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The PromptEmbarrassmentGuest Writer: Caoilinn Hughes Featuring new writing by Deborah Meltvedt, JL Bogenschneider, and Sue TurbettSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.2025-06-2226 min
The CurrentReady for a summer read? We asked the professionals for their picksNothing beats a good book, especially at the cottage, by the pool — or even quietly at home with the kids away at camp. We ask two professional book lovers to share their tips for the best books of the summer, from beach reads and blockbusters to novels from Canada’s finest.Ann Shea, from Mill Street Books in Almonte, Ont., chose One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune, The Alternatives by Caoilinn Hughes, How to Survive a Bear Attack by Claire Cameron, The Mind Mappers by Eric Andrew-Gee and My Friends by Fredrik Backman.2025-06-0316 min
The Dust JacketThe Alternatives, by Caoilinn HughesWe discuss The Alternatives by the Irish author Caoilinn Hughes. We talk why it got such low ratings on Goodreads, why we disagree with those ratings, and why Irish books are great.
Also, no spoilers!2025-05-0226 min
Library TalksCaoilinn Hughes with Brandon Taylor: The AlternativesCaoilinn Hughes joins fellow author Brandon Taylor to discuss her latest book, The Alternatives, a story of four brilliant Irish sisters, orphaned in childhood, who scramble to reconnect when the oldest disappears into the Irish countryside.2025-01-0754 min
Books On The GoEp 276: Best Books of 2024 Anna, Annie and Amanda reveal our favourite reads of 2024! Books discussed: MAGIC PILL by Johann Hari ALL THE BEAUTY IN THE WORLD by Patrick Bringley THE ALTERNATIVES by Caoilinn Hughes THIS STRANGE AND EVENTFUL HISTORY by Claire Messud RAPTURE by Emily Maguire WOO WOO by Ella Baxter THE GENTLEMAN FROM PERU by André Aciman JUICE by Tim Winton (Annie recommends the audiobook) INTERMEZZO by Sally Rooney QUESTION 7 by Richard Flanagan THE WYCH ELM by Tana F...2024-12-1438 min
The Silver ScreamThe Beast Within (2024)More like...The Bast Without...excitement! Welcome to The Silver Scream, a podcast where two friends are watching every werewolf movie ever, even the ones that make us want to fall asleep. This week, we watched the 2024 release The Beast Within starring Kit Harrington and Caoilinn Springall. This is a slowburn (emphasis on slow, emphasis on burn!) about a bad dad who might be a werewolf? Maybe? We watched to find out! Other topics of discussion include: The Wicked movie, The People's Joker, and the fun of a good cowboy romance story. All that and...2024-11-2739 min
Books Are My PeopleReimagining the PastA.D. Rhine - the pseudonym for co-authors Ashlee Cowles and Danielle Stinson are here to discuss their latest novel, Daughters of Bronze, a retelling of Homer's Iliad from the women who were there. This episode is sponsored by Out Like A Lion by Tracey L. ThompsonBooks Recommended:Horses of Fire by A.D. RhineDaughters of Bronze by A.D. RhineA Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: a Diary by AnonymousJames by Percival EverettVersailles by Katheryn Davis2024-11-2536 min
The Arts Council PodcastThe Art of Reading Book Club with Colm Tóibín | Episode 33: 'The Alternatives' by Caoilinn HughesThe October Art of Reading book club features Laureate for Irish Fiction Colm Tóibín in conversation with writer Caoilinn Hughes about her novel ‘The Alternatives’.
“Caoilinn Hughes’s novel deals with the lives of four brilliant sisters, lives that have been deeply scarred by the death of their parents. As Hernan Diaz has written, this is ‘a tale about sisterhood, a novel of ideas, a chronicle of our collective follies, a requiem for our agonizing species… in a prose full of gorgeous surprises…glows with intelligence, compassion, and beauty.’” — Colm Tóibín
Learn more about the Art of Reading Book Club and...2024-10-3146 min
Books with BetsyEpisode 22 - A Little Bit of Everything with Leah @DishingonBooksOn this episode, Leah, @Dishingonbooks on Instagram, and I discuss our shared love of intense reads, how to find more books that open up the world, and her love for the Women’s Prize. We also give a lot of recommendations for books that are not for everyone but hit both of us in just the right spot.
