Radio Solent

If you live anywhere around the Hampshire area, you might like to tune in to a radio interview I’ll be doing on BBC Radio Solent between 2:00 and 2:30 pm to talk about THE HOUSE OF SPECIAL PU.RPOSE. The interview takes place on the Charlie Crocker show. Radio Solent can be found on 96.1 FM / 103.8 FM

Sundays with Norris Interview

One of my former university lectures, Senator David Norris, interviewed me on his Sunday morning programme on Newstalk. Back when I was a student in Trinity College in the early ’90s, David taught me ‘The Novel’ on my English Literature course, which is a nice coincidence since I ended up as a novelist. A couple of years ago he also presented me with the prize when I won the Bisto Book of the Year Award for THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS.

You can listen to the podcast of the programme by clicking here.

Attentive readers might wonder how I did this when I was in Aberdeen on Sunday morning. We recorded it a couple of weeks ago.

Simon Mayo Show

I’m in the UK for the rest of the week on the promotional trail for THE HOUSE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE and what a pleasant change it makes to be talking about Russia, the fall of the Tsars and the time I spent writing the novel in St Petersburg rather than Bruno’s naivite and whether or not I liked the film! Having spent the morning doing book signings around London – and if you’re interested, signed copies of the new novel are available from Foyle’s on Charing Cross Road, Hatchard’s in Piccadilly, Goldsboro Books and Waterstone’s Piccadilly (who also have signed stock of THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS) – I went to BBC Television Centre to record some interviews for regional BBC stations and then on to Radio 5 Live to the Simon Mayo Show where the book was being reviewed.

Since my first novel, THE THIEF OF TIME, was published 9 years ago, I’ve had the pleasure or pain of reading reviews of my books in the papers but Simon Mayo’s show takes a different approach – three reviewers discuss the merits of the book (or lack thereof) right in front of you. I did the show once before – for BOY – and again today where, thankfully, THE HOUSE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE received very generous reviews from the assembled critics. It was nice to meet American crime author Michael Connelly too, whose book THE SCARECROW was also very well received. You can listen to the podcast of the show here.

On tomorrow to the Lincoln Book Festival.

Radio Show

I was a guest on Ryan Tubridy’s radio show on RTE Radio 1 this morning to talk about THE HOUSE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE. You can listen back to it here. The interview kicks in around the 34 minute mark.