Martin Doyle

Thanks, Matt.

So it's interviews that I've done over the course of my career, a bit of a retrospective, I guess, with 60 Irish writers dating back to, I don't know, Patricia Scanlon, Marion Keys in the early 90s for the Irish Post in London.

through people like, I don't know, Brian Moore, Pat McKay when The Butcher Boy came out in 92, Roddy Doyle just before he won the Booker Prize for Paddy Clark, ha ha ha, in 93, all the way up to, say, Sebastian Barry.

That's the only one that's not yet published.

It's about his career, but it also includes

you know, mention of his forthcoming novel, which is the third in the trilogy set during the, in the aftermath of the US Civil War, which was coming out in September.

But Jan Carson, Sally Rooney, a lot of the big names.

In fact, I'd say we did a poll last year of asking 60 people for their best books, best fiction of the 21st century so far.

And I think the authors of 22 of the top 25 are in my book.

Interesting question, Matt.

There's a journalist question.

Um...

If I was being absolutely honest, I would say there was one potential libel that I thought was probably best not to repeat.

Probably shouldn't even say that much, should I?

So you took it out.

I took that out.

That's wise.

Generally, no.

Like there was a little say.

I did two interviews with Alice Taylor, who still, I think her book, To School Through the Fields, is still the best selling Irish book ever.