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2022

Nov 25: 🇲🇹 Malta Book Festival

Nov 10: 🇩🇪 Geistesblüten, Berlin

Nov 9: 🇩🇪 Kirche Ottensen, Hamburg

Nov 7: 🇳🇱 Guiding Voices, Rotterdam

Nov 6: 🇧🇪 Boektopia, Kortrijk, Belgium

Oct 21: 🇷🇴 National Theatre, Iasi, Romania

Sep 28: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Topping’s Books, Bath

Sep 27:  🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Waterstone’s, Yeovil

Sep 24: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Wigtown Books Festival

Sep 23: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Bookends, Carlisle

Sep 21: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Chorleywood Golf Club, London

Aug 29: 🇳🇱 Beste Boeken Live, Utrecht

Jun 26: 🇫🇷 Saint-Maur en Poche, Paris

Jun 25: 🇫🇷 Chapelle de Carmélites, Toulouse

Jun 26: 🇫🇷 Tire Lire Bookshop, Toulouse

Jun 24: 🇫🇷 Nuit Blanche des Livres, Paris

Jun 18: 🇮🇪 Dalkey Book Festival (with Yassmin Abdel-Magied & Simon Kuper)

Jun 4: 🇮🇪 Listowel Writers Week

Jun 3: 🇮🇪 Listowel Writers Week (with Clare O’Dea and Sophie Grenham)

Apr 8-10: 🇮🇪 Franco-Irish Literary Festival, Dublin

Mar 8: 🇮🇪 St Olaf’s School, Balally, Dublin

2021

Dec 1: 🇲🇽 Embassy of Ireland, Mexico City

Nov 27-29: 🇲🇽 Guadalajara International Book Fair, Mexico

Nov 6: 🇳🇴 SILK Festival, Skudenshaven, Norway

Nov 5: 🇳🇴 Karmøy Kino, Kopervik, Norway

Nov 4: 🇳🇴 Edda Kino, Haugesund, Norway

Oct 27: 🖥️ Festival of Authors, Santiago, Chile (virtual)

Sep 18: 🇪🇸 Madrid Book Fair

Sep 18: 🇪🇸 Hay Festival Segovia, Spain

Sep 5: 🇨🇭 Morges Literary Festival (with Anna Enquist)

Sep 4: 🇨🇭 Morges Literary Festival (with Arnon Grünberg)

Aug 21: 🇮🇪 Borris Festival (with Rob Doyle)

Aug 5: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Tring Literary Festival

Jun 20: 🖥️ Carlow MFA Programme (virtual)

Apr 17: 🖥️ Ízmir Youth Literary Day, Turkey (virtual)

Mar 24: 🖥️ Cork County Council (virtual)

2020

Sep 26: 🖥️ Henley Literary Festival (virtual) (with David Mitchell)

Mar 1-4: 🇦🇺 Adelaide Writers’ Week, Australia

2019

Oct 20: 🇮🇪 Kildare Readers Festival (with Dermot Bolger)

Oct 11-12: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 North Cornwall Book Festival

Oct 4: 🇮🇪 Dromineer Literary Festival (with Anne Griffin & Rick O’Shea)

Sep 28: 🇮🇪 Bray Literary Festival (with Jess Kidd)

Sep 20: 🇮🇪 Culture Night, Dept of Culture, Dublin (with Mary Costello & Sarah Davis-Goff)

Aug 16: 🇵🇱 Sopot by the Book, Poland

Aug 11: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Edinburgh Festival

Jul 14: 🇮🇪 West Cork Literary Festival (with Patrick Gale)

Jun 29: 🇮🇪 Hinterland Festival, Kells

Jun 16: 🇮🇪 Belfast Book Festival

Jun 15: 🇮🇪 Belfast Book Festival (with Roddy Doyle, Louise Doughty and Paul McVeigh)

Jun 1: 🇮🇪 Writers Week, Listowel (with Jan Carson)

Jun 1: 🇮🇪 Community Centre, Listowel

May 31: 🇮🇪 Writers Week, Listowel (with Sarah Davis-Goff & Anne Griffin)

May 30: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Hay-on-Wye Festival, Wales

May 24: 🇮🇪 International Literature Festival, Dublin

May 18: 🇳🇿 Auckland Writers Festival, New Zealand

May 17: 🇳🇿 Auckland Writers Festival (with Andrew Sean Greer, Anne Kennedy & Carla Guelfenbein)

