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Lisa McInerney

The latest news and reviews of Lisa McInerney.

May 2021

  • Cork’s seafront at dusk.

    The Rules of Revelation by Lisa McInerney review – whatever became of the unlikable lad?

    The final volume of an Irish trilogy feels overwhelmed by its prize-winning debut

April 2020

  • Illustration: Owen Gatley

    Women's prize at 25: what it is like to win by Zadie Smith, Naomi Alderman and more

    Winning authors explain how the award changed their lives and share their favourite books by women

March 2018

  • Cork

    Made in ...
    Lisa McInerney on Cork: ‘If cities have characters then this one’s a brilliant brat’

    From student life to clubby nights out … how Cork city inspired the author to write

January 2018

  • Akira 25th Anniversary film still

    Top 10s
    Top 10 errant teenagers in fiction

    From Infinite Jest’s antsy prodigy to Brighton Rock’s haunted antihero, debut novelist Danny Denton picks the best bad girls and boys in books

May 2017

  • Lisa McInerney

    Point of view
    Don’t tell me that working-class people can’t be articulate

    Lisa McInerney
    The idea that a drug dealer must be verbally hesitant is daft – language is not a tool issued by the nobility
  • Author and novelist Kit De Waal.

    Late starters surge ahead on Desmond Elliott debut fiction prize shortlist

    Two of the three authors still in contention for the prestigious first novel award – Francis Spufford and Kit de Waal – are in their 50s
  • Lisa McInerney, the Irish writer, at the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2015. Edinburgh, Scotland. 28th August 2015<br>F4K560 Lisa McInerney, the Irish writer, at the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2015. Edinburgh, Scotland. 28th August 2015

    The Guardian Books podcast
    Writing about working class life with Lisa McInerney and Lynsey Hanley – books podcast

    Irish author McInerney talks about writing working class characters in her novel The Blood Miracles, while social historian Hanley talks about Richard Hoggart’s groundbreaking study, The Uses of Literacy

April 2017

  • Dr Suzanne O’Sullivan, Consultant neurologist, writer, at the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2015. Edinburgh, Scotland. 18th August 2015<br>F1TG3E Dr Suzanne O’Sullivan, Consultant neurologist, writer, at the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2015. Edinburgh, Scotland. 18th August 2015

    On my radar
    On my radar: Suzanne O’Sullivan’s cultural highlights

  • Howard Jacobson photographed at his home in Central London

    Critical eye
    Book reviews roundup: Jacobson’s savage satire; McInerney’s miracles; memories of Sacks

  • Lisa McInerney wins the 2016 Baileys women’s prize for fiction for The Glorious Heresies.

    Meet the author
    Lisa McInerney: ‘I’ve known people who’ve done appalling things’

  • A cruel but curiously buzzing city … Cork, Ireland.

    Book of the day
    The Blood Miracles by Lisa McInerney review – an addictive read

July 2016

  • Illustration: Asako Masunouchi at Rush Agency

    The best books for summer 2016

    From Essex serpents to chimpanzees, political satire to the best new thrillers … leading writers reveal which books they will be taking to the beach

June 2016

  • Lisa McInerney

    The week in books
    Another triumph for Ireland as Lisa McInerney wins 2016 Desmond Elliott prize

  • Lisa McInerney at the award ceremony for the Baileys Women’s prize for fiction.

    Lisa McInerney's 'astounding' debut novel wins Desmond Elliott prize

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