World Book Day

ONE MYSTERY, ONE TOWN

I was delighted to have my novel The Case of the Vanishing painting chosen by Edgeworthstown Library for their One Mystery, One Town project, whereby the whole town read the same book over the course of several weeks

This was a highly imaginative undertaking, lead by librarian Kim Taylor, and teacher Enda Ward.

Students from St Mary’s National School created artwork and book covers inspired by the novel as well as creating fictitious newspaper pages dealing with incidents in the book, while some inventive students even created a board game based on The Case of the Vanishing Painting.

The project was covered by RTE News both on TV and radio on World Book Day and was really successful in making reading into a fun-filled activity.

World Book Day Event

Brian was joined by authors Steve Butler, Sibeal Pounder, Jonathan Meres and Shane Hegarty for the launch of World Book Day in Liberty Hall, Dublin.

Hundreds of children converged on the theatre in Liberty Hall for photographs, book signings, readings and talks by the authors.

Steve gave a hilarious account of his own childhood, Sibeal dressed volunteers from the audience as witches, Shane spoke about his Darkmouth series of books, Jonathan played the guitar, and Brian read the opening scene from his World Book Day novel, One Good Turn.

Afterwards all of the authors met the children, and the event was filmed by RTE and shown on News2Today.

Brian on stage, Liberty Hall Brian reads from One Good Turn Brian, Steve Butler, Jonathon Meres, Sibeal Pounder and Shane Hegarty