Cosy Autumn reads

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What autumn reads are the librarians recommending for this month?

David McCullagh 0:01

Now it's starting to feel a bit like autumn in the air, so nothing better than curling up with a good book. And our librarians are here with their top picks for the month ahead. Tracy Macanini, uh executive librarian, Waterford Libraries, and Dorina Malloy from Mayo County Libraries. Good morning. Thanks a million for coming in. Uh Darina, to you first. The new book by Sebastian Barry, uh getting some very good reviews, set in post Civil War America where cruelty is ever

Darina Molloy 0:28

Yes, indeed. It is definitely a very cruel world. Now fans of Sebastian Barry and I know their legion, um, they won't need any encouragement to open this book. And anybody who loved, as I did, Days Without End and A Thousand Moons uh will love this all the more because we we meet again some of the characters from those books. We meet uh Thomas McNulty again, John Cole Winona. Um but the book also stands very comfortably on its own feet, so you don't have to have read them. Um so the main focus is uh young Tennyson uh Bougerot and he is making his way in post Civil War America. It's a really rough place and um for him it's particularly rough. It's very unforgiving. um as a black man who has been freed from slavery, but it it it it it's just horrific what he has to endure.

Darina Molloy 1:17

Um so Barry kinda leads us through with his gorgeous language, um his gift for language, and uh he leads us alongside Tennyson as he sort of navigates his way through life. Um he his home is in rural Tennessee. He makes his way to the bigger city of Nashville and he actually makes it over to Victorian England. There are some wonderful descriptions, absolutely wonderful. And actually that's one of the kinder parts of the book. He he gets a he ha has a good reception there, he's met very warmly. Um and then he makes he he goes back to uh back to the States. Um it it's a beautiful read. I can't recommend it highly enough.

David McCullagh 1:55

And as you say, it's it can be read on its own without reading everything else, but it's called The Newer World by Sebastian Barry. And I presume there'll be a waiting list in a lot of places, but you can reserve these books.

Darina Molloy 2:04

I think there will uh but you can reserve it up yeah, definitely.

Why is Sebastian Barry’s new novel ‘The Newer World’ a must‑read?

David McCullagh 2:07

Okay, Tracy, uh you have a crime uh novel first, Wild Animal by Joel Dick. Dick?

Tracy McEneaney 2:14

Yeah. This is one you would definitely recommend to your friends. A lot of people that come into Waterford Libraries at the moment take out this book and they really, really enjoy it. It's from the author of The Truth About Harry Quebec, and this was made The Truth about Harry Quebec was made into a series, and McDreamy from Grey's Anatomy played the main character in this. It is based in Geneva, it's twenty twenty. It's centered around a jewelry heist. I love a jewelry heist, a good yeah. With 20 days to go before the theft. The book has everything a good crime novel should have. They're stalking, jealousy, secrets, lies, money, and suspense. The book does the daily countdown to the heist, which I like, you know, 19 to 18 days to go, that's great.

Tracy McEneaney 3:00

You know eighteen days to go. Now it centers around two couples, Sophie and An Arpad, an attorney, and a successful banker, and they look as if they have it all. And then there's another couple, um, Greg, who works in the police and Katrine, and they on they kinda look on jealously. Um and Greg, who is in the police, becomes obsessed with Sophie. And Sophie and Arpad, they have a Dermot Bannon style house, so it's all glass and it's in the woods, and uh he goes for a walk in the woods uh every morning. Dogging with the dog and of course he's having a right I'll snoop in and uh but this is I enjoyed every minute of this book.

David McCullagh 3:36

Okay, great. That's uh Joel Dicker and it's called Wild Animal. And Dorina, you have um On the Way Out by Liam Horan and this is about Louise who's fighting to save her struggling shop and Matt, a widower clinging to the past.

Darina Molloy 3:52

Yeah, it's a it's it's a great read. Anybody who loves uh a book kind of set in rural Ireland um will will enjoy this one and the characters because you'll be turning the page and you'd really feel like you've met some of these people or you you can hear them, you know.