Sebastian Barry

After being awarded the coveted Costa Book of the Year Award
earlier in the year for his incredibly moving novel The Secret
Scripture, Irish writer Sebastian Barry went on to receive the
James Tait Black Prize for Fiction too, which was announced in a
special event at the 2009 Book Festival.


This multi-talented writer (he's a poet and playwright too) reads
from his novel and chats to Diana Hope in an engrossing event.