Literary

[blockquote_left]”…he always looks hard and fast at the violent elements in his work, and ensures that they are integral to the plot and not for titillation…” (from a “criminal conversation” with John Connolly and Paul Johnston) [/blockquote_left]

We are delighted to announce another event our ongoing series of author talks with our neighbours, the Gutter Bookshop. Join us to celebrate the launch of the twelfth Charlie Parker thriller, ‘The Wolf in Winter’. John Connolly will be joined by musicians Jonny Kearney and Lucy Farrell in what promises to be a unique and thrilling evening. There will be a book signing after the event in The Gutter Bookshop.

This event is free but ticketed. Tickets can be collected free of charge from the Smock Alley Theatre box office or The Gutter Bookshop on Cow’s Lane. Be advised that online ticket bookings are subject to a €1 administration fee.

[blockquote_right] 20th March @ 6.30pm in the Main Space [/blockquote_right]

John Connolly was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1968 and has, at various points in his life, worked as a journalist, a barman, a local government official, a waiter and a dogsbody at Harrods department store in London. He studied English in Trinity College, Dublin and journalism at Dublin City University, subsequently spending five years working as a freelance journalist for The Irish Times newspaper, to which he continues to contribute.

His first novel, Every Dead Thing, was published in 1999, and introduced the character of Charlie Parker, a former policeman hunting the killer of his wife and daughter. Dark Hollow followed in 2000. The third Parker novel, The Killing Kind, was published in 2001, with The White Road following in 2002. In 2003, John published his fifth novel—and first stand-alone book—Bad Men. In 2004, Nocturnes, a collection of novellas and short stories, was added to the list, and 2005 marked the publication of the fifth Charlie Parker novel, The Black Angel. John’s seventh novel, The Book of Lost Things, a story about fairy stories and the power that books have to shape our world and our imaginations, was published in September 2006, followed by the next Parker novel, The Unquiet, in 2007, The Reapers, in 2008 The Lovers, in 2009, and The Whisperers, the ninth Charlie Parker novel, in 2010. The tenth Charlie Parker novel, The Burning Soul, was published in 2011, to be followed later this year by The Wrath of Angels. In 2009, John published The Gates, his first novel for young adults. A sequel was published in 2011 as Hell’s Bells in the UK and The Infernals in the United States.
John Connolly is based in Dublin but divides his time between his native city and the United States, where the Charlie Parker mysteries are set.

Visit John Connoly’s site here

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