Books mentioned in this episode:
What Betsy’s reading:
I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones
Orbital by Samantha Harvey
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival, and Hope in a...2024-10-071h 02
Read ThisCaoilinn Hughes Is Barely Patient Enough to WriteCaoilinn Hughes is an Irish poet and writer whose debut novel Orchid And The Wasp was published in 2018 to rave reviews. Her third and latest novel, The Alternatives, might be her best yet, and this week she sits down with Michael to discuss it. Reading list:Gathering Evidence, Caoilinn Hughes, 2014Orchid And The Wasp, Caoilinn Hughes, 2018The Wild Laughter, Caoilinn Hughes, 2020The Alternatives, Caoilinn Hughes, 2024Enter Ghost, Isabella Hammad, 2023Long Island Compromise, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, 2024You can find these books and all the others we mentioned at your favourite independent book store. Socials: Stay in touch with Re...2024-09-0430 minBooks Are My PeopleSome Favorite Summer ReadsI read 40 books this summer! On episode 130, I share some of my favorites. This episode of Books Are My People is sponsored by Darrin Doyle’s Let Gravity Seize the Dead. Books Recommended:This Strange Eventful History by Claire MessudBear by Julia Phillips Cutting for Stone also by Abraham VergheseLula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten MillerThe Winner by Teddy WayneEnter my Anita De Monte's Last Laugh book giveaway here on Instagram. Read Caoilinn Hughes' The Alternatives with me on S...2024-09-0215 min
Books On The GoEp 267: The Alternatives by Caoilinn HughesAnna and Annie discuss the Booker Prize 2024 Longlist. Our book of the week is THE ALTERNATIVES by Caoilinn Hughes. We loved this Irish novel about four eccentric sisters each grappling with their dysfunctional family in different ways. Gripping, humane and funny, we highly recommend this one. Coming up: WOO WOO by Ella Baxter. Follow us: Email: booksonthegopodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @ abailliekaras and @mr_annie Credits Artwork: Sascha Wilkosz 2024-08-2816 min
HarperCollins PublishersModerate to Poor, Occasionally Good, By Eley Williams, Read by Kit GriffithsA Granta Best Young British Novelist
'A thrilling love for the stuff of language … Magical' JON McGREGOR
‘Poignant and playful’ DAILY MAIL
‘A writer with few real rivals’ IRISH TIMES
'A visionary writer' JAN CARSON
The stunning new collection of stories from the award-winning author of The Liar’s Dictionary and Attrib. and Other Stories.
Granta Best Young British novelist and acclaimed author of Attrib. and other stories, Eley Williams returns with a thrilling collection of short stories exploring the nature of relationships both intimate and transient – from the easy gamesmanship of contagious yawns to the horror of a smile fixed for just...2024-08-1204 min
Flix ForumThe Midnight SkyListen along as we discuss Netflix’s three hundred and twenty-sixth film, the 2020 science fiction film ‘The Midnight Sky’ directed by George Clooney starring George Clooney, Felicity Jones, David Oyelowo, Tiffany Boone, Demian Bichir, Kyle Chandler and Caoilinn Springall.
