Malachi O'Doherty answers thirteen questions in a Booker's Dozen.


TPQ: What are you currently reading?

MOD: Cuckoo by Linda Anderson. 

TPQ: Best book you have ever read?

MOD: Today I would say Cuckoo by Linda Anderson. I'm impressionable that way.

TPQ: A must-read before you die?

MOD: All the books I bought and didn't get round to. Michel Tournier's Gemini is one of them.

TPQ: A preference for fact or fiction?

MOD: I want to say fiction but I read more non fiction and poetry too.

TPQ: Favourite female author?

MOD: Linda Anderson.

TPQ: Favourite male author?

MOD: I wish I could say Will Hutton but I've not read a book by him. Thomas Paul Burgess and Richard O'Rawe were the last male novelists to really excite me. If you need just one name, toss a coin.

TPQ: First book you ever read?

MOD: The Mystery of Jan Gant's Treasure.

TPQ: Favourite childhood author?

MOD: I wish I knew. The book was about a group of friends holidaying on an island. One of them invented the Seethebottomoscope

TPQ: Any book you point blank refuse to read?

MOD: No.

TPQ: Any author you point blank refuse to read?

MOD: No.

TPQ: Pick a book to give to somebody so that they would more fully understand you.

MOD: I Was A Teenage Catholic by Malachi O'Doherty. I know that sounds gratuitous but you did ask, and I did write to try to understand and explain myself.

TPQ: Last book you gave as a present?

MOD: Beatlebone by Kevin Barry - no not That Kevin Barry. 

TPQ: Book you would most like to see turned into a movie?

MOD: Northern Heist by Richard O'Rawe.

Malachi O'Doherty is a writer and Broadcaster. His latest book is Fifty Years On.

Booker's Dozen @ Malachi O'Doherty

Malachi O'Doherty answers thirteen questions in a Booker's Dozen.


TPQ: What are you currently reading?

MOD: Cuckoo by Linda Anderson. 

TPQ: Best book you have ever read?

MOD: Today I would say Cuckoo by Linda Anderson. I'm impressionable that way.

TPQ: A must-read before you die?

MOD: All the books I bought and didn't get round to. Michel Tournier's Gemini is one of them.

TPQ: A preference for fact or fiction?

MOD: I want to say fiction but I read more non fiction and poetry too.

TPQ: Favourite female author?

MOD: Linda Anderson.

TPQ: Favourite male author?

MOD: I wish I could say Will Hutton but I've not read a book by him. Thomas Paul Burgess and Richard O'Rawe were the last male novelists to really excite me. If you need just one name, toss a coin.

TPQ: First book you ever read?

MOD: The Mystery of Jan Gant's Treasure.

TPQ: Favourite childhood author?

MOD: I wish I knew. The book was about a group of friends holidaying on an island. One of them invented the Seethebottomoscope

TPQ: Any book you point blank refuse to read?

MOD: No.

TPQ: Any author you point blank refuse to read?

MOD: No.

TPQ: Pick a book to give to somebody so that they would more fully understand you.

MOD: I Was A Teenage Catholic by Malachi O'Doherty. I know that sounds gratuitous but you did ask, and I did write to try to understand and explain myself.

TPQ: Last book you gave as a present?

MOD: Beatlebone by Kevin Barry - no not That Kevin Barry. 

TPQ: Book you would most like to see turned into a movie?

MOD: Northern Heist by Richard O'Rawe.

Malachi O'Doherty is a writer and Broadcaster. His latest book is Fifty Years On.

7 comments:

  1. you may as well have interviewed a stone.

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  2. Great stuff Malachi - a lot there I have not read

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  3. Very disappointing. I was hoping for more as it seems Malachi is a vociferous reader.

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    1. I enjoyed it - there hasn't been one yet that I have not enjoyed including the bundle awaiting publication. I always find it interesting to see what people are reading

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  4. Larry Hughes Writes

    I don't know if it is office politics and covering his own back but there really isn't much of an insight here other than a recommending of books not yet read. I'm sure there's a lot more interesting about Malachi than he's putting out here.

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  5. I smiled at this.

    AM has invited me, along with the whole world, to participate. I said "I might", and with the emphasis on "I might".

    Remembering that I smiled again.

    Thank you Malachi.

    (forgive all the punctuation
    I know they're often misplaced
    and am now only hearing that it's rude)

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  6. I am pleased that peole are commenting on these. Books fascinate me as they do many of us. This being my favourite slot it is always interestung to hear what others think. As ever Larry is there when you need him!! And he did a fine one himself. Henry JOy time to get the finger out. I liked Malachi's for the same reason that I like so many others - he is a friend of mine yet his taste in literature was something I knew little of before. To me Booker's provides a public window on a personal world or literature.

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