What is it about Irish storytelling: that combination of poetry and pain, brutality and a wicked laugh or ten? All that lyrical toughness, and a sense of a history punctuated by a drumbeat of violence, is on display in Audrey Magee's novel, The Colony. A conversation with Kate Evans

Other books and writers mentioned in this conversation:

Emily Dickinson, works

Marcel Proust, works

James Joyce, works

Colette, works

Peig: The autobiography of Peig Sayers

William Butler Yeats, works