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Hello, the writer Bernard McClavity has been described by critics as sitting perfectly

comfortably in the company of Yates, Joyce and Flan O'Brien,

which, if it has to be single sex, is not a bad literary boy band to be included in.

His writing career spans five decades, and in a symmetrical coincidence,

he's published five short story collections, and is writing a fifth novel

following on from titles like A Time to Dance, Grace Notes and Cal.

He's garnered numerous prizes, been shortlisted for the Booker, and won a BAFTA for his short film,

based on the Seamus Heaney poem, By Child.

Leaving his native Belfast at the height of the troubles in the mid-70s, he moved his family to Scotland,

but Northern Ireland has continued to loom large in his stories.

Now Bernard McLevety has gathered a lifetime of writing about childhood, love, memory and regret

in one voluminous tone collected stories.

Bernard, thank you for joining me to take a journey back through your 50 years of writing.

Now, this is the first time that your short stories have been gathered together in an almost

conclusive collection. Why have you decided to do it now?

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