Betimes Books is proud to announce the launch of The Red Orchestra in Blue, a powerful and timely new historical novel by acclaimed playwright, screenwriter, and director Joe O’Byrne. 📅 Date: Tuesday, May 6th, 2025🕡 Time: 6:30 PM📍 Venue: Goethe-Institut Irland, 37 Merrion Square, Dublin 2🎤 Guest of Honour: Christian Resch, Minister-Counsellor and Deputy Head … Continue reading Upcoming Book Launch: The Red Orchestra in Blue by Joe O’Byrne
Catherine Dunne’s latest conversation with Shauna Gilligan about A Good Enough Mother
Who is Catherine's favourite character in her newest novel? Which character started it all? Why is the number of chapters significant? What are her favourite books this year? Find out below: https://shaunagilliganwriter.com/2024/12/05/writers-chat-76-catherine-dunne-on-a-good-enough-mother-betimes-books-dublin-2024/?page_id=4932
From Novel to TV Series: Colin O’Sullivan recounts the memorable firsthand experience of seeing Sunny come to life
In 2018 Betimes Books published my third novel, The Dark Manual, a futuristic, Japan-set story of an Irishwoman battling against AI forces, her foe in particular a home robot which causes her endless frustration. Themes of nature versus technology, grief and isolation for an alienated foreigner captured the imagination of TV executives who have brought … Continue reading From Novel to TV Series: Colin O’Sullivan recounts the memorable firsthand experience of seeing Sunny come to life
book launch of Catherine Dunne’s new novel: A Good Enough Mother
BETTY, summer 2019
EXCERPT FROM A GOOD ENOUGH MOTHER Must be the kitchen that does it. Any kitchen. It’s really the only room in the house I feel at home in. I’ve spent most of my years in a kitchen, I suppose, one way or another. It’s one of the things that used to make Tess so furious … Continue reading BETTY, summer 2019
PRESS RELEASE: Acclaimed Irish Novelist Catherine Dunne Releases New Book: A Good Enough Mother
‘This is a nerve-jangling, urgent, brilliantly-paced novel. I read it quickly - I had to. I had to know what was going to happen, and I had to admire the craft and flair that went into its writing.’ Roddy Doyle Dublin, Ireland – Betimes Books is thrilled to announce the launch of renowned author Catherine … Continue reading PRESS RELEASE: Acclaimed Irish Novelist Catherine Dunne Releases New Book: A Good Enough Mother
Book Spotlight: Marshmallows
This month’s Spotlight read is Colin O’Sullivan’s fifth novel, Marshmallows. A mysterious three-act noir that subverts traditionally jubilant depictions of Christmas Eve, O’Sullivan’s play masked as a novel imbues the holiday season with an element of thriller, fitting as a perfect post-Halloween read on the lead up to the festive season. Centring around boyfriends Ben and David … Continue reading Book Spotlight: Marshmallows
A Foretaste of Venice
Here is an excerpt from A Long Day in Venice, published in Latin American Literature Today. Enjoy a foretaste of Venice! https://latinamericanliteraturetoday.org/2022/06/an-excerpt-from-a-long-day-in-venice-by-abel-posse-translated-by-george-henson/?fbclid=IwAR32MPS_N-Yg1vkNCfGXTx25kz3jR91jEiI6YrtHkTI-e7SBSysnvPvDQl0
Central Park West Trilogy and The Assisted Living Facility Library by Richard Kalich
A One-Winged Crow: An Interview with Dimitri Bortnikov
An interview with the author of SOUL CATCHER, published by Betimes Books.
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“What I have always found fascinating is the moment when language stops. And what obstacle can stop its flow? Only one. Death. The human verb stops before it. And that’s all. It is before Death that true art emerges. In silence… And then all gets going again, yes, and language becomes—literature.”