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Literati GlitteratiThe Alternatives by Caoilinn HughesOn this weeks episode of Literati Glitterati, Irish author Caoilinn Hughes is on to talk about her new book, The Alternatives. Caoilinn says there’s a little bit of her in all her characters, but in this conversation she talks about the way she employed her friends expertise to form complex and fully fleshy characters. The novel (written without drafts if you can believe it) is about adult siblings, and the dynamics of sisters as they grow up together without parental guidance. And according to Mel, The Alternatives gives the reader “ideas on how to cope...2024-07-2452 min
Enjoy Amazing Full Audiobooks in Literature, Literary FictionModerate to Poor, Occasionally Good by Eley WilliamsPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684221to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Moderate to Poor, Occasionally Good
Author: Eley Williams
Narrator: Kit Griffiths
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 5 hours 6 minutes
Release date: July 18, 2024
Genres: Literary Fiction
Publisher's Summary:
A Granta Best Young British Novelist 'A thrilling love for the stuff of language … Magical' JON McGREGOR ‘Poignant and playful’ DAILY MAIL ‘A writer with few real rivals’ IRISH TIMES 'A visionary writer' JAN CARSON The stunning new collection of stories from the award-winning author of The Liar’s Dictionary and Attrib. and Other Stories. Granta Best Young British novelist and acclaimed author of Attrib. and...2024-07-185h 06Get Latest Full Audiobooks in Literature, Short StoriesModerate to Poor, Occasionally Good by Eley WilliamsPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684221to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Moderate to Poor, Occasionally Good
Author: Eley Williams
Narrator: Kit Griffiths
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 5 hours 6 minutes
Release date: July 18, 2024
Genres: Short Stories
Publisher's Summary:
A Granta Best Young British Novelist 'A thrilling love for the stuff of language … Magical' JON McGREGOR ‘Poignant and playful’ DAILY MAIL ‘A writer with few real rivals’ IRISH TIMES 'A visionary writer' JAN CARSON The stunning new collection of stories from the award-winning author of The Liar’s Dictionary and Attrib. and Other Stories. Granta Best Young British novelist and acclaimed author of Attrib. and...2024-07-185h 06
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Books On The GoEp 266: Best Books of the Year So FarAnna and Annie discuss the 2024 Women's Prize winners. We reveal our best books of 2024 so far. Our favourite reads are: THE ALTERNATIVES by Caoilinn Hughes HOME READING SERVICE by Fabio Morábito translated by Curtis Bauer NOT THE END OF THE WORLD by Hannah Ritchie THUNDERHEAD by Miranda Darling REAL AMERICANS by Rachel Khong THE SQUARE OF SEVENS by Laura Shepherd-Robinson Follow us! Instagram: @mr_annie and @abailliekaras Email: booksonthegopodcast@gmail.com Credits Artw...2024-06-2528 min
bookfareBook Review: Live By Night by Dennis LehaneIn this episode, Kat and Ashley discuss Dennis Lehane's noir thriller, Live By Night. Books mentioned in order of appearance: None of This Is True by Lisa Jewel The Loneliness Files by Athena Dixon The Alternatives by Caoilinn HughesVirgin Suicides by Jeoffrey Eugenedes Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls WilderThe Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Passing by Nella Larsen Next month's book: Same As It Ever Was by Claire Lombardo2024-06-201h 01Books Are My PeopleThe Sandwich Generation and Book RecommendationsOn episode 128 I speak with author Catherine Newman about summer hair, humor as survival strategy and Catherine’s previous job working in a sandwich shop. This episode of Books Are My People is sponsored by Let Gravity Seize the Dead by Darrin Doyle. Sandwich by Catherine NewmanWe All Want Impossible Things by Catherine NewmanBooks Recommended:Quietly Hostile by Samantha IrbyWeekends with O’Keeffe by C.S. MerrillWent to London, Took The Dog: A Memoir Nina StibbeMother Doll by Katya...2024-06-1723 minLibrary TalksColm Tóibín with Caoilinn Hughes: Long IslandIn this episode of Library Talks, Colm Tóibín sits down with Irish writer Caoilinn Hughes to discuss his latest book, Long Island, which takes place twenty years after the events of his bestselling and beloved novel Brooklyn.2024-06-1156 min
bookfareSummer PreviewKatherine and Ashley discuss their current reads, book news, most anticipated summer releases, and their summer reading plans.
Books mentioned in order:
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
The House of Fortune by Jessie Burton
You'd Look Better as a Ghost by Joanna Wallace
The Loneliness Files by Athena Dixon
Love & Salt by Amy Andrews and Jessica Mesman Griffith
The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright
Whale Fall by Elizabeth O'Connor
The Alternatives by Caoilinn Hughes
Live by Night by Denis Lahane
Little Rot by Awaeke Emezi
Parade by Rachel Cusk
Same As It Ever Was by Claire Lombardo2024-06-0644 min
The Stinging Fly PodcastCaoilinn Hughes Reads Emma Devlin (Live at Cúirt 2024)On this month’s episode, host Nicole Flattery is joined by writer Caoilinn Hughes to read and discuss Emma Devlin’s short story, ‘The Gift’ originally published in Issue 49 Volume 2, Winter 2023-4. This episode was recorded in front of a live audience as part of Cúirt International Festival of Literature 2024. Please note: there are some brief moments of distortion in the recording of the conversation due to a technical fault with equipment we had on the day. Apologies for this.
