Part memoir, part essay, John Connell's latest memoir The Running Book explores what it is to be alive and what movement can do for a person.

It is deeply intimate and wide-ranging, local and global: Connell is as likely to write about colonialism and the effect of British imperialism in Ireland and its former colonies as he is about life on his family farm in Ballinalee, County Longford. Told in 42 chapters, each another kilometre in the 42.2k race, the whole book is 42,000 words long and it captures what it is to undertake a marathon moment by moment, in body and mind. Above all, The Running Book is a book about the nature of happiness and how for one man it came through the feet. (Pan Macmillan)

John spoke to Jack Aldane from his farm in Birchview, County Longford. He is looking forward to sushi at Yamamori in Dublin when lockdown ends in Ireland (https://yamamori.ie/).

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