Bantry / Sunday 7 – Saturday 13 July - West Cork Music

Wednesday 10 July10.00 / Bantry House TeaRoom / €8A Jane Austen for Our TimeReading Rosamunde Pilcher’s The Shell Seekers with Sheryl CornettSheryl Cornett will speak about her essay published in the anthology The Global Jane Austen (PalgraveMacmillian, 2013). Her talk will explore why English writer Rosamunde Pilcher deserves the accolade‘A Jane Austen for Our Time’.Sheryl Cornett teaches Literature and Writing at North Carolina State University and lives in ChapelHill with her family. She writes regularly for the Southern Women’s Review, North Carolina LiteraryReview, Image, Pembroke Magazine and Mars Hill Review among other journals, magazines andanthologies. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Seattle Pacific University and isthe author of the forthcoming novella, Mourning into Dancing.11.15 / Bantry Bookshop / FREELane Ashfeldt will read from SaltWaterLane Ashfeldt is an Irish writer whose stories have appeared in anthologies and journals in Ireland andabroad. Awards include the Fish Short Histories Prize and the Global Short Stories Prize.13.00 / Bantry Library / FREEPETER MURPHY reads from Shall We Gather at the RiverPeter Murphy’s 2009 novel John the Revelator was one of the most acclaimed Irish debuts of recentyears. Hailed as ‘an absolutely wonderful novel’ by Colm Toibin and ‘a brilliant book’ by Neil Jordan, itwas short-listed for both the Costa First Novel Award and the Kerry Group Prize for Fiction. Peter is amember of the Revelator Orchestra, a spoken word/music ensemble who last year released their debutalbum The Sounds of John the Revelator and they will release The Brotherhood of the Flood, adapted fromMurphy’s second novel Shall We Gather at the River. Peter is also a freelance journalist and reporter forRTÉ’s arts review show The Works.Peter Murphy (photo: Graham Keogh)13