Award-winning Irish author Joseph O’Connor will be at Kennys Bookshop on January 14th to join Tomás Kenny in conversation about his new book, The Ghosts of Rome.

This event is ticketed but spaces are limited. Tickets are free.

Joseph O’Connor is the author of the million-selling Star of the Sea, Ghost Light, Shadowplay and My Father’s House, amongst others. His work has been published in forty languages to major critical acclaim. Star of the Sea was awarded France’s Prix Millepages and the Prix Madeleine Zepter Award for European Novel of the Year as well as the Premio Acerbi in Italy. He is Frank McCourt Chair of Creative Writing at the University of Limerick where he teaches Creative Writing.

About The Ghosts of Rome:

February 1944. Six months since Nazi forces occupied Rome.

Inside the beleaguered city, the Contessa Giovanna Landini is a member of the band of Escape Line activists known as ‘The Choir’. Their mission is to smuggle refugees to safety and help Allied soldiers, all under the nose of Gestapo boss Paul Hauptmann.

During a ferocious morning air raid a mysterious parachutist lands in Rome and disappears into the backstreets. Is he an ally or an imposter? His fate will come to put the whole Escape Line at risk.

Meanwhile, Hauptmann’s attention has landed on the Contessa. As his fascination grows, she is pulled into a dangerous game with him – one where the consequences could be lethal.

A Signed and Numbered Kennys Limited Edition of the book will be available to buy on the night, and is also available to pre-order now. The edition also contains a exclusive extra content not included in any other edition.

If you have any questions on this event or would like to be notified of other events at Kennys Bookshop, please email sarah@kennys.ie.