Together with The Queen’s Reading Room, we are delighted to present an evening with Colm Tóibín as we celebrate paperback publication of 
Long Island
. The sublime, long-awaited sequel to Tóibín's modern masterpiece 
Brooklyn
 finds Eilis Fiorello driven back to Ireland in the wake of shattering news. 
Long Island
 is an exquisite, exhilarating novel that asks whether it is possible to truly return to the past and renew the great love that seemed gone forever. The love story of the century.
Colm will be in conversation with the award-winning and bestselling author Tessa Hadley.
Colm Tóibín
 was born in Ireland in 1955. He is the author of eleven novels, including The Master, Brooklyn, and The Magician, and two collections of stories. He has been three times shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In 2021, he was awarded the David Cohen Prize for Literature. Tóibín was appointed the Laureate for Irish Fiction 2022-2024.
Tessa Hadley
 is the author of eight highly praised novels, 
Accidents in the Home
, which was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, 
Everything Will Be All Right
, 
The Master Bedroom
, 
The London Train
,
 Clever Girl
, 
The Past
, 
Late in the Day
, 
Free Love
 and three collections of stories, 
Sunstroke
, 
Married Love 
and 
Bad Dreams
. She won the Windham Campbell Prize for Fiction in 2016, 
The Past
 won the Hawthornden Prize for 2016, and
 Bad Dreams 
won the 2018 Edge Hill Short Story Prize. Her stories appear regularly in the New Yorker.
For this event we are partnering with 
The Queen’s Reading Room, 
which was launched by Her Majesty Queen Camilla in 2023 and is a charity working to celebrate and promote the power and benefits of reading, in the UK and beyond. The charity seeks to promote the accessibility and joy of stories and storytelling and they reach more than twelve million people in 174 countries around the world each year with free, educational content around books; as well staging major festivals and events around the UK and internationally. The charity was born from an Instagram book club launched in lockdown of 2021.
Please note: Book and ticket option includes a paperback copy of 
Long Island 
(RRP. £9.99) which will be available for collection at the event.
Information Source: Waterstones | eventbrite

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