Eimear McBride’s first novel, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing, won the Bailey’s Prize for Women’s Fiction, the first Goldsmiths Prize for experimental fiction and the Irish Novel of the Year award, covering a difficult subject in gripping prose. Her The Lesser Bohemians is set in 1990s London, where a young Irish student falls in love with an older actor. She is a naive immigrant, thrilled with her new life in the city, he is haunted by demons.

In association with Nottingham Irish Studies Group

Entry is £5, refreshments provided.