Akashic Books) anthology

later this year.

Elsewhere, the line-up includes Sinead Crowley (CAN ANYBODY HELP ME?),

Karen Perry (THE BOY THAT NEVER WAS), Liz Nugent (UNRAVELLING OLIVER) and Jane Casey (THE KILL). In addition to her appearance

at the festival, Jane Casey will also host a writing workshop. 

For all the details on the Mountains to Sea programme, and how to book tickets, clickety-click here …

Interview with author Lee Child 

about JACK REACHER and Tom 

Cruise's height!!

Jessica Mazo interviews bestselling author Lee Child, who writes the Jack Reacher Novels, at ThrillerFest in NYC. They discuss what it's like to get your books turned into films, and how he feels about Tom Cruise!

Get your tickets now to see LEE CHILD at Mountains to Sea 2014 on 14th Sept at 4.30 in the Pavilion Theatre. http://www.mountainstosea.ie/2014-Events/lee-child.html

LEE CHILD
Jack gets personal with rogue sniper

Myles McWeeney on the latest Reacher novel from Lee Child, already lined up for a Tom Cruise movie

Personal is the latest story in the highly successful series of adventures penned by British-born author Lee Child about Jack Reacher, a former hard man in the US Military Police who, by his own choice, became a rootless drifter roaming America righting wrongs and dispensing his own frequently lethal form of justice. 

In this story he is in Seattle when the army reaches out to him. An expert sniper has a shot at the French president and the army brass suspects the shooter could be a former American Special Operations operative called John Kott. Reacher and Kott have history, because 16 years ago Reacher had tracked him down and put him in prison after he had committed a rather messy murder. The army wants him to do that all over again.

Reacher is sent across the Atlantic in the company of a young female CIA operative called Casey Nice, first to France to assess the scene of the unsuccessful assassination attempt, and then to London, where a G8 Summit is due to be held which will be attended by the President of the United States.

The US military are convinced Kott is targeting a head of state at the G8 Summit, but Reacher has come to realise that Kott is actually seeking revenge for the 15 years he has spent in prison and that he himself is the real target. Reacher discovers that Kott is in the employ of Little Joey, a vicious London crime lord, and to flush him out into the open he must penetrate the crime boss's secure base.

Packed with arcane and fascinating detail about the mechanics of sniping and a whole range of other subjects, Child's almost trademarked and seriously addictive clipped prose and dialogue keeps Personal clipping along at breakneck pace with the tension ratcheting up satisfactorily to the inevitably bloody conclusion

- See more at: http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/jack-gets-personal-with-rogue-sniper-30524134.html#sthash.Kxhgt1xu.dpuf

Book your tickets now for Lee Child in conversation with Declan Hughes, on Sunday Sept 14th @ 4.30pm  http://www.mountainstosea.ie/2014-Events/lee-child.html

http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/jack-gets-personal-with-rogue-sniper-30524134.html

An Afternoon with Lee Child! By Will Ryan 

Just bought my tickets to the Lee Child event at this years Mountains to Sea dlr Book festival!(About ten seconds after I received the marketing email!). I'm a huge Lee Child fan and it was picking up a copy of Echo Burning that brought me back to reading fiction after years away reading nothing but books on Quantum physics!

Lee Child Author of the Jack Reacher Series

Back when I was writing The Harder They Fall I listened to a lot of his interviews and in a sense it was his assertion that a book has to grow organically from its writer that allowed me to take my book in the directions it needed to go. There were times when I knew I wasn't following the "rules" of writing thrillers but to stick to what other people said was right would have damaged what I saw as the necessary arc for the story and the characters.

Really looking forward to the opportunity to hear him speak in person and maybe get a chance for a quick chat!

The rest of the festival programme is available here and includes lots of writing workshops for all genres. For those of you also into crime/thriller writing the workshops with Jane Casey are definitely worth a look.

The above post is by Will Ryan and was posted on his blog: http://willryanthrillers.blogspot.ie/ . Thanks Will for allowing us to repost. 

Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival 11-14th September 2014

Online Booking now open for

Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival

11-14th September 2014

 

Fine Writing      Fiction      Poetry      Workshops      AND Picnics!! 

Martin Amis / Lynn Barber / John Boyne / Lee Child / Eoin Colfer / Anthony Cronin / Sinéad Crowley / Vona Groarke / John Kelly / Paul Lynch / David Mitchell / Sinéad Morrissey / David Park / Don Paterson / Kamila Shamsie

These are a selection of authors appearing in the brilliant line up at this year’s Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival incorporating the dlr Poetry Now International Poetry Festival.

Bert Wright, the primary curator of this year’s festival writes,
‘Book Festivals remind us that words emanate from a specific human source, a consciousness, an intellect that is right there in front of us. We see and hear them not through a digital scrim but up close and personal and both parties are immeasurably enriched in the process’.

The 1st event will be a special pre-festival reading & public interview with Martin Amis on Wednesday 27th August. The festival weekend includes over 40 events running over 3 nights.

Friday 12th September includes poetry from Vona Groarke & Don Paterson as well as a cabaret event with dlr Writer in Residence Colm Keegan; Murderous Maths with Kjartan Poskitt; a teenage Dylan Thomas-themed workshop (including a visit to THE POETRY SHED) and a stellar reading with John Boyne and Man Booker Prize Longlisted David Mitchell.

Saturday 12th September has workshops on poetry with Don Paterson and on writing with Jane Casey, Anna Carey & Patrick Freyne plus Irish songs and film clips with students from TG Lurgan. Readings include John Kelly & Paul Lynch; Kamila Shamsie & Xiaolu Guo and a public interview with Lynn Barber. Family events include THE DAHL FACTOR, a superhero comic session with illustrator Alan Nolan AND the magical Great Teddy Bear Library Sleepover on Saturday night. THE IRISH TIMES POETRY NOW AWARD will also be presented that day and poet Michael Symmons Roberts makes his Irish debut shortly afterwards. Saturday’s finale event will be the LETTERS LIVE event in the Pavilion theatre where an array of actors, authors and musicians, will be reading ‘correspondence deserving of a wider audience’.

Workshops on Sunday 14th September include fiction with Mia Gallagher, a Haiku-writing walk with Anatoly Kudryavitsky and a masterclass on illustration with picture book artist Yasmeen Ismail. For the family, there’s a Where’s Wally Library Hunt; 2 Picture Book Picnics and a fun double Laureate event with Eoin Colfer & Aneirín Karadog. The SHINE/STRONG POETRY AWARD READING takes place, David Park & Sinéad Morrisey chat about poetry and it’s a big night for Crime Fiction fans! Liz Nugent, Jane Casey, Karen Perry, Sinéad Crowley & Lee Child will all be reading and TV fans get to meet screenwriters Jed Mercurio and Michael Hirst! For music and poetry fans, we round up a perfect weekend with Anthony Cronin reading his epic RMS Titanic poem with a thrilling music score, specially created and performed by Donal Lunny.