Una Mannion

Burning Books Ireland

Author Una Mannion talks about Pippi Longstocking, Anne Carson, and the distillation and immediacy of the short story as she tells Ruth McKee which books she would save if her house was on fire.

Una Mannion’s first novel, A Crooked Tree, was published in 2021. Her latest book, Tell Me What I Am, is out now with Faber.

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