Caoilinn Hughes is the author of The Wild Laughter, which won the Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Award...2024-05-271h 02
NPR's Book of the Day'The Alternatives' is a novel about grief, sisterhood and working womenCaoilinn Hughes' novel The Alternatives revolves around the four Flattery sisters, each with a more impressive career or degree than the last, all with a profound grief for the parents they lost at a young age. When one of the sisters purposely goes off the grid, the other three are reunited in the Irish countryside in an attempt to find her. In today's episode, NPR's Andrew Limbong asks Hughes about crafting the witty dialogue between the sisters, writing side characters that jump off the page and getting feedback from her own siblings. To listen to Book of the...2024-05-2007 min
Doctor Who: Tin Dog PodcastTDP 1262: Disney Who Boom #Doctorwho Boom is the third episode of of . It was released on May 17 2024 on Disney+ and is set to be released on May 18 2024 on BBC One. Contents Synopsis Caught in the middle of a devastating war on Kastarion 3, the Doctor is trapped when he steps on a landmine. Can he save himself, Ruby, and the entire planet - without moving? Plot The Doctor and Ruby land upon a planet engulfed by warfare. As the doctor pokes his head out of the tardis whilst Ruby is getting ready, he hears trouble, grabs his coat, and runs out to save the day... except maybe...2024-05-1810 min
Get Lost In Your Day With A Addictive Full Audiobook.The Alternatives: A Novel by Caoilinn HughesPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702359to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Alternatives: A Novel
Author: Caoilinn Hughes
Narrator: Liam Heslin, Dominique Mcelligott, Aisling Franciosi, Caoilinn Hughes, Sarah Bolger, John Keating
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 56 minutes
Release date: April 16, 2024
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2
Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1
Genres: Drama
Publisher's Summary:
“A bold, beautiful, complex novel, and I can’t wait to read what Hughes writes next. She, too, is an unstoppable force.” —New York Times Book Review “A tale about sisterhood, a novel of ideas, a chronicle of our collective follies, a requiem for our agonizing...2024-04-1610h 56
All the Books!New Releases and More for April 16, 2024This week, Liberty and Emily discuss You Know What You Did, Indian Burial Ground, Immortal Pleasures, and more great books!Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a book.Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news.Looking to elevate your reading life? Tailored Book Recommendations is here to help with handpicked recommendations. Tell the Bibliologists at Tailored Book Recommendations about what you love and what you don't. You can get your recommendations via email or receive hardcovers or paperbacks...2024-04-1646 min
Discover Top Full Audiobooks in Fiction, DramaThe Alternatives: A Novel by Caoilinn HughesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702359 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Alternatives: A Novel Author: Caoilinn Hughes Narrator: Liam Heslin, Dominique Mcelligott, Aisling Franciosi, Caoilinn Hughes, Sarah Bolger, John Keating Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 56 minutes Release date: April 16, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “A bold, beautiful, complex novel, and I can’t wait to read what Hughes writes next. She, too, is an unstoppable force.” —New York Times Book Review “A tale about sisterhood, a novel of ideas, a chronicle of our collective follies, a requiem for our agoniz...2024-04-1610 min
The BookshelfA never before published novel from Charmian CliftCassie, Tom Wright and guests look at The End of the Morning, the never-before-published novel by the Australian writer Charmian Clift, who died in 1969. Plus, The Alternatives by Ireland’s Caoilinn Hughes, and Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange, about the consequences of colonisation and the forced assimilation of Native Americans, which is already generating high praise.BOOKSThe End of the Morning, Charmian Clift (New South)Wandering Stars, Tommy Orange (Penguin Random House)The Alternatives, Caoilinn Hughes (A&U)GUESTSNicole Abadee, Books writer, podcaster and...2024-04-1254 min
