Award winning Irish author Mike McCormack will be at Kennys Bookshop on October 17th, where he will join author Lisa McInerney in conversation to celebrate the launch of his new novel, This Plague of Souls, published by Tramp Press.

This Plague of Souls follows a man named Nealon, recently released from jail, who returns to his family home in the West of Ireland only to find an empty house. It seems the world has forgotten that he even existed. The one exception is a persistent caller on the telephone, someone who seems to know everything about Nealon’s life, his confusing bother with the law and, more importantly, what has happened to his family. All Nealon needs to do is talk with the stranger.

Mike McCormack is an Irish novelist and short-story writer who has published two collections of short stories – Getting It In the Head and Forensic Songs – and three novels, Crowe’s Requiem, Notes from a Coma and Solar Bones. He lives in Galway. In 1996 he was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for Getting it in the Head and in 2007 he was awarded a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship. In 2016, Solar Bones won the Goldsmiths Prize and was BGE Irish Book of the Year, and in 2017 was longlisted for the Man Booker prize.

Kennys are delighted to have a Limited Edition of This Plague of Souls available. Priced at €20, the book is already available to order on kennys.ie and copies will be available to purchase on the night. This edition is signed and numbered by Mike McCormack and is the only hardback edition of the book.