Meet Colm Tóibín: Long Island Signing

Meet Colm Tóibín, one of the world’s finest writers, author of The Blackwater Lightship and The Magician, at Foyles Charing Cross Road as he signs and dedicates copies of Long Island, his beautiful sequel to Brooklyn.

In Tóibín’s latest work we are reunited with Eilis Lacey, the heroine of Brooklyn, twenty years on, in the 1970s, living with her husband, Tony Fiorello, and her children in a house in Long Island. A shocking piece of news propels Eilis back to Ireland, to a world she thought she had long left behind.

Colm Tóibín was born in Ireland in 1955. He is the author of eleven novels and two collections of stories. He has been three times shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In 2021, he was awarded the David Cohen Prize for Literature. Tóibín was appointed the Laureate for Irish Fiction 2022-2024.

Your ticket includes a copy of the Long Island and reserves your place in the queue to meet Colm Tóibín.

Please arrive at Foyles Charing Cross Road by 11:50am to guarantee your book gets signed.

Image Credit: Brigitte Lacombe

Host or Publisher Foyles Bookshop, 107 Charing Cross Road