Books
18th: Auckland Writers Festival, New Zealand
17th: Auckland Writers Festival (with Andrew Sean Greer, Anne Kennedy & Carla Guelfenbein)
16th: Auckland Writers Festival Gala Event, New Zealand
14th: National Library of New Zealand, Wellington
13th: The Piano, Christchurch, New Zealand
11th: Otago Boys’ High School, Dunedin, New Zealand
10th: Toitū Otago Settlers Museum, Dunedin, New Zealand
10th: Otago Girls’ High School, Dunedin, New Zealand
24th: Cork Central Library
17th: Waterstone’s, Piccadilly, London
8th: Dekker v.d. Vegt, Nijmegen, Holland
8th: Euretco, Hoevelaken, Holland
6th: Franco-Irish Festival, Dublin
31st: Oxford Literary Festival
29th: Mountain to Sea Festival, Dublin (with Kate Mosse, Hannah Beckerman)
13th: UEA Literary Festival, Norwich
21st: Waterstone’s Piccadilly (with Tana French)
21st: Town Library, Buxtehuder, Germany
21st: Hodges Figgis, Dublin
17th: Dublin Books Festival (with David Park)
15th: Peacock Theatre, Dublin (with Louise O’Neill & Emilie Pine)
1st: Hodges Figgis, Dublin (with Paul Howard & Cormac Kinsella)
30th: Thornton Hall Hotel, Liverpool (with Markus Zusak)
28th: Imagine Arts Festival, Waterford (with Cecelia Ahern & Rick O’Shea)
14th: Birmingham Literature Festival (with Kit de Waal)
13th: Pontio Centre, Bangor, Wales
2nd: DLR Lexicon, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin
25th: Wigtown Books Festival, Scotland
23rd: Appledore Literary Festival
21st: Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival
16th: Bibliothèque Ideales Festival, Strasbourg (with Jon Kalman Stefansson)
15th: Besançon Festival, France
13th: L’Écume des Pages, Paris
2nd: Seamus Heaney Homeplace, Bellaghy
25th: Edinburgh Festival
9th: Hodges Figgis Bookshop, Dublin
15th: Nantucket Book Festival, USA
25th: Words Ireland, IMMA, Dublin
24th: Polari Festival, Bellobar, Dublin
23rd: International Literary Festival, Dublin (with John Banville & Claire Kilroy)
14th: Eigse Michael Hartnett, Limerick (with Edward O’Grady)
16th: LittFest, Umea, Sweden
15th: Akademibokhandeln Bookshop, Stockholm, Sweden
22nd: ICA Meeting, Rathfarnham, Dublin
16th: Lit For Life Festival, Chennai, India (with Paro Anand, Vidya Mani & Anushka Ravishankar)
15th: Lit For Life Festival, Chennai, India
14th: Lit For Life Festival, Chennai, India (with Sebastian Faulks)
1st: Parnassus Books, Nashville, TN
31st: Georgia Centre for the Book, Atlanta, GA
30th: Kramer Books, Washington, DC
29th: Quail Ridge Bookstore, Raleigh, NC
28th: Northshire Bookstore, Manchester, VT
27th: Toronto IFOA (with Vincent Lam, Frances Itani, Terri Fallis)
26th: Toronto IFOA (with Emma Donoghue)
25th: Toronto IFOA (with John Irving)
22nd: Vancouver Writers Festival (with Nathan Englander, Claire Cameron, Karen Connolly, Merilyn Simonds, Deborah Willis)
21st: Vancouver Writers Festival (with Wayne Johnston & Camille Bordas)
20th: Vancouver Writers Festival (with Sarah Dunant, Camille Bordas, Sylvain Prudhomme, Grace O’Connell & Omar El Akkad)
14th: Wells Festival of Literature
1st: Marlborough Literature Festival
30th: Jersey Festival of Words
