And the good news keeps coming. Two great friends of the Allingham Festival, Tom Sigafoos and Monica Corish have both made it to the Fiction Longlist for the Carousel Awards for Irish Independent Authors, 2025, under the patronage of Paul Lynch.
Tom's Pool of Darkness: Raymond Chandler in Ireland, imagines a 1948 encounter between crime novelist Chandler and philosopher Wittgenstein in a remote corner of County Galway. As the two notoriously-reclusive men develop an unlikely friendship, they stumble into a conspiracy that involves former Nazis, the US House Un-American Activities Committee, and a cat belonging to the widow of William Butler Yeats. Novelist, Theo Dorgan describes the book as "... a gem and a joy" and we don't disagree.
We've already written about Monica's novel, “LeafLight Moon – a novel of prehistoric Ireland” which will be launched at this year's Allingham Festival on Sunday, November 9th. Final results of the CAP Awards will be announced in October so we're hoping for major celebrations.