Summer Reads Media

On this page we've collected some videos and recordings we think you'll enjoy - they're all relevant to our Summer Reads authors. Follow the links beneath for a variety of readings, discussions and interviews!

Go to Simon Armitage
Go to Evie Wyld
Go to Joseph O'Connor
Go to Andrey Kurkov
Go to Katie Kitamura
Go to Robin Bayley

Simon Armitage

'Aviators'

'The English Astronaut'.

'An Accommodation'

Simon's poetry tips for National Poetry Day:

Evie Wyld

Introducing After the Fire, a Still Small Voice

Here's a reading from the novel.

Joseph O'Connor

Here's a reading from Ghost Light:

For more on Joseph O'Connor, follow these links for a TV3 appearance as well as a one to one, RTE Radio, and BBC 4 Saturday Review.

Also here's two podcasts from RTE radio about Joseph O'Connor.

Andrey Kurkov

In these two videos, Andrey Kurkov discusses the difficulties he faced when he started writing (as part of the "Born in '89" essay competition), and a collection of short stories Histories of Hope in the First Person.