Life on the Fringes: Eoin McNamee & Darran Anderson

Don’t miss this genre-bending discussion with two of Ireland’s most exciting writers.

In Eoin McNamee’s novel, The Bureau (Quercus, 2025), there’s illicit cash travelling across the border and Brendan's backstreet Bureau de Change is the place to launder it.

Darran Anderson’s memoir, Inventory (Vintage, 2020), is a family portrait of Derry, from his grandfathers who lived on the fringes of legality to his father who survived the violence of the Troubles.

Join us on a journey through Ireland’s lawless borderlands, where fact and fiction are blurred, and anything could happen… 

Eoin McNamee is the author of eight novels including The Bureau (Quercus, 2025), Resurrection Man, later filmed, and the Blue Trilogy. His work has been nominated for and won many major prizes including the Man Booker Prize, the Gordon Burn Prize, the Kerry Fiction Prize, the Imison Award and the CWA Steel Dagger. Liam McIllvaney said of McNamee's prose that it has the 'cadenced majesty of McCarthy or DeLillo, but the vision it enacts is all his own.' Most recently, Eoin was part of the writers room for Netflix’s Vikings Valhalla series.

Darran Anderson is the author of Inventory, Imaginary Cities, and the forthcoming book on empire In the Lands of My Enemy. He writes primarily on the themes of cities, the future, emerging technologies, the relationship between politics and culture, and legacies of conflict and division. He's worked on urban projects across Europe and Asia, has given talks at the likes of the Venice Biennale, Oxford University and the V&A, and is a recipient of a Windham Campbell Non-Fiction Award from Yale University. He is Derry-born and London-based.