May 16: 🇳🇿 Auckland Writers Festival Gala Event, New Zealand

May 14: 🇳🇿 National Library of New Zealand, Wellington

May 13: 🇳🇿 The Piano, Christchurch, New Zealand

May 11: 🇳🇿 Otago Boys’ High School, Dunedin, New Zealand

May 10: 🇳🇿 Toitū Otago Settlers Museum, Dunedin, New Zealand

May 10: 🇳🇿 Otago Girls’ High School, Dunedin, New Zealand

Apr 24: 🇮🇪 Cork Central Library

Apr 17: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Waterstone’s, Piccadilly, London

Apr 8: 🇳🇱 Dekker v.d. Vegt, Nijmegen, Holland

Apr 8: 🇳🇱 Euretco, Hoevelaken, Holland

Apr 6: 🇮🇪 Franco-Irish Festival, Dublin

Mar 31: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Oxford Literary Festival

Mar 29: 🇮🇪 Mountain to Sea Festival, Dublin (with Kate Mosse, Hannah Beckerman)

Mar 13: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 UEA Literary Festival, Norwich

Feb 21: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Waterstone’s Piccadilly (with Tana French)

Jan 21: 🇩🇪 Town Library, Buxtehuder, Germany

2018

Nov 21: 🇮🇪 Hodges Figgis, Dublin

Nov 17: 🇮🇪 Dublin Books Festival (with David Park)

Nov 15: 🇮🇪 Peacock Theatre, Dublin (with Louise O’Neill & Emilie Pine)

Nov 1: 🇮🇪 Hodges Figgis, Dublin (with Paul Howard & Cormac Kinsella)

Oct 30: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Thornton Hall Hotel, Liverpool (with Markus Zusak)

Oct 28: 🇮🇪 Imagine Arts Festival, Waterford (with Cecelia Ahern & Rick O’Shea)

Oct 14: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Birmingham Literature Festival (with Kit de Waal)

Oct 13: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Pontio Centre, Bangor, Wales

Oct 2: 🇮🇪 DLR Lexicon, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin

Sep 25: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Wigtown Books Festival, Scotland

Sep 23: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Appledore Literary Festival

Sep 21: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival

Sep 16: 🇫🇷 Bibliothèque Ideales Festival, Strasbourg (with Jon Kalman Stefansson)

Sep 15: 🇫🇷 Besançon Festival, France

Sep 13: 🇫🇷 L’Écume des Pages, Paris

Sep 2: 🇮🇪 Seamus Heaney Homeplace, Bellaghy

Aug 25: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Edinburgh Festival

Aug 9: 🇮🇪 Hodges Figgis Bookshop, Dublin

Jun 15: 🇺🇸 Nantucket Book Festival, USA

May 25: 🇮🇪 Words Ireland, IMMA, Dublin

May 24: 🇮🇪 Polari Festival, Bellobar, Dublin

May 23: 🇮🇪 International Literary Festival, Dublin (with John Banville & Claire Kilroy)

Apr 14: 🇮🇪 Eigse Michael Hartnett, Limerick (with Edward O’Grady)

Mar 16: 🇸🇪 LittFest, Umea, Sweden

Mar 15: 🇸🇪 Akademibokhandeln Bookshop, Stockholm, Sweden

Feb 22: 🇮🇪 ICA Meeting, Rathfarnham, Dublin

Jan 16: 🇮🇳 Lit For Life Festival, Chennai, India (with Paro Anand, Vidya Mani & Anushka Ravishankar)

Jan 15: 🇮🇳 Lit For Life Festival, Chennai, India

Jan 14: 🇮🇳 Lit For Life Festival, Chennai, India (with Sebastian Faulks)

2017

Nov 1: 🇺🇸 Parnassus Books, Nashville, TN

Oct 31: 🇺🇸 Georgia Centre for the Book, Atlanta, GA

Oct 30: 🇺🇸 Kramer Books, Washington, DC

Oct 29: 🇺🇸 Quail Ridge Bookstore, Raleigh, NC

Oct 28: 🇺🇸 Northshire Bookstore, Manchester, VT

Oct 27: 🇨🇦 Toronto IFOA (with Vincent Lam, Frances Itani, Terri Fallis)

Oct 26: 🇨🇦 Toronto IFOA (with Emma Donoghue)

Oct 25: 🇨🇦 Toronto IFOA (with John Irving)

Oct 22: 🇨🇦 Vancouver Writers Festival (with Nathan Englander, Claire Cameron, Karen Connolly, Merilyn Simonds, Deborah Willis)

Oct 21: 🇨🇦 Vancouver Writers Festival (with Wayne Johnston & Camille Bordas)