23rd: CBI Conference Dublin (with Cecelia Ahern & Shane Hegarty)
2nd: Morges Literary Festival, Switzerland (with Emanuel Bergman)
1st: Morges Literary Festival, Switzerland (with Donal Ryan)
13th: Edinburgh Festival
10th: Farmleigh House, Dublin (with Nuala O’Connor & Mia Gallagher)
2nd: Open House Festival, Bangor
25th: John Hewitt Summer School, Armagh
16th: West Cork Literary Festival (with Sarah Moss)
7th: Bradford Literature Festival
7th: National Media Museum, Bradford
17th: Dalkey Book Festival (with Maggie O’Farrell & Joshua Jelly-Schapiro)
11th: Borris Festival, Offaly (with Edmund White & Eileen Battersby)
4th: Hay-on-Wye Festival
19th: International Literary Festival, Dublin (with Mary Dorcey, Claire Hennessy & Denis Keogh)
13th: Kníhkupectvo Martinus Bookshop, Bratislava
12th: Prague Book Festival
27th: Cuirt Festival, Galway (with Kit deWaal)
17th: Dublin Castle
24th: Mountains To Sea Festival, Dun Laoire (with Chris Cleave)
19th: Aye Write Festival, Glasgow
9th: Brussels Book Fair, Belgium
8th: The Barbican, London
6th: The Sound Cloud, Dublin (with Little Green Cars)
4th: Ennis Book Club Festival
21st: Crow Bookseller, London (with Sara Baume)
16th: Irish Institute, Liverpool
15th: Waterstone’s, York
13th: Heffers Bookshop, Cambridge
14th: Cheltenham Literature Festival (with Joseph Knox, Rachel Rhys & Belinda Bauer)
24th: Irish Writers Centre, Dublin
10th: Cork International Short Story Festival (with Sean O’Brien)
3rd: Morges Literary Festival (with Rosie Thomas, Petina Gappah & Anne Korkeakivi)
2nd: La Cote International, Aubonne, Switzerland
2nd: Casino Hotel, Salle Belle Epoque, Morges
1st: Gems Academy, Etoy, Switzerland
27th: Edinburgh Festival (with Simon Mayo)
19th: Mare di Libri Festival, Rimini, Italy
12th: Howth Literary Festival (with Hilary Fannin & Sean Moncrieff)
22nd: Sydney Writers Festival (with Chris Bowen)
20th: Sydney Writers Festival (with Leah Kaminsky & Nir Baram)
20th: Sydney Writers Festival (with Paul Muldoon & Paul Murray)
18th: Concourse Theatre, Chatswood, Sydney
17th: Riverside Theatre, Parramatta, Sydney
16th: Roslyn Packer Theatre, Sydney, Australia
14th: Auckland Writers Festival
13th: Auckland Writers Festival (with Paul Muldoon & Noelle McCarthy)
12th: Aotea Centre, Auckland, NZ
3rd: FCBG Conference, University of Wolverhampton
2nd: Pavilion Theatre, Dublin (with John Irving)
15th: Writers Abroad Conference, Butlers Townhouse, Dublin
28th: Waterstone’s Piccadilly (with SJ Naure & Kirsty Logan)
20th: University College Dublin
13th: Taddle Creek School, Toronto
1st: Antwerp Book Fair, Belgium
30th: Theoreia Bookshop, Kortrijk, Belgium
24th: Deptcon1, Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin (with Sheila O’Flanagan)
16th: Shenley Brook End School, Milton Keynes
15th: Waterstone’s Piccadilly
15th: Centre for Literacy in Primary Education, London
15th: Shrewsbury House School, Surbiton
14th: Canterbury University
2nd: Bath Children’s Literature Festival (with Andy Mulligan)
2nd: Selwood Academy, Frome.
20th: Pordenolegge Literary Festival, Italy
17th: Literaturhaus Cologne, Germany. The Gustav Heinemann Peace Prize.
