Tigers in Red Weather

Liza Klaussmann

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Daisy Goodwin, The Sunday Times

This is heady, page-turning stuff - the intelligent beach read of the summer, and not a shade of grey in sight.

Liza Klaussmann's playlist

A Fort of Nine Towers

Qais Akbar Omar

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My name is Qais Akbar Omar. I am an Afghan, a Muslim, a descendant of the Prophet Mohammed, peace be upon him, a carpet maker, a journalist, a boxer who has enjoyed breaking many noses, and “Qais, the Cruel Kite Cutter.” I just turned 30 years old, and am the author of A Fort of Nine Towers. 

A life in maps

If This Is Home

Stuart Evers

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Hugo Rifkind, The Times

Evers knocks out enviably beautiful prose, and the humming, muffled, air-conditioned neverland of Las Vegas is conjured up with a captivating and woozy effect

Stuart Evers on the preoccupations of home

Benediction

Kent Haruf

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Mariella Frostrup

Perfectly formed, beautifully executed

Holt County in pictures

Robin Robertson at the Dublin Writers Festival

Friday 24th May 2013 | Event

Robin Robertson will be reading from his selected works alongside Frank McGuinness

Visiting Kent Haruf on his Home Turf in Colorado posted by Rosanna Boscawen

Wednesday 10th Apr 2013 | Blog

Huge Kent Haruf fan and journalist Max Liu went out to Colorado Springs to meet the author and explore the world of his novels with him. Here, Max recounts his trip.

Qais Akbar Omar talks about growing up in Afghanistan posted by Kate Harvey

Friday 3rd May 2013 | Blog

Qais Akbar Omar's book A Fort of Nine Towers  is at times heart-breaking and others life-affirming. 

It's a book that he never set out to get published, but which has since been translated into thirteen other languages for publication around the world. 

Listen to him talking on The Current radio station in Canada here. 

Sipping on gin, Tigers style posted by Lee Dibble

Tuesday 14th May 2013 | Blog

Most of the characters in Tigers in Red Weather love to drink. They drink to relax, drink to escape, and drink for the hell of it. Author Liza Klaussmann takes you through the steps of concocting a perfect Martha's Vineyard gin and tonic, and muses on why it might be that they do drink so very much.

Martha's Vineyard: the inspiration for Tigers in Red Weather posted by Lee Dibble

Tuesday 14th May 2013 | Blog

Imagine the feel of the sun on your skin, the smell of the trees on the air. That's what Liza Klaussmann did when writing Tigers in Red Weather, and what a result...

The Quiet American: Discovering Kent Haruf posted by Sophie Jonathan

Wednesday 10th Apr 2013 | Blog

Every time I write for the Picador blog I seem to be admitting to gross omissions in my reading. Whilst this makes for embarrassing moments in editorial meetings, it does also herald the promise of truly brilliant reading experiences. 

Holt County in Pictures posted by Rosanna Boscawen

Wednesday 10th Apr 2013 | Blog

Kent Haruf's novels Plainsong, Eventide and Benediction are set in the fictional Holt County, Colorado, based loosely on the area where Kent grew up. Though he says the landscape hasn't shaped his literary style, you can see Kent's fictional world in every one of these pictures.


All images (c) Max Liu

James Salter at the Dublin Writers Festival

Wednesday 22nd May 2013 | Event

‘Sentence for sentence, Salter is the master’ Richard Ford