Rónán Hession, writer of Leonard & Hungry Paul and Ghost Mountain

Name: Rónán Hession, writer of Leonard & Hungry Paul and Ghost Mountain
Start: 2026-03-14T19:00:00+00:00
Location: St Peter's School, Memorial Hall, Clifton, YO30 6AB

Schedule

Sat, 14 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

St Peter's School, Memorial Hall, Clifton, YO30 6AB | York, EN

The festival is very excited to welcome Rónán Hession to a headline event at St Peter’s School, Memorial Hall on 14 March 2026 in conversation about writing, adaptation and his 2024 novel Ghost Mountain.
His debut novel, Leonard and Hungry Paul, was adapted for BBC television in autumn 2025 starring Alex Lawther and Laurie Kynaston. The narrator of the show was none other than Julia Roberts who loved the novel so much that she personally got in touch with Rónán.
The novel was also chosen by the Sunday Times and the Irish Times as one of the 50 Great Irish Novels of the 21st Century alongside nominations for a host of literary prizes. His most recent novel Ghost Mountain, is a folk tale featuring a mountain that appeared yesterday, changing the lives of the local people; the town drunk, a retired teacher and her dog, a young soul and his wife, an old soul. It is a story about all that is unmistakable present yet never truly fathomable in our lives.