24th: Edinburgh Festival
28th: Pembroke College, Cambridge
16th: West Cork Literary Festival (with Paul Murray)
6th: Boekhandel Van Piere, Eindhoven
6th: Boekhandel Dominicanen, Maastricht
5th: Boekhandel Den Boer, Baarn
5th: Boekhandel Bouwann, De Bilt
4th: Boekhandel Riemer, Groningen
4th: Boekhandel Binnert Overdiep, Heerenveen
3rd: Boekhandel Van Der Meer, Noordvijk
3rd: Boekhandel Jaspers, Badhoverdorp
27th: Hay-on-Wye Literary Festival
26th: Hay-on-Wye (with Daniel Hahn & Jenny Valentine)
23rd: Kingsmead Book Fair, Johannesburg, South Africa
21st: Love Books, Johannesburg, South Africa
17th: Church Hall, Franschhoek, South Africa (with Mandla Langa & Eshkol Nevo)
16th: Church Hall, Franschhoek, South Africa (with Sarah Waters & Damon Galgut)
15th: Allora Restaurant, Franschhoek, South Africa
15th: Congregational Church, Franschhoek, South Africa
15th: New School Hall, Franschhoek, South Africa (with Chris Bradford)
14th: Bridge Hill School, Franschhoek, South Africa
13th: Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris
11th: The Dora Keogh, Toronto (with Linden MacIntyre)
9th: Harvard Bookstore, Boston (with David Vann)
7th: Tattered Cover, Denver, Colorado
6th: Book Passage, Corte Madera, California
5th: Rakestraw Books, Danville, California
4th: Books Inc, The Castro, San Francisco
2nd: University Bookstore, Seattle
2nd: Women’s University Club, Seattle
26th: St Louis Public Library, Missouri
25th: Joseph-Beth Books, Cincinnati
24th: Villanova University, Philadelphia
23rd: McNally Jackson, New York (with Colm Toibin)
22nd: Politics & Prose, Washington DC
3rd: Imperial War Museum, London
30th: Cambridge Winter Festival (with Donal Ryan)
18th: Jarrold’s Bookshop, Norwich
13th: National Gallery of Ireland (with Alex Barclay, Kevin Barry & Donal Ryan)
4th: Hong Kong Polytechnic University
3rd: United World College, Hong Kong
25th: International Festival of Authors, Toronto (with Tim Winton, Matthew Thomas & Peter Robinson)
24th: Station on the Green, Creemore, Ontario (with Nick Cutter & Lois Leveen)
24th: Royal St George’s College, Toronto
24th: Armadale Public School, Markham, Ontario
18th: Guildford Literary Festival
11th: Cheltenham Literary Festival (with Michael Foreman)
10th: Cheltenham Literary Festival (with Donal Ryan & Audrey McGee)
29th: Oundle Literary Festival (with Linda Newbery)
12th: Mountains To Sea Festival, Dun Laoghaire (with David Mitchell)
7th: Manuscripta Festival, Utrecht, Holland
6th: Boekhandel Stevens, Hoofdoorp, Holland
6th: Boekhandel Wagner, Sassenheim, Holland
20th-21st: Edinburgh Festival
31st: The Gutter Bookshop, Dublin (with Belinda McKeon and Oona Frawley)
3rd: Literary Death Match, Foyle’s, London (with Nick Harkaway, Carys Bray & Anthony Anaxagorou)
3rd: Forest Hill School, Dulwich
3rd: Oakfield Prep School, Dulwich
2nd: Peterborough Central Library
1st: Waterstone’s Deansgate
14th: Irish Writers Centre (with Evelyn Conlon & Thomas Morris)
29th-30th: Listowel Writers Week
8th: Turin International Book Fair, Italy
7th: Ipsia Birago School, Turin, Italy
6th: Piazza Cavalli, Piacenza, Italy
30th: Irish Writers Center, Dublin: Launching Jean Kavanagh’s ‘Other Places’
13th: San Diego Public Library, San Diego, CA
12th: Los Angeles Times Books Festival
11th: Powells Books, Portland, OR
10th: Blue Willow Books, Houston, TX
