Rebecca Carter

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RCL author Ferdia Lennon wins the 2025 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, which celebrates an outstanding body of work by an emerging Irish writer under 40! rebeccacarterliterary.com/news/ferdia-le…

👨‍🎓🏛️ Warmest congratulations to UCD College of Arts & Humanities graduate Ferdia Lennon, who has been announced as the recipient of the 2025 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Ferdia, who holds a BA in History and Classics from University College Dublin and an MA in Prose Fiction from the University of East Anglia, has won the award for his debut novel, Glorious Exploits, set in 412 BC, which tells the story of how a group of captured Athenian soldiers go about staging one of Euripides’ greatest tragedies. The €10,000 Rooney Prize, awarded annually since 1976, celebrates an outstanding body of work by an emerging Irish writer under 40 years of age. It is administered by the Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre for Creative Writing in the School of English, Trinity. Other recipients of the Rooney Prize include fellow UCD graduates Neil Jordan (1981), Ronan Sheehan (1984), Frank McGuinness (1985), Paul Mercier (1986), Gerard Fanning (1993), Philip Ó Ceallaigh (2006), Kevin Power (2009), Colin Barrett (2016), and Niamh Campbell (2021). It also includes Anne Enright (1991), Professor of Creative Writing at the UCD School of English, Drama and Film.

Olivia Laing's THE SILVER BOOK and Charlie Porter's NOVA SCOTIA HOUSE on Blackwell's and Foyles ‘Books of the Year’ shortlists rebeccacarterliterary.com/news/olivia-la…

‘How to measure the planet’s heartbeat’ introduces themes of new RCL client Yadvinder Malhi’s debut book VIBRANT EARTH rebeccacarterliterary.com/news/ted-talk-…

For our Fall 2025 issue, writers Charlie Porter and Hilton Als discuss fashion month memories and Porter's new novel, Nova Scotia House. interviewmagazine.com/culture/charli…

Join Ali Dawson and her time-travelling cold case team for another thrilling mystery... THE KILLING TIME by @ellygriffiths is coming February 2026! Check out that cover 😍 Now available to pre-order, with signed copies available: geni.us/TheKillingTime

In addition to this very interesting podcast episode, Terry has some events coming up! Imperial War Museum | 25 September iwm.org.uk/events/my-iwm-… Lucky Hare Books | 9 October eventbrite.com/e/believable-l… Ilkley Literature Festival | 18 October ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk/events/58-char…

Today's bonus @wehavewayspod Patreon episode with @terrystiastny is the story of the Political Warfare Executive: black, grey, white propaganda - the relationship between the British government's messaging strategy, disinformation and the truth. patreon.com/wehaveways?utm…

A brilliant review of Olivia Laing's THE SILVER BOOK by @KirkusReviews! kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/o…

In Olivia’s words, ‘The Silver Book is a novel in love with cinema’ - and therefore it makes perfect sense for it to be launched with a series of three events at the Barbican Centre, Cinema 1. rebeccacarterliterary.com/news/the-silve…

We're coming up to halfway through the Edinburgh International Book Festival (9 to 24 August) and it's a good moment to catch up with what's been going on for RCL authors and what's to come! Read on the RCL website: rebeccacarterliterary.com/news/rcl-autho…

UK Kindle edition of HOW TO SAVE THE AMAZON is cheap today!

The loveliest bit of the train journey to #TheakstonsCrime so far has been bumping into the Reverend Penny Stephens, who was a student on my inaugural @FaberAcademy Writing Crime course, and receiving a gifted copy of her debut novel, which is published today! Congrats, Penny.

More on the RCL website: rebeccacarterliterary.com/news/happy-pub…

Nell Stevens' The Original was launched in the UK (by @ScribnerUK) on 19 June, and in the US (by @wwnorton) on 1 July. The UK launch was accompanied by a very special ‘in conversation’ between Nell and Olivia Laing at the LRB Bookshop.

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Can’t wait to listen to @RebeccaStott64’s new radio series BEAUTIFUL STRANGENESS on Monday. Five personal essays that explore how closely the mysterious and the magical are woven into the ordinary and the everyday.

Declares interest: this book also features my grandparents and my grandfather Ralph's run in with Randolph Churchill. PLUS! Evenly Waugh sending off his manuscript of Brideshead Revisited in the post when setting off for the Balkans.

The blurred lines of the BBC, Foreign Office, Fleet Street, SO1, SOE, Bruce Lockhart, Richard Crossman, Sefton Delmer, Brendan Bracken, Hugh Dalton et al... where politics & propaganda met, the Political Warfare Executive. A must read for this part of the war effort. @WeHaveWaysPod