Award-winning author Donal Ryan, whose new book Heart, Be at Peace, is being published by Penguin on August 8, will mark the event with an appearance at the Kenny Bookshop on Friday, August 9.

The Tipperary-born writer will be in conversation with  Tomás Kenny of the bookshop about the new book, which follows his previous best-selling novels including The Spinning Heart, From a Low and Quiet Sea and The Queen of Dirt Island, among others.

The event will take place at 6pm and tickets are free but are limited.

Heart, Be at Peace is set in a small town in rural Ireland where local people have weathered the storms of economic collapse and are looking towards the future. The jobs are back and the dramas of the past are seemingly over, although the town still bears the marks of its history. And new stories are unfolding in this book which reunites readers with the 21 voices from The Spinning Heart ten years on. A new menace is creeping around the lakeshore and the lanes of the town, old grudges are festering and new ones are rising in this book, which can either be read as a sequel to The Spinning Heart or independently of it.

Donal Ryan’s work has been published in more than twenty languages to much critical acclaim. The Spinning Heart won the Guardian First Book Award, the EU Prize for Literature (Ireland), Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards, and was voted Irish Book of the Decade.

To mark the launch of Heart, Be at Peace, Kennys are also running an exclusive signed, limited edition of the book. This is already available to pre-order on kennys.ie and copies can also be bought at the bookshop on the night.

This edition is signed and numbered by Donal Ryan, it contains an exclusive short story by the author that’s not in any other edition and it has a bespoke cover.

Tickets for the event on August 9 are free but are limited, so booking is advised. They can be booked on www.kennys.ie/events or by phoning Kennys Bookshop on 091-709350 or emailing books@kennys.ie.

Pictured: Donal Ryan, pictured on a previous visit to Kennys’.