Sara Baume
Seven Steeples by Sara Baume review – an astonishing prose poem
Two people withdraw from city life and retreat to the countryside in this tender chronicle haunted by loss
Barney Norris
06, Apr, 2022 @10:00 AM
Swansong by Kerry Andrew review – a modern folk tale
A young woman runs away to the Highlands in an enigmatic novel rich in detail and musicality
Sara Baume
07, Feb, 2018 @9:00 AM
'Women are better writers than men': novelist John Boyne sets the record straight
Male authors are always pronouncing their own brilliance – or boasting about not reading books by women. So, after a lifetime spent writing and attending literary festivals, John Boyne would like to get something off his chest …
John Boyne
12, Dec, 2017 @6:00 AM
A Line Made By Walking by Sara Baume – review
A young woman combats her depression by moving to the countryside in this finely calibrated, affecting novel
Stephanie Cross
12, Mar, 2017 @11:00 AM
A Line Made by Walking by Sara Baum; Jonathan Lethem’s The Blot; Sean Carroll’s The Big Picture
What the critics thought of A Line Made by Walking by Sara Baum; Jonathan Lethem’s The Blot; Sean Carroll’s The Big Picture
The Guardian
24, Feb, 2017 @6:00 PM
Sara Baume: ‘I always wanted to be an art monster’
The author recalls her youthful dreams of a Turner prize victory and the run-in with doctors that led to her second novel
Alex Clark
18, Feb, 2017 @12:00 PM
A Line Made By Walking by Sara Baume review – the art of falling apart
The follow-up to Spill Simmer Falter Wither is a fascinating portrait of an artist’s breakdown in rural Ireland
Lara Feigel
10, Feb, 2017 @7:30 AM
Sara Baume's 'irresistible' debut novel wins Geoffrey Faber Memorial prize
Spill Simmer Falter Wither takes award seen as a bellwether of future achievement for ‘tender and uncompromising’ debut novel
Danuta Kean
12, Dec, 2016 @4:32 PM
Why are Irish publishers shut out of the Man Booker prize?
While the award aims for ever greater inclusivity, one of the newer rules closes the competition to some of the very best writing in English
Sarah Davis-Goff
14, Sep, 2016 @8:30 AM
‘Ireland is becoming no place for the young… we need brave people willing to be bad citizens’
One hundred years on from the Easter Rising, amid economic crisis and deep uncertainty in Ireland, five young novelists offer a personal view of their homeland today
Kevin Curran, Sara Baume, Lisa McInerney, Rob Doyle, Caitriona Lally
13, Mar, 2016 @9:00 AM
Motifs, mottos and misfits shape the 2015 Costa award shortlists
A common thread runs through each of the five shortlists for this year’s Costa awards, but there’s always space for an outsider
John Dugdale
19, Nov, 2015 @4:50 PM
Costa category awards 2015: tiny presses square up to big hitters
The shortlists for the five prizes include award-winners Anne Enright and Kate Atkinson – and a gothic thriller set in Morecambe Bay, with an original print run of 300
Alison Flood
17, Nov, 2015 @7:30 PM
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