9th: Texas Library Association Conference, San Antonio, TX
8th: Tenley Library, Washington DC
7th: Hooray 4 Books, Alexandria, Virginia
7th: Capital City Public School, Washington DC
6th: Jones Library, Amherst, MA
5th: McNally Jackson Books, Prince Street, New York
4th-8th: Emirates Festival of Literature, Dubai
11th: Trinity College Dublin Literary Society
10th: St Louis School, Rathmines, Dublin
1st: Cartagena University, Colombia
31st: Teatro Adolfo Mejia, Hay Festival, Cartagena, Colombia
8th-9th: Cashel Arts Festival, Ireland
5th: Cafe U Dvoristu, Zagreb, Croatia
30th: UEA Literary Festival, Norwich (with Andrew Miller)
26th: Bram Stoker Festival, Dublin (with Diane Setterfield)
24th: UCD Literary Society, Dublin
19th: Irish Spanish Latin American Literary Festival (with John Banville)
11th: The Abbey School, Reading
11th: Charters School, Berkshire
10th: Hexham Books Festival
9th: Wimbledon Books Festival, London
8th: Stourport High School, Worcestshire
7th: St Paul’s School, Lonsdale Road, London
7th: Jubilee School, Tulse Hill, London
1st: Trinity College, Dublin
28th: Bath Literature Festival, England
24th: The Gutter Bookshop, Dublin
12th: Harbourfront Festival, Hamburg, Germany
10th: Berlin International Literature Festival
9th: The English Theatre, Frankfurt, Germany
7th: Livres sur les Quai Festival, Morges, Switzerland (with Victoria Hislop & Tom Rob Smith)
31st: Electric Picnic (with Mike McCormack)
24th: Irish Writers Centre (with Kevin Maher)
12th: Way With Words Festival, Dartington Hall, Totnes
30th: Hay Festival Kells
15th: Dalkey Book Festival (with Donal Ryan & Carlo Gebler)
15th: Dalkey Book Festival (with Oisin McGann)
10th: Belfast Books Festival
31st: Hay-on-Wye Festival, Wales
23rd-24th: Ljubljana, Slovenia
18th: CBI Conference, Lighthouse Cinema, Dublin
14th: Cavalry & Guards Club, London
13th: David’s Books, Letchworth
10th: Cambridge Union
10th: Lincoln Inspired Festival
9th: Waterstone’s Doncaster
8th: Waterstone’s Nottingham
7th: Liverpool Town Hall
7th: RBS, Edinburgh
25th: St Louis Jewish Book Festival, MO
24th: Parnassus Books, Nashville TN
23rd: Politics & Prose, Washington DC
22nd: Aaron’s Books, Calvary Church, Lititz, PA
20th: Warren-Newport Library, Chicago, IL
19th: Anderson’s Bookshop, Naperville, IL
25th: Bologna Book Fair, Italy
13th: United Arts Club, Dublin
28th: UEA, Norwich (with David Lodge, Margaret Drabble and Giles Foden)
18th: Dublin Books Festival, Smock Alley Theatre
12th-13th: Madrid, Spain
30th: Waterstone’s Guildford, London
20th: Powerscourt House, Dublin (with Colum McCann, Paul Murray and Barry Sonenfeld)
9th-14th: Hong Kong International Writers Festival
28th-29th: Gothenburg Book Fair, Sweden (with Sebastian Barry, Paul Murray, Kevin Barry, Siobhan Parkinson, Eilis NiDhuibhne)
15th: Cairns Tropical Writers Festival, Australia
13th: Mossman, Northern Queensland, Australia
12th: Mareeba, Northern Queensland, Australia
4th – 9th: Brisbane Writers Festival, Australia
3rd: Whitireia Theatre, Wellington, New Zealand
30th – 2nd Sep: Christchurch Writers Festival, New Zealand
25th – 29th: Melbourne Writers Festival, Australia
22nd: The Midnight Shift, Sydney, Australia
13th: Kilkenny Arts Festival
2nd: The Gutter Bookshop, Dublin
12th: Waterstone’s, Covent Garden, London
