Belinda McKeon, an award-winning playwright and journalist, and worked as an arts writer for the Irish Times. McKeon has an MFA in creative writing from Columbia and lives in Brooklyn.
Posted By Rosanna Boscawen on Thursday 20th Dec 2012
Belinda McKeon's beautiful debut novel Solacewon the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book of the Year for 2011 and has been lauded by authors and critics alike. It follows the relationship of Mark Casey and Joanne Lynch, and the family feud that threatens to end their affair.
Read on for Belinda's extensive list of what's worth reading - the books, the blogs and on Twitter.
Posted By Rosanna Boscawen on Tuesday 18th Dec 2012
This year we published Suzette Field's A Curious Invitation: The Forty Greatest Parties in Literature. Parties are at the heart of literature, they're where the drama happens; this book is a compendium of who was there, what they wore, what was eaten and who said what to whom. In tribute to all the festivities in the book, we've asked our authors to tell us a little about their best parties, real and fictional.
Read extracts from Picador's featured books, including Solaceby Belinda McKeon, winner of the Irish Book of the Year 2011, and At Lastby Edward St Aubyn, the fifth novel in the critically acclaimed Patrick Melrose series.