Borderlines: Eoin McNamee, Neil Hegarty & Anthony Quinn

Date Saturday 16 June 2018
Time 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Price£6 | £4
VenueThe Crescent
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Borderlines: Eoin McNamee, Neil Hegarty & Anthony Quinn

Join Eoin McNamee, Neil Hegarty and Anthony Quinn as they discuss the hidden histories of their native places and how fiction can deepen the mystery of Northern Ireland's landscapes and its past.

Born in Warrenpoint, novelist and scriptwriter Eoin McNamee is the author of the Booker nominated The Blue Tango, and Blue Is The Night, which won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year.

Neil Hegarty grew up in Derry. His debut novel Inch Levels was shortlisted for the Kerry Group novel of the year award; non-fiction titles include The Story Of Ireland, The Secret History Of Our Streets and Frost: That Was The Life That Was, the authorised biography of David Frost.

Based in County Tyrone, Anthony J Quinn's debut novel Disappeared was picked by the Sunday Times as one of its Books of the Year. His crime novels have been shortlisted for awards in the UK and the US. The paperback version of his latest critically acclaimed novel Undertow was published on the 1st June.


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