4th: Tales on Moon Lane, Herne Hill, London
15th: Irish Writers Centre, Dublin
11th-12th: International Festival of Children’s Literature, Cologne, Germany
5th: Book Expo, Javits Centre, New York
30th: Reid Concert Hall, Edinburgh: In conversation with John Irving
29th: Shaw Theatre, London: In conversation with John Irving
9th: Gutter Bookshop, Dublin. Europe Culture Day
19th: Vancouver International Writers Festival (with Owen Laukkanen and Buffy Cram)
14th: Calgary, Canada
11th: Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Canada
4th: Washington DC
3rd: Little Town, New York
23rd: Bookstore Pustet, Freising, Germany
22nd: Thalia Bookstore, Bonn, Germany
19th – 20th: Cologne Literary Festival, Germany
17th: Leipzig Book Fair, Germany
25th: Kate O’Brien Literary Weekend, Limerick
21st: Galle Literary Festival, Sri Lanka: Hall de Galle
21st: Galle Literary Festival, Sri Lanka: Buona Vista Centre
20th: Galle Literary Festival, Sri Lanka: Mama’s Rooftop Cafe
19th: Galle Literary Festival, Sri Lanka: The Paddy Fields
20th: Arenberg Theatre, Antwerp, Belgium (Crossing Border Festival)
19th: Royal Theatre, The Hague, Netherlands (Crossing Border Festival)
12th – 14th: Istanbul Book Fair, Turkey
28th – 30th: Helsinki Book Fair, Finland
27th: Akateeminen Kirjakuppa Bookstore, Helsinki, Finland
1st: Bath Festival of Children’s Literature
15th: Halesowen, Birmingham, UK
14th: Formby Bookshop, Liverpool, UK
10th: Mountains To Sea Festival, Dun Laoire (with Claire Kilroy and Chris Binchy)
8th: Mountains To Sea Festival, Dun Laoire (with Ed O’Loughlin)
4th: Manuscripta Book Fair, Amsterdam
3rd: Manuscripta Book Fair, Amsterdam
28th: The Market Theatre, Armagh
16th: Days Bazaar, Mullingar
8th: West Cork Literary Festival (with Paul Murray)
23rd: University of East Anglia, Norwich (with Joseph O’Connor)
19th: Dalkey Books Festival (with Roddy Doyle)
1st: Hay-on-Wye Literary Festival
27th: Dublin Writers’ Festival (with Paul Harding)
24th: Dublin Writers’ Festival (with Roddy Doyle and Anne Enright)
20th: Charleston Literary Festival (with David Nicholls and Jill Dawson)
19th: Peterborough Library
18th: Birmingham Central Library
18th: Walsall Library
17th: Topping’s Bookshop, Bath
16th: The Drill Hall, Chepstow, Wales
15th: Radio Interview: BBC Radio 4 Open Book with Mariella Frostrip
13th: Radio Interview: BBC Radio 2 Night Waves with Claudia Winkleman
12th: Nottingham Central Library
12th: Chesterfield Central Library
11th: Crosby Civic Hall, Liverpool
11th: St John Plessington High School, The Wirral
10th: Waterstone’s, Deansgate, Manchester
8th: The Corby Theatre, Northamptonshire (with Joe Dunthorne)
6th: Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival, Belfast
15th: Scarborough Literary Festival (with Niall Williams)
14th: Malahide Library, Dublin
16th: Shearer’s Bookstore, Leichhardt, Sydney, Australia
7th: Flickerfest, Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia
12th: The Ark, Temple Bar, Story Spark season
27th: James Joyce Centre, Dublin
20th: Dubray Bookshop, Bray, Co Wicklow
10th: ILAC Centre, Dublin
6th: Foyles, Charing Cross Road, London (with Oliver Jeffers)
30th: Zurich, Switzerland
29th: Hamburg, Germany
28th: Munich, Germany
27th: Cologne, Germany
26th: Dusseldorf, Germany
25th: Leipzig, Germany
22nd: Gutersloh, Germany
