“I can’t think of many other writers, living or dead, who have given me so many reasons over the years to slow down on the page and pay attention” – Times Literary Supplement

One of the most revered novelists of American middle-class life, Richard Ford returns to Dublin with the fifth instalment of his Frank Bascombe series, Be Mine, a provocative and often laugh-out-loud funny reckoning with mortality and happiness.

A writer with Irish ancestry and a deep love of the country’s capital, Richard Ford displays the prose, wit, and intelligence that make him one of our most acclaimed living writers. Be Mine is a profound, funny, poignant love letter to our beleaguered world.

Beginning with The Sportswriter, a story drawing partly from his own experiences at New York magazine Inside Sports, Richard Ford has built his career around the life and times of American everyman Frank Bascombe, an astute, provocative and often hilarious guide through the late twentieth century.

In conversation with bestselling author, journalist and broadcaster, Edel Coffey.
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Richard Ford was born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1944. He has published seven novels and three collections of stories. His novel Independence Day was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the first time the same book had won both prizes.