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Book Launch- “Innocents” (Cathal Gunning)
September 30, 2017 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
The Gallery Wine, Tapas Bar & Live Music Venue, 5pm
24 year old Westport native Cathal Gunning’s debut novel, ‘Innocents’, will be published this year by Solstice Publishing. Excerpts from ‘Innocents’ have been short-listed for the 2015 Maeve Binchy Award and the Cuttyhunk Island Writer’s Residency.
A boy, a girl, a crowded dance floor, a drink or two too many…Ten years later they’re getting married—not necessarily to each other. Irish author Cathal Gunning’s debut novel, Innocents, is a tragic-comic love story spanning a decade of the ups and downs of falling in and out of love in Dublin city.
Find out more at his book launch in The Gallery Wine, Tapas Bar and Live Music Venue.
Innocents is available as an e-book from Solstice Publishing, Kindle, Barnes and Noble, and Amazon-
Born in Blackrock in 1993, Cathal now splits his time between Dublin and Mayo. He contributed “Malahide” to online collective ‘Snakes of Various Consistency’ and is an editor and co-founder of the online poetry, non-fiction, and literature collective ‘Cold Coffee Stand’ (www.coldcoffeestand.com).
His story “Hearts/Sinews” was short-listed for the Hennessy New Irish Writing competition and his poetry has been published in The Rose Magazine (‘Hark’, Issue 4). He has stories, forthcoming in Tales From the Forest (“Trinkets”, October 1) and the collection “From the Candy Store to the Galtymore” (“Strike Up”, October 5, Ballpoint Press). His debut novel ‘Innocents’ was published by Solstice on September 27th. Excerpts from ‘Innocents’ have been short-listed for the 2015 Maeve Binchy Award and the Cuttyhunk Island Writer’s Residency.
An excerpt from “Innocents” entitled ‘The War on Good Taste’ is currently available to read online on Cold Coffee Stand-
http://coldcoffeestand.com/the-war-on-good-taste-excerpt-from-innocents-cathal-gunning/
