Dubray are proud to present the launch of Oddbody, the remarkable new short story collection by Rose Keating. Taking place in our Waterford City Square branch, Rose will be joined by author Aingeala Flannery as they explore the bold themes of this book in an engaging and relaxed interview followed by a book signing.
Refreshments served.
Oddbody is a collection of ten bold and unsettling short stories that confront themes of desire, fear and shame, each one asking how far the bounds of the human form can be pushed, stretched - and subverted.
Through playful but provocative prose, Rose Keating traverses a realm both dreamlike and nightmarish, exposing - to the bone - the absurdities and horrors of the feminine experience. Oddbody prods a finger at societal norms, gleefully turns familiar tropes on their head and announces Keating as an audacious new voice in Irish fiction.
Rose Keating is a writer from Waterford and the recipient of multiple awards for her short fiction including The Marian Keyes Young Writer Award, The Hot Press Write Here, Write Now Prize and the Ted and Mary O'Regan Arts Bursary. She was also awarded the Malcolm Bradbury Scholarship, the Curtis Brown Prize and Agility Award from the Irish Arts Council.
Oddbody is her debut collection and available to pre-order now at Dubraybooks.ie
Aingeala Flannery is the author of The Amusements, which won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year 2023 and the John McGahern Prize. Her short stories and essays have appeared in The Irish Times, Harper’s Bazaar, Paper Visual Art, and The Winter Papers, and have been broadcast on RTÉ Radio One.