Oct 20: 🇨🇦 Vancouver Writers Festival (with Sarah Dunant, Camille Bordas, Sylvain Prudhomme, Grace O’Connell & Omar El Akkad)

Oct 14: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Wells Festival of Literature

Oct 1: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Marlborough Literature Festival

Sep 30: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Jersey Festival of Words

Sep 23: 🇮🇪 CBI Conference Dublin (with Cecelia Ahern & Shane Hegarty)

Sep 2: 🇨🇭 Morges Literary Festival, Switzerland (with Emanuel Bergman)

Sep 1: 🇨🇭 Morges Literary Festival, Switzerland (with Donal Ryan)

Aug 13: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Edinburgh Festival

Aug 10: 🇮🇪 Farmleigh House, Dublin (with Nuala O’Connor & Mia Gallagher)

Aug 2: 🇮🇪 Open House Festival, Bangor

Jul 25: 🇮🇪 John Hewitt Summer School, Armagh

Jul 16: 🇮🇪 West Cork Literary Festival (with Sarah Moss)

Jul 7: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Bradford Literature Festival

Jul 7: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 National Media Museum, Bradford

Jun 17: 🇮🇪 Dalkey Book Festival (with Maggie O’Farrell & Joshua Jelly-Schapiro)

Jun 11: 🇮🇪 Borris Festival, Offaly (with Edmund White & Eileen Battersby)

Jun 4: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Hay-on-Wye Festival

May 19: 🇮🇪 International Literary Festival, Dublin (with Mary Dorcey, Claire Hennessy & Denis Keogh)

May 13: 🇸🇰 Kníhkupectvo Martinus Bookshop, Bratislava

May 12: 🇨🇿 Prague Book Festival

Apr 27: 🇮🇪 Cuirt Festival, Galway (with Kit deWaal)

Apr 17: 🇮🇪 Dublin Castle

Mar 24: 🇮🇪 Mountains To Sea Festival, Dun Laoire (with Chris Cleave)

Mar 19: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Aye Write Festival, Glasgow

Mar 9: 🇧🇪 Brussels Book Fair, Belgium

Mar 8: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 The Barbican, London

Mar 6: 🇮🇪 The Sound Cloud, Dublin (with Little Green Cars)

Mar 4: 🇮🇪 Ennis Book Club Festival

Feb 21: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Crow Bookseller, London (with Sara Baume)

Feb 16: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Irish Institute, Liverpool

Feb 15: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Waterstone’s, York

Feb 13: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Heffers Bookshop, Cambridge

2016

Oct 14: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Cheltenham Literature Festival (with Joseph Knox, Rachel Rhys & Belinda Bauer)

Sep 24: 🇮🇪 Irish Writers Centre, Dublin

Sep 10: 🇮🇪 Cork International Short Story Festival (with Sean O’Brien)

Sep 3: 🇨🇭 Morges Literary Festival (with Rosie Thomas, Petina Gappah & Anne Korkeakivi)

Sep 2: 🇨🇭 La Cote International, Aubonne, Switzerland

Sep 2: 🇨🇭 Casino Hotel, Salle Belle Epoque, Morges

Sep 1: 🇨🇭 Gems Academy, Etoy, Switzerland

Aug 27: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Edinburgh Festival (with Simon Mayo)

Jun 19: 🇮🇹 Mare di Libri Festival, Rimini, Italy

Jun 12: 🇮🇪 Howth Literary Festival (with Hilary Fannin & Sean Moncrieff)

May 22: 🇦🇺 Sydney Writers Festival (with Chris Bowen)

May 20: 🇦🇺 Sydney Writers Festival (with Leah Kaminsky & Nir Baram)

May 20: 🇦🇺 Sydney Writers Festival (with Paul Muldoon & Paul Murray)

May 18: 🇦🇺 Concourse Theatre, Chatswood, Sydney

May 17: 🇦🇺 Riverside Theatre, Parramatta, Sydney

May 16: 🇦🇺 Roslyn Packer Theatre, Sydney, Australia

May 14: 🇳🇿 Auckland Writers Festival

May 13: 🇳🇿 Auckland Writers Festival (with Paul Muldoon & Noelle McCarthy)

May 12: 🇳🇿 Aotea Centre, Auckland, NZ

Apr 3: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 FCBG Conference, University of Wolverhampton

Feb 2: 🇮🇪 Pavilion Theatre, Dublin (with John Irving)

2015

Dec 15: 🇮🇪 Writers Abroad Conference, Butlers Townhouse, Dublin

Nov 28: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Waterstone’s Piccadilly (with SJ Naure & Kirsty Logan)

