News
On 4 November, ROOM won W. H. Smith Paperback of the Year Award (one of the Galaxy National Book Awards); six programmes about the awards will be screened on More4 between 13 November and 17 December. In Canada it has just been honoured with the Forest of Reading Evergreen Award, and it has made it onto the longlist of the International Impac Dublin Literary Award, being nominated by more libraries (20) than any other title.
I’m happy to announce that THE SEALED LETTER has been published in the UK and Ireland in a beautiful blood-red cover by Picador, and has been getting great reviews. It’s been chosen for Radio 2’s Book Club (a live interview followed by a web chat on 14 November, see http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/simon-mayo/book-club).
HarperCollins in the US has brought out a lovely new version of my second novel HOOD, with new introductory materials and a Q&A:
INSEPARABLE: DESIRE BETWEEN WOMEN IN LITERATURE
is now out in paperback from Cleis Press:
As well as all the foreign editions of ROOM, there will soon be a French version of STIR-FRY, and both SLAMMERKIN and LANDING are forthcoming in German, and SLAMMERKIN in Chinese.
Also, all my publications since 2000 are now available as e-books.
In Autumn 2012, Picador, HarperCollins Canada and Little Brown will be publishing my next work of fiction, a sequence of stories about travel (from the seventeenth century to the twentieth) called ASTRAY.
For the academic year (until July 2012) my family and I are lucky enough to be living in Nice, France. I am working on a play about Maeve Brennan at the NEW YORKER in the 1950s (to premiere in Dublin in Autumn 2012) as well as a novel about a murder in San Francisco in 1876.