The Bord Gáis Energy Book Club on Ireland AM highlights books chosen by the cast with critic Bob Johnston. A new novel is selected for the viewers to read and discuss each month. Because of the Bookclub's wide popularity, many obscure titles have become very popular bestsellers.
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May's Book: The Great Fragola Brothers: The Twisted by Joe Prendergast
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Listowel Writers Week is in its 42nd year and joining us now to tell us more about what's on offer a

Boy Wonder
Joe Prendergast started writing at 5, bagged a dream book deal at 9 and has just published his secon

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We spoke to the book club at Tallaght Library in Dublin to find out what they thought of our book cl

Donate a library
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Book club: Strumpet City by James Plunkett
Bord Gais Energy Book Club choice for April is Strumpet City and Bob Johnston joins us now to give h

Bord Gáis Energy Book Club
Strumpet City by James Plunkett is our book club choice for April, and marks the centenary of the lo

Book club: Strumpet City by James Plunkett
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Listowel Writers' Week
Listowel Writers' Week
21.05.13 Listowel Writers Week is in its 42nd year, and once again will feature plenty of writing talent from home and abroad. Some of the newer features this year include a series of exchanges with literary events and festivals outside Ireland,...
Joe Prendergast
Joe Prendergast
07.05.13 Joe Prendergast started writing at 5, bagged a dream book deal at 9 and has just published his second book at the age of 10!   10-year-old author Joe Prendergast has just finished his second book, The Twisted. The young Dubliner...
April Winner
April Winner
29.04.13 Congratulations to James Curry from Dublin who was the winner of this month's Book Club review competition, for his review of "Strumpet City": Prose breaking into poetry, characters leaping from the page, history through the eyes of a...
Strumpet City review
Strumpet City review
16.04.13 Bob Johnston joined us to give his review of this iconic piece of Irish writing. Read his review below!Bob's review Set across seven years, from 1907 to 1914, 'Strumpet City' is an historical novel that centres on the Lockout of...
Strumpet City
Strumpet City
09.04.13   Strumpet City by James Plunkett is our book club choice for April, and marks the centenary of the lockout of trade unionists by employers in 1913, on which the book is based.   The Lockout was a pivotal event in Irish...
March Winner
March Winner
25.03.13 Congratulations to Jamie T Murphy from Co. Wexford who was the winner of the March Book Club competition, for her review of Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell.Here's Jamie's winning review..."Cloud Atlas. What? Sprawling. Mental. One story....

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Is Wuthering Heights better the second time you read it?

Yes, I got a lot more from it. No I loved it more the first time. Not sure

   
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