Nov 20: 🇮🇪 University College Dublin

Nov 13: 🇨🇦 Taddle Creek School, Toronto

Nov 1: 🇧🇪 Antwerp Book Fair, Belgium

Oct 30: 🇧🇪 Theoreia Bookshop, Kortrijk, Belgium

Oct 24: 🇮🇪 Deptcon1, Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin (with Sheila O’Flanagan)

Oct 16: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Shenley Brook End School, Milton Keynes

Oct 15: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Waterstone’s Piccadilly

Oct 15: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Centre for Literacy in Primary Education, London

Oct 15: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Shrewsbury House School, Surbiton

Oct 14: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Canterbury University

Oct 2: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Bath Children’s Literature Festival (with Andy Mulligan)

Oct 2: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Selwood Academy, Frome

Sep 20: 🇮🇹 Pordenolegge Literary Festival, Italy

Sep 17: 🇩🇪 Literaturhaus Cologne, Germany. The Gustav Heinemann Peace Prize

Aug 24: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Edinburgh Festival

Jul 28: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Pembroke College, Cambridge

Jul 16: 🇮🇪 West Cork Literary Festival (with Paul Murray)

Jun 6: 🇳🇱 Boekhandel Van Piere, Eindhoven

Jun 6: 🇳🇱 Boekhandel Dominicanen, Maastricht

Jun 5: 🇳🇱 Boekhandel Den Boer, Baarn

Jun 5: 🇳🇱 Boekhandel Bouwann, De Bilt

Jun 4: 🇳🇱 Boekhandel Riemer, Groningen

Jun 4: 🇳🇱 Boekhandel Binnert Overdiep, Heerenveen

Jun 3: 🇳🇱 Boekhandel Van Der Meer, Noordvijk

Jun 3: 🇳🇱 Boekhandel Jaspers, Badhoverdorp

May 27: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Hay-on-Wye Literary Festival

May 26: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Hay-on-Wye (with Daniel Hahn & Jenny Valentine)

May 23: 🇿🇦 Kingsmead Book Fair, Johannesburg, South Africa

May 21: 🇿🇦 Love Books, Johannesburg, South Africa

May 17: 🇿🇦 Church Hall, Franschhoek, South Africa (with Mandla Langa & Eshkol Nevo)

May 16: 🇿🇦 Church Hall, Franschhoek, South Africa (with Sarah Waters & Damon Galgut)

May 15: 🇿🇦 Allora Restaurant, Franschhoek, South Africa

May 15: 🇿🇦 Congregational Church, Franschhoek, South Africa

May 15: 🇿🇦 New School Hall, Franschhoek, South Africa (with Chris Bradford)

May 14: 🇿🇦 Bridge Hill School, Franschhoek, South Africa

Apr 13: 🇫🇷 Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris

Mar 11: 🇨🇦 The Dora Keogh, Toronto (with Linden MacIntyre)

Mar 9: 🇺🇸 Harvard Bookstore, Boston (with David Vann)

Mar 7: 🇺🇸 Tattered Cover, Denver, Colorado

Mar 6: 🇺🇸 Book Passage, Corte Madera, California

Mar 5: 🇺🇸 Rakestraw Books, Danville, California

Mar 4: 🇺🇸 Books Inc, The Castro, San Francisco

Mar 2: 🇺🇸 University Bookstore, Seattle

Mar 2: 🇺🇸 Women’s University Club, Seattle

Feb 26: 🇺🇸 St Louis Public Library, Missouri

Feb 25: 🇺🇸 Joseph-Beth Books, Cincinnati

Feb 24: 🇺🇸 Villanova University, Philadelphia

Feb 23: 🇺🇸 McNally Jackson, New York (with Colm Toibin)

Feb 22: 🇺🇸 Politics & Prose, Washington DC

Feb 3: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Imperial War Museum, London

2014

Nov 30: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Cambridge Winter Festival (with Donal Ryan)

Nov 18: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Jarrold’s Bookshop, Norwich

Nov 13: 🇮🇪 National Gallery of Ireland (with Alex Barclay, Kevin Barry & Donal Ryan)

Nov 4: 🇭🇰 Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Nov 3: 🇭🇰 United World College, Hong Kong

Oct 25: 🇨🇦 International Festival of Authors, Toronto (with Tim Winton, Matthew Thomas & Peter Robinson)

Oct 24: 🇨🇦 Station on the Green, Creemore, Ontario (with Nick Cutter & Lois Leveen)

Oct 24: 🇨🇦 Royal St George’s College, Toronto

Oct 24: 🇨🇦 Armadale Public School, Markham, Ontario

Oct 18: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Guildford Literary Festival

