#38 Marching To Her Own Beat

03/10/22 • 41 min

“The past is never dead. It’s not even past,” said William Faulkner – and the past is ever-present, but with a twist, in Rosemary Jenkinson’s short story collection Marching Season. The Belfast playwright and short story writer tackles rioting, bonfires to mark the Twelfth of July, TED talks, and one-night-stands and threesomes in her no-holds-barred stories. Here, Rosemary also reflects on the numbing effect of cancel culture and discusses her own experience. Marching Season is published by Arlen House

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#37 Breaking Point: Burned Out and Bottoming Out

Everyone is talking about Edel Coffey’s debut novel which deals with Forgotten Baby Syndrome, every exhausted-by-the-juggle parent’s nightmare. Breaking Point tells of a high-powered career woman who accidentally leaves her baby in the car on a boiling hot day – with tragic consequences. Amid the guilt and grief, she is put on trial for manslaughter. Inspired by a true story. For more on Breaking Point: https://vip7.hachette.co.uk/?s=breaking+point+edel+coffey

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#39 Gen Z Surfers On Social Media Sharkfest

If you think you’re obsessed with being online, you should meet the characters in début author Catherine Prasifka’s novel None of This Is Serious.

Her book deals with the preoccupations of Gen Z, coming of age right now. Despite their shiny new lives, they fear a lifetime of being locked out of home ownership, and worry about whether the planet can survive. Above all, they think long periods interacting with social media platforms is time well-spent.

“We’ve only had the internet for thirty years and we’ve only had the social internet for half of that time," says Catherine. "And we’re not good at using it, and we don’t know how it works, and there’s no possible way to predict how it’s affecting people who’ve grown up with it – this idea that you can be contactable at any time, and you can get insights into your friends’ lives that they’re not directly telling you.”

None of This Is Serious by Catherine Prasifka is published by Canongate

For more on the novel: https://canongate.co.uk/books/3939-none-of-this-is-serious/