The Inheritance

·         Looking East: Ireland + India, EPIC, The Irish Emigration Museum,Dublin, 23rd July -30th Nov

Leo Varadkar TD, former Taoiseach launches an exhibition looking at links between Ireland and India, including the long record of Indian migration to Ireland, alongside Cauvery who also features in portraits and video installations.

·         Writers Festival ofBelgium, 5th-6th September

·         European Writers Salon,Brussels, 13th-14th September

·         Dublinbook launch, Hodges Figgis, 19th September

·         Lopud Book Bridge Festival, Croatia, 27th-29th September

·         Irish Writers’ Weekend, British Library, London, 23rd-24th November

·         Jaipur Literary Festival, India, 30th January-3rd February

A compelling modern Irish novel taking in the complexities of religion, culture and family life in rural communities interwoven with the true history of The Long March of O'Sullivan Beara in 1601.It's 1986 and 29-year-old Marlo O'Sullivan of London-Irish stock has just found out that his sister is his mother. To steady his life, he moves to Glengarriff, to a cottage he has inherited, in the stunning Beara Peninsula. When a neighbour dies unexpectedly, Marlo takes over his minibus service to Cork. There is nothing regular about the regulars on the bus - especially Sully, a non-verbal 6 year old, who goes nowhere but does the journey back and forth every day, on his own. Marlo is landed with this a strange but compassionate arrangement, fashioned to give the child's mother respite from his care. Sully's obsession with an imaginary friend in the ancient oak forests of Glengarriff slowly unveils its terrible secrets - a 400-hundred-year-old tragedy revels itself.