Paul Lynch was asked, during an event organised in Amsterdam, to read the first paragraph of his Booker Prize-winning novel, Prophet Song. Happily obliging, he read that first paragraph: a sprawling, vivid text spanning multiple pages, setting the stage for the totalitarian version of Ireland we're about to meet, painting a picture of the moment Eilish Stack's life starts to unravel, and introducing us to his relentless style of writing. Continue reading →