Oct 11: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Cheltenham Literary Festival (with Michael Foreman)

Oct 10: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Cheltenham Literary Festival (with Donal Ryan & Audrey McGee)

Sep 29: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Oundle Literary Festival (with Linda Newbery)

Sep 12: 🇮🇪 Mountains To Sea Festival, Dun Laoghaire (with David Mitchell)

Sep 7: 🇳🇱 Manuscripta Festival, Utrecht, Holland

Sep 6: 🇳🇱 Boekhandel Stevens, Hoofdoorp, Holland

Sep 6: 🇳🇱 Boekhandel Wagner, Sassenheim, Holland

Aug 20-21: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Edinburgh Festival

Jul 31: 🇮🇪 The Gutter Bookshop, Dublin (with Belinda McKeon and Oona Frawley)

Jul 3: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Literary Death Match, Foyle’s, London (with Nick Harkaway, Carys Bray & Anthony Anaxagorou)

Jul 3: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Forest Hill School, Dulwich

Jul 3: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Oakfield Prep School, Dulwich

Jul 2: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Peterborough Central Library

Jul 1: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Waterstone’s Deansgate

Jun 14: 🇮🇪 Irish Writers Centre (with Evelyn Conlon & Thomas Morris)

May 29-30: 🇮🇪 Listowel Writers Week

May 8: 🇮🇹 Turin International Book Fair, Italy

May 7: 🇮🇹 Ipsia Birago School, Turin, Italy

May 6: 🇮🇹 Piazza Cavalli, Piacenza, Italy

Apr 30: 🇮🇪 Irish Writers Center, Dublin: Launching Jean Kavanagh’s ‘Other Places’

Apr 13: 🇺🇸 San Diego Public Library, San Diego, CA

Apr 12: 🇺🇸 Los Angeles Times Books Festival

Apr 11: 🇺🇸 Powells Books, Portland, OR

Apr 10: 🇺🇸 Blue Willow Books, Houston, TX

Apr 9: 🇺🇸 Texas Library Association Conference, San Antonio, TX

Apr 8: 🇺🇸 Tenley Library, Washington DC

Apr 7: 🇺🇸 Hooray 4 Books, Alexandria, Virginia

Apr 7: 🇺🇸 Capital City Public School, Washington DC

Apr 6: 🇺🇸 Jones Library, Amherst, MA

Apr 5: 🇺🇸 McNally Jackson Books, Prince Street, New York

Mar 4-8: 🇦🇪 Emirates Festival of Literature, Dubai

Feb 11: 🇮🇪 Trinity College Dublin Literary Society

Feb 10: 🇮🇪 St Louis School, Rathmines, Dublin

Feb 1: 🇨🇴 Cartagena University, Colombia

Jan 31: 🇨🇴 Teatro Adolfo Mejia, Hay Festival, Cartagena, Colombia

2013

Nov 8-9: 🇮🇪 Cashel Arts Festival, Ireland

Nov 5: 🇭🇷 Cafe U Dvoristu, Zagreb, Croatia

Oct 30: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 UEA Literary Festival, Norwich (with Andrew Miller)

Oct 26: 🇮🇪 Bram Stoker Festival, Dublin (with Diane Setterfield)

Oct 24: 🇮🇪 UCD Literary Society, Dublin

Oct 19: 🇮🇪 Irish Spanish Latin American Literary Festival (with John Banville)

Oct 11: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 The Abbey School, Reading

Oct 11: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Charters School, Berkshire

Oct 10: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Hexham Books Festival

Oct 9: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Wimbledon Books Festival, London

Oct 8: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Stourport High School, Worcestshire

Oct 7: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 St Paul’s School, Lonsdale Road, London

Oct 7: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Jubilee School, Tulse Hill, London

Oct 1: 🇮🇪 Trinity College, Dublin

Sep 28: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Bath Literature Festival, England

Sep 24: 🇮🇪 The Gutter Bookshop, Dublin

Sep 12: 🇩🇪 Harbourfront Festival, Hamburg, Germany

Sep 10: 🇩🇪 Berlin International Literature Festival

Sep 9: 🇩🇪 The English Theatre, Frankfurt, Germany

Sep 7: 🇨🇭 Livres sur les Quai Festival, Morges, Switzerland (with Victoria Hislop & Tom Rob Smith)

Aug 31: 🇮🇪 Electric Picnic (with Mike McCormack)

Aug 24: 🇮🇪 Irish Writers Centre, Dublin (with Kevin Maher)