Cool Story with Bri & BridieThe End of Cool StoryThis week there is a huge and sad announcement, Bri makes an uncharacteristic mistake and Bridie and Bri go through the reading cornerstones of their lives at 5, 25 and 35. Thank you so much to our listeners for all of your support over the journey of Cool Story. It is with heavy hearts that we have to say goodbye, but stay subscribed to the feed as you never know what the future may hold. Books referenced int his episode: Babysitters little sister series by Ann M Martin The House of Spirits by Isabel...2024-03-1752 min
Youth View: A podcast by Skilled CreativeParents Parenting [TLSC 1]YOUTH VIEW: a podcast by Skilled Creative
On this week's episode our hosts from The Entrance Campus came together to talk PARENTS PARENTING. Your hosts this week are Jess, Caoilinn, Isaac, Katie and Ricki,
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Access Top-Rated Full Audiobooks in Literature, Literary FictionWitness by Jamel BrinkleyPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616775to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Witness
Author: Jamel Brinkley
Narrator: Greg Lockett
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 8 hours 19 minutes
Release date: August 1, 2023
Genres: Literary Fiction
Publisher's Summary:
‘Brinkley’s sentences are daggers’ RAVEN LEILANI ‘Extraordinary … moving, compelling and virtuosic’ OBSERVER ‘A triumph’ COLIN BARRETT An electric collection of stories set in contemporary New York, from the award-winning author of A Lucky Man and National Book Award finalist, Jamel Brinkley. What does it mean to take action? To bear witness? What does it cost? These stories take us into the heart of contemporary New York City and its resident...2023-08-018h 19
Ignite Your Imagination With Spoken Tales With Full AudiobookWitness Audiobook by Jamel BrinkleyListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 616775
Title: Witness
Author: Jamel Brinkley
Narrator: Greg Lockett
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8:19:11
Language: English
Release date: 08-01-23
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, General
Summary:
Brinkleys sentences are daggers RAVEN LEILANI
Extraordinary moving, compelling and virtuosic
OBSERVER
A triumph COLIN BARRETT
An electric collection of stories set in contemporary New York, from the award-winning author of A Lucky Man and National Book Award finalist, Jamel Brinkley.
What does it mean to take action? To bear witness? What does it cost?
These stories take us into...2023-08-018h 19
Women in Film and TV PodcastWFT Online Discussion: Autism and Making FilmsHow can Neurodiversity enrich our industry? What does an inclusive set really look like? In the latest WFT Podcast, WFT Vice-Chair and DOP Jaro Waldeck was chatting with Anna Czarska and Caoilinn Handley about autism as well as the importance of making authentic films with autistic filmmaking talent in front and behind the camera.
This event has been made possible with the support of the BAI.
Caoilinn Handley
Caoilinn is an autistic activist and film producer from Dublin, Ireland. She currently works as a Junior Producer in MK1Studios Productions across a range of international co-productions. Caoilinn is also developing...2022-08-151h 32
The Irish Itinerary Podcast32. Caoilinn Hughes in conversation with Chris Cusack (14 April 2022)In her conversation with Chris Cusack, Caoilinn Hughes reads her poem ‘The Party Faithful’ and discusses being a slow reader and a monotasker and how this has influenced her journey from poetry to prose and makes her a writer of sentences, who favours participation and reciprocity in her relationship to the reader. Among other things, she talks about the similarities in the work of scientists and artists; the themes of family and love that pervade her work; the mislabelling of her first, picaresque, novel Orchid & the Wasp (2018); her tragic, very good-looking characters; the ending of The Wild Laughter (2020); the impo...2022-04-1441 min
Books for Breakfast45: Wendy Erskine; Ukrainian poetrySend us a textOn this morning's show we talk to Wendy Erskine, whose second collection of short stories, Dance Move, has just been published by The Stinging Fly. And we feature two Ukrainian poems: 'Crow, Wheels' by Lyuba Yakimchuk, with permission from Words without Borders where it first appeared, and Ilya Kaminsky's 'We Lived Happily During the War' from his acclaimed collection Deaf Republic. Praise for Wendy Erskine's work:‘I found Dance Move to be a profound, moving and brilliant collection of short stories.’—Adrian Duncan‘Wendy Erskine writes a damn good story...2022-03-2436 min