James Ellroy scholar Steven Powell reviews WRITE FROM WRONG
A truly wonderful new review of Craig McDonald's latest book, by an eminent British scholar! This is how it starts: "Hector Lassiter returns in dazzling form in Craig McDonald’s latest book Write From Wrong. In case you are unfamiliar with old Hec, allow me to introduce you." And this is how it ends: "A Lassiter tale is … Continue reading James Ellroy scholar Steven Powell reviews WRITE FROM WRONG
A review of “Hear Us Fade”, a new novel by David Hogan
“We are but single notes in the discord, strings plucked once, sound and resonance Hear us fade...” —From Death in Hilton Head, an unpublished epic poem by Rex Nightly It is June 2029. The state of California. In San Francisco the uncontrolled forest fires are moving closer burning all that is in its path to … Continue reading A review of “Hear Us Fade”, a new novel by David Hogan
A review of “Write from Wrong”, the latest Hector Lassiter book from Craig McDonald
Craig McDonald is the quintessential master of hard-boiled, pulp-style crime fiction, and the writer proves it once more in this fine capstone on the 20th century escapades of the man who lives what he writes, and writes what he lives, Hector Lassiter. Write from Wrong, published by Betimes Books, features chapters that the span Hector … Continue reading A review of “Write from Wrong”, the latest Hector Lassiter book from Craig McDonald
Award-winning short story by David Hogan
Congratulations to David Hogan for winning the 2nd place in the 2020 San Diego Public Library Short Story Contest! Betimes Books published Hogan’s debut novel, The Last Island, in 2013. The novel was a finalist in the San Diego Book Awards, and the e-book version was a bestseller in Australia and the U.K. Hogan's stage … Continue reading Award-winning short story by David Hogan
Excerpt from SOUL CATCHER, a novel by Dimitri Bortnikov
Translated from the French (Repas de morts) by Svetlana Pironko, in collaboration with Dimitri Bortnikov. Coming out on October 26, 2020 ...................................................“She was bringing waterlilies. From a good distance. Long stems. Long… In her mouth. She was swimming like a long replete reptile. I was making waterlily crowns. Garlands… She was wrapping herself into the … Continue reading Excerpt from SOUL CATCHER, a novel by Dimitri Bortnikov
A superlative new review of The Last Island
Reading David Hogan's wonderfully written The Last Island is like entering the waters of a warm cove on the Aegean sea and letting the ocean flow over you. Being pulled tentatively at first by its currents, but then letting go, floating in the reddish glow of fires on a distant mountain. There is so much … Continue reading A superlative new review of The Last Island
“A haunting read”
A new review of Colin O'Sullivan's novel The Starved Lover Sings by Marvin Minkler of Modern First Editions: Colin O'Sullivan is one of the most remarkable and original writers currently turning out one outstanding novel after another. Killarney Blues was the author's debut, which won the French Prix Mystère de la Critique, followed by The … Continue reading “A haunting read”
“Life at its fullest” – Marvin Minkler about “Dirty Pictures”
"Rembrandt is quoted as saying, “Without atmosphere, painting is nothing.” Without atmosphere, neither is a great novel. Patricia Ketola's debut novel, Dirty Pictures, is poetic at times, sad, humorous, gripping, joyful, thrilling, and hopeful. A thoroughly captivating tale, rich in atmosphere, that is near impossible to put down. Still recovering from the death of her … Continue reading “Life at its fullest” – Marvin Minkler about “Dirty Pictures”
“A Poet of Darkness”
We are happy and proud – overjoyed, really! – to share with you a few lines from a letter that the great American post-modernist writer Richard Kalich wrote to us and the Irish writer Colin O’Sullivan after having read his work for the first time (Colin’s novel, The Starved Lover Sings). Such an endorsement, coming … Continue reading “A Poet of Darkness”
“An intelligent novel that twists your gut.”
We are thrilled to share another wonderful new review for a 'backlist' title - a proof that great books don't have a 'use-by' date! REACH THE SHINING RIVER by Kevin Stevens in NB Magazine Stevens has written a grippingly sinister murder mystery that oozes menace and violence. Reach the Shining River captures the deeply corrupt … Continue reading “An intelligent novel that twists your gut.”
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