Jul 12: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Way With Words Festival, Dartington Hall, Totnes

Jun 30: 🇮🇪 Hay Festival Kells

Jun 15: 🇮🇪 Dalkey Book Festival (with Donal Ryan & Carlo Gebler)

Jun 15: 🇮🇪 Dalkey Book Festival (with Oisin McGann)

Jun 10: 🇮🇪 Belfast Books Festival

May 31: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Hay-on-Wye Festival, Wales

May 23-24: 🇸🇮 Ljubljana, Slovenia

May 18: 🇮🇪 CBI Conference, Lighthouse Cinema, Dublin

May 14: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Cavalry & Guards Club, London

May 13: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 David’s Books, Letchworth

May 10: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Cambridge Union

May 10: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lincoln Inspired Festival

May 9: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Waterstone’s Doncaster

May 8: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Waterstone’s Nottingham

May 7: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Liverpool Town Hall

May 7: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 RBS, Edinburgh

Apr 25: 🇺🇸 St Louis Jewish Book Festival, MO

Apr 24: 🇺🇸 Parnassus Books, Nashville TN

Apr 23: 🇺🇸 Politics & Prose, Washington DC

Apr 22: 🇺🇸 Aaron’s Books, Calvary Church, Lititz, PA

Apr 20: 🇺🇸 Warren-Newport Library, Chicago, IL

Apr 19: 🇺🇸 Anderson’s Bookshop, Naperville, IL

Mar 25: 🇮🇹 Bologna Book Fair, Italy

2012

Dec 13: 🇮🇪 United Arts Club, Dublin

Nov 28: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 UEA, Norwich (with David Lodge, Margaret Drabble and Giles Foden)

Nov 18: 🇮🇪 Dublin Books Festival, Smock Alley Theatre

Nov 12-13: 🇪🇸 Madrid, Spain

Oct 30: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Waterstone’s Guildford, London

Oct 20: 🇮🇪 Powerscourt House, Dublin (with Colum McCann, Paul Murray and Barry Sonenfeld)

Oct 9-14: 🇭🇰 Hong Kong International Writers Festival

Sep 28-29: 🇸🇪 Gothenburg Book Fair, Sweden

Sep 15: 🇦🇺 Cairns Tropical Writers Festival, Australia

Sep 13: 🇦🇺 Mossman, Northern Queensland, Australia

Sep 12: 🇦🇺 Mareeba, Northern Queensland, Australia

Sep 4-9: 🇦🇺 Brisbane Writers Festival, Australia

Sep 3: 🇳🇿 Whitireia Theatre, Wellington, New Zealand

Aug 30 – Sep 2: 🇳🇿 Christchurch Writers Festival, New Zealand

Aug 25-29: 🇦🇺 Melbourne Writers Festival, Australia

Aug 22: 🇦🇺 The Midnight Shift, Sydney, Australia

Aug 13: 🇮🇪 Kilkenny Arts Festival

Aug 2: 🇮🇪 The Gutter Bookshop, Dublin

Jul 12: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Waterstone’s, Covent Garden, London

Jul 4: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Tales on Moon Lane, Herne Hill, London

Jun 15: 🇮🇪 Irish Writers Centre, Dublin

Jun 11-12: 🇩🇪 International Festival of Children’s Literature, Cologne, Germany

Jun 5: 🇺🇸 Book Expo, Javits Centre, New York

May 30: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 In conversation with John Irving, Reid Concert Hall, Edinburgh

May 29: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 In conversation with John Irving, Shaw Theatre, London

May 9: 🇮🇪 Gutter Bookshop, Dublin. Europe Culture Day

Apr 19: 🇨🇦 Vancouver International Writers Festival (with Owen Laukkanen and Buffy Cram)

Apr 14: 🇨🇦 Calgary, Canada

Apr 11: 🇨🇦 Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Canada

Apr 4: 🇺🇸 Washington DC

Apr 3: 🇺🇸 Little Town, New York

Mar 23: 🇩🇪 Bookstore Pustet, Freising, Germany

Mar 22: 🇩🇪 Thalia Bookstore, Bonn, Germany

Mar 19-20: 🇩🇪 Cologne Literary Festival, Germany

Mar 17: 🇩🇪 Leipzig Book Fair, Germany

Feb 25: 🇮🇪 Kate O’Brien Literary Weekend, Limerick

Jan 19-21: 🇱🇰 Galle Literary Festival, Sri Lanka

2011

Nov 20: 🇧🇪 Arenberg Theatre, Antwerp, Belgium (Crossing Border Festival)

