34: New books; Lucia Berlin; Iain Crichton Smith

Send us Fan MailWe ease our way back into breakfast book chat after our summer intermission with an episode on what we read ourselves during the summer. Enda chooses Lucia Berlin's A Manual for Cleaning Women, while Peter selects Deer on the High Hills: Selected Poems by Iain Crichton Smith, edited by John Greening. We also give a shout out to this weekend's Fingal Poetry Festival and to forthcoming and recently published books such as Hugo Hamilton's The Pagesand Colm Tóibín's The Magician.No Toaster Challenge this morning as we're getting the toaster fixed, but it will be back in operation next week. Support the show