Billy O'Callaghan's new top-selling novel, Life Sentences, Jan 2021, is the sweeping and immersive story of one ordinary family in Ireland, and their extraordinary journey over three generations and more than a century of famine, war, violence and love.

His writing is imbued with truth and lived experience – creating a novel so rich in life and empathy it is impossible to let go of his characters. Billy will be in conversation with acclaimed author Paul McVeigh.

Speakers

Billy O’Callaghan Billy O’Callaghan is an Irish short fiction writer and novelist from Cork.

Paul McVeigh Paul McVeigh has written comedy, essays, a novel, plays and short stories, and his work has been performed on radio, stage and television, and published in seven languages.