Nov 19: 🇳🇱 Royal Theatre, The Hague, Netherlands (Crossing Border Festival)

Nov 12-14: 🇹🇷 Istanbul Book Fair, Turkey

Oct 28-30: 🇫🇮 Helsinki Book Fair, Finland

Oct 27: 🇫🇮 Akateeminen Kirjakuppa Bookstore, Helsinki, Finland

Oct 1: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Bath Festival of Children’s Literature

Sep 15: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Halesowen, Birmingham, UK

Sep 14: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Formby Bookshop, Liverpool, UK

Sep 10: 🇮🇪 Mountains To Sea Festival, Dun Laoire (with Claire Kilroy and Chris Binchy)

Sep 8: 🇮🇪 Mountains To Sea Festival, Dun Laoire (with Ed O’Loughlin)

Sep 3-4: 🇳🇱 Manuscripta Book Fair, Amsterdam

Jul 28: 🇮🇪 The Market Theatre, Armagh

Jul 16: 🇮🇪 Days Bazaar, Mullingar

Jul 8: 🇮🇪 West Cork Literary Festival (with Paul Murray)

Jun 23: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 University of East Anglia, Norwich (with Joseph O’Connor)

Jun 19: 🇮🇪 Dalkey Books Festival (with Roddy Doyle)

Jun 1: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Hay-on-Wye Literary Festival

May 25: 🇮🇪 Dublin Writers Festival (with Paul Harding)

May 24: 🇮🇪 Dublin Writers Festival (with Roddy Doyle and Anne Enright)

May 20: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Charleston Literary Festival (with David Nicholls and Jill Dawson)

May 19: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Peterborough Library

May 18: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Birmingham Central Library

May 18: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Walsall Library

May 17: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Topping’s Bookshop, Bath

May 16: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 The Drill Hall, Chepstow, Wales

May 12: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Nottingham Central Library

May 12: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Chesterfield Central Library

May 11: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Crosby Civic Hall, Liverpool

May 11: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 St John Plessington High School, The Wirral

May 10: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Waterstone’s, Deansgate, Manchester

May 8: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 The Corby Theatre, Northamptonshire (with Joe Dunthorne)

May 6: 🇮🇪 Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival, Belfast

Apr 15: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Scarborough Literary Festival (with Niall Williams)

Mar 14: 🇮🇪 Malahide Library, Dublin

Feb 16: 🇦🇺 Shearer’s Bookstore, Sydney, Australia

Jan 7: 🇦🇺 Flickerfest, Sydney, Australia

2010

Dec 12: 🇮🇪 The Ark, Temple Bar, Dublin

Nov 27: 🇮🇪 James Joyce Centre, Dublin

Nov 20: 🇮🇪 Dubray Bookshop, Wicklow

Nov 10: 🇮🇪 ILAC Centre, Dublin

Nov 6: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Foyles, Charing Cross Road, London (with Oliver Jeffers)

Oct 30: 🇨🇭 Zurich, Switzerland

Oct 29: 🇩🇪 Hamburg, Germany

Oct 28: 🇩🇪 Munich, Germany

Oct 27: 🇩🇪 Cologne, Germany

Oct 26: 🇩🇪 Dusseldorf, Germany

Oct 25: 🇩🇪 Leipzig, Germany

Oct 22: 🇩🇪 Gutersloh, Germany

Oct 19: 🇮🇪 Riverbank Theatre, Newbridge

Oct 16: 🇮🇪 Pavilion Theatre, Dun Laoghaire

Oct 14: 🇮🇪 Ballyroan Library, Dublin

Oct 9: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Cheltenham Literary Festival

Oct 8: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Cheltenham Literary Festival (with Joseph O’Connor)

Oct 6: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Ipswich County Library

Sep 30: 🇮🇪 Gutter Bookshop, Dublin

Sep 22: 🇮🇪 Navan Library Readers Day

Aug 22-23: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Edinburgh Festival

Aug 19: 🇧🇷 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Aug 16: 🇧🇷 Bienal Festival, Sao Paulo (with Jostein Gaarder)

Aug 15: 🇧🇷 Bienal Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Aug 8: 🇮🇪 Kilkenny Arts Festival (with Andrew O’Hagan & Colm Toibin)