19th: Riverbank Theatre, Newbridge
16th: Pavilion Theatre, Dun Laoghaire
14th: Ballyroan Library, Dublin
9th: Cheltenham Literary Festival
8th: Cheltenham Literary Festival (with Joseph O’Connor)
6th: Ipswich County Library
30th: Gutter Bookshop, Dublin
22nd: Navan Library Readers Day
23rd: Edinburgh Festival
22nd: Edinburgh Festival
19th: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
16th: Bienal Festival, Sao Paulo (with Josetin Gaarder)
15th: Bienal Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil
8th: Kilkenny Arts Festival, reading with Andrew O’Hagan & Colm Toibin
4th: In conversation with Christos Tsiolkas, Dun Laoire, Dublin
5th-6th West Cork Literary Festival
19th: Mare di Libri Festival, Rimini, Italy
15th: Irish Embassy, Sofia, Bulgaria
6th: In conversation with Yann Martel, Dublin Writers Festival
17th: Jewish Public Library, Montreal
16th: Books & Brunch, Sheraton Centre Montreal
12th: Harbourfront Festival, Toronto
11th: Aloud Readings, Toronto
9th: New Ross Library, Wexford
26th: Bolibri Festival, Bologna, Italy
23rd: Bologna Book Fair, Italy
20th: Irish Writers Centre, Dublin
19th: Sean Dunne Writers Festival, Waterford
4th: Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris
4th: The Wiener Library, London
25th-26th: Amsterdam, Holland
12th: Richmond-Upon-Thames Literary Festival
2nd-3rd: Barcelona, Spain
23rd – 26th: Singapore Writers Festival
7th: Birmingham Book Festival
30th: Tsar Nicholas II Library, Winter Palace, St Petersburg, Russia
27th: Wigtown Book Festival, Scotland
24th: Aspects Literary Festival, Bangor
20th: Clifden Arts Week, Co Galway
12th: Mountains To Sea Festival, Dun Laoire
7th: SW11 Literary Festival, Waterstone’s Clapham
27th: Deakin University, Melbourne
23rd – 26th: Melbourne Writers Festival, Australia
22nd: Novel Masterclass, RMIT, Melbourne
18th: Literary Lunch, Four Seasons Hotel, Sydney
23rd: Hughes & Hughes, Wexford
22nd: Waterstone’s, Cork
21st: Dubray, Galway
9th: Deansgrange Library
3rd: Suffolk Libraries Day
30th: Humber Mouth Festival, Hull
16th-17th: Aberdeen Word Festival
15th: Lincoln Book Festival
2nd-3rd: Berlin, Germany
23rd: Fitzwilliam Hotel Dublin, Image Authors Evening
22nd: Trinity College Dublin, Philosophical Society
7th: Ennis Book Club Festival, Clare
28th-30th: Amsterdam, Holland
9th: Trinity College Dublin, Amnesty Readings
1st-7th: Guadalajara Book Fair, Mexico
22nd: ILE Translators Conference, Dublin
18th: Irish Writers Centre, Hourglass Readings
8th: Tallaght Readers Day, Dublin
15th-30th: American Tour
Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago, Dallas, Seattle, Washington DC, Philadelphia, New York
7th: Dubray Literary Lunch, Dublin
30th-2nd: Zurich, Switzerland
22nd-27th: Madrid & Barcelona, Spain
18th-21st: San Sebastian, Spain
11th: London Film Premiere of ‘Boy’
4th: World Premiere of ‘Boy’, Dublin
11th: Dublin Writers Festival
30th: Dingle Bookshop, Kerry
28th-1st: Listowel Writers Week, Kerry
24th-26th: Hay-on-Wye Literary Festival
10th: Hughes & Hughes, Dundalk
1st-3rd: Cologne Literary Festival, Germany
21st-26th: New Delhi Literary Festival, India
9th-11th: West Cork Literary Festival
7th-9th: Kinsale Arts Week
Australia/New Zealand Book Tour:
Perth, Sydney, Melbourne, Sunshine Coast, Christchurch, Auckland, Wellington
25th: Cuirt Literary Festival, Galway