About this Event
Emer McLysaght & Sarah Breen are co-authors of the Aisling series. Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling was the bestselling fiction title of 2017 in Ireland and its sequel, The Importance of Being Aisling, won the award for the best popular fiction book at the 2018 Irish Book Awards. The third book in the series, Once, Twice, Three Times an Aisling, won the same award the following year and the fourth book in the series; Aisling and the City, won again in 2021. The final book in the series, Aisling Ever After, was published in Autumn 2023 and was an instant number one bestseller. Combined, the Aisling books have sold more than 400,000 copies to date.
Their forthcoming publication Our Deadly Summer is a hilarious and heartfelt story about friendship, young women and bad men. Noughties nostalgia and a dead body, it's the novel you didn't know you needed.
Tanya Sweeney is an Irish journalist, columnist and regular contributor to radio and TV. Her personal columns focus on a variety of subjects including parenting, pregnancy, friendship, culture, and body issues. She currently works on the Weekend magazine at the Irish Independent, and her experience working in the music, film & TV industries helped inspire her debut novel, Esther is Now Following You which was an instant #1 bestseller.
Sweeney's debut novel, Esther is Now Following You is a fresh, funny and deeply affecting novel about what happens when life gets too much and what we do to cope. It combines the humour of Fleabag and Green Dot’s unattainable obsession, told with the propulsion of Baby Reindeer.
Louise O'Neill is a bestselling author from Clonakilty, West Cork. Her debut novel, Only Ever Yours, won multiple awards including the Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year and the inaugural YA Book Prize. Her second novel, Asking For It, spent 52 consecutive weeks in the Irish top 10 and was awarded the Michael L Printz honour by the American Library Association. She has since published The Surface Breaks, a feminist retelling of The Little Mermaid, and three novels for adults: Almost Love, After the Silence and Idol, which went straight into the Irish book charts at #1. Her memoir, A Bigger Life, is coming in autumn 2026.
O'Neill's latest novel Whatever Happened to Madeline Stone? unravels the dark side of childhood acting. Twins Madeleine and Chelsea Stone are joint stars of the sitcom Double Trouble, until the disappearance of Madeleine throws everything Chelsea has ever known into jeapordy. When a storage locker is found, over two decades later, containing heart-breaking truths about the year Maddie went missing, Chelsea feels a flicker of hope for the first time in twenty years. This is her chance to discover what really happened to her twin, but to follow the trail she’ll have to face the past and step back into the spotlight . . .
This evening's discussion will be hosted by Aimée Walsh. Her debut novel Exile was published by John Murray Press in May 2024. In 2023, Walsh was longlisted for the London Magazine Short Story Prize. Her short fiction, non-fiction, and book criticism has appeared in The Irish Times, The Observer, RTÉ Culture, Extra Teeth, Dazed, Refinery29 (US, Germany, Australia, and UK), and The Independent (UK, Spain, and Ireland).
This event will be followed by an audience Q&A and book signing.
Tickets: £10 General Admission / £8 Foyalty Member
Venue: The Auditorium (Level 6) at Foyles, 107 Charing Cross Road*
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Foyles, 107 Charing Cross Road, London, United Kingdom
GBP 8.00 to GBP 10.00