Aug 4: 🇮🇪 In conversation with Christos Tsiolkas, Dun Laoire, Dublin

Jul 5-6 🇮🇪 West Cork Literary Festival

Jun 19: 🇮🇹 Mare di Libri Festival, Rimini, Italy

Jun 15: 🇧🇬 Irish Embassy, Sofia, Bulgaria

Jun 6: 🇮🇪 In conversation with Yann Martel, Dublin Writers Festival

May 17: 🇨🇦 Jewish Public Library, Montreal

May 16: 🇨🇦 Books & Brunch, Sheraton Centre Montreal

May 12: 🇨🇦 Harbourfront Festival, Toronto

May 11: 🇨🇦 Aloud Readings, Toronto

Apr 9: 🇮🇪 New Ross Library, Wexford

Mar 26: 🇮🇹 Bolibri Festival, Bologna, Italy

Mar 23: 🇮🇹 Bologna Book Fair, Italy

Mar 20: 🇮🇪 Irish Writers Centre, Dublin

Mar 19: 🇮🇪 Sean Dunne Writers Festival, Waterford

Mar 4: 🇫🇷 Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris

Feb 4: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 The Wiener Library, London

2009

Nov 25-26: 🇳🇱 Amsterdam, Holland

Nov 12: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Richmond-Upon-Thames Literary Festival

Nov 2-3: 🇪🇸 Barcelona, Spain

Oct 23–26: 🇸🇬 Singapore Writers Festival

Oct 7: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Birmingham Book Festival

Sep 30: 🇷🇺 Tsar Nicholas II Library, Winter Palace, St Petersburg, Russia

Sep 27: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Wigtown Book Festival, Scotland

Sep 24: 🇮🇪 Aspects Literary Festival, Bangor

Sep 20: 🇮🇪 Clifden Arts Week, Galway

Sep 12: 🇮🇪 Mountains To Sea Festival, Dun Laoire

Sep 7: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 SW11 Literary Festival, Waterstone’s Clapham

Aug 27: 🇦🇺 Deakin University, Melbourne

Aug 23-26: 🇦🇺 Melbourne Writers Festival, Australia

Aug 22: 🇦🇺 Novel Masterclass, RMIT, Melbourne

Aug 18: 🇦🇺 Literary Lunch, Four Seasons Hotel, Sydney

Jul 23: 🇮🇪 Hughes & Hughes, Wexford

Jul 22: 🇮🇪 Waterstone’s, Cork

Jul 21: 🇮🇪 Dubray, Galway

Jul 9: 🇮🇪 Deansgrange Library, Dublin

Jul 3: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Suffolk Libraries Day

Jul 2: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Ipswich Arts Festival

Jun 30: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Humber Mouth Festival, Hull

May 16-17: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Aberdeen Word Festival

May 15: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lincoln Book Festival

May 2: 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany

Apr 23: 🇮🇪 Fitzwilliam Hotel Dublin, Image Authors Evening

Apr 22: 🇮🇪 Trinity College Dublin, Philosophical Society

Mar 7: 🇮🇪 Ennis Book Club Festival, Clare

Feb 28-30: 🇳🇱 Amsterdam, Holland

2008

Dec 9: 🇮🇪 Trinity College Dublin, Amnesty Readings

Dec 1-7: 🇲🇽 Guadalajara Book Fair, Mexico

Nov 22: 🇮🇪 ILE Translators Conference, Dublin

Nov 18: 🇮🇪 Irish Writers Centre, Hourglass Readings

Nov 8: 🇮🇪 Tallaght Readers Day, Dublin

Oct 15-30: 🇺🇸 Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago, Dallas, Seattle, Washington DC, Philadelphia, New York

Oct 7: 🇮🇪 Dubray Literary Lunch, Dublin

Sep 30: 🇨🇭 Zurich, Switzerland

Sep 22-27: 🇪🇸 Madrid & Barcelona, Spain

Sep 18-21: 🇪🇸 San Sebastian, Spain

Sep 11: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 UK Film Premiere of ‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’, London

Sep 4: 🇮🇪 World Premiere of ‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’, Dublin

Jun 11: 🇮🇪 Dublin Writers Festival

May 30: 🇮🇪 Dingle Bookshop, Kerry

May 28: 🇮🇪 Listowel Writers Week, Kerry

May 24-26: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Hay-on-Wye Literary Festival

Apr 10: 🇮🇪 Hughes & Hughes, Dundalk

Mar 1-3: 🇩🇪 Cologne Literary Festival, Germany

Jan 21-26: 🇮🇳 New Delhi Literary Festival, India

2007

Jul 9-11: 🇮🇪 West Cork Literary Festival

Jul 7-9: 🇮🇪 Kinsale Arts Week

May: 🇦🇺 Perth, Sydney, Melbourne, Sunshine Coast, Christchurch

May: 🇳🇿 Auckland, Wellington

Apr 25: 🇮🇪 Cuirt Literary Festival, Galway