Playwright, novelist and master storyteller Billy Roche rang the Revelatorium red phone to tell us he’ll be reading from his revised, reissued and exquisitely designed hardback edition of Tumbling Down (Tassel Publications) at the Mill Theatre, Dundrum on Saturday (26th), and at the Winding Stair Bookshop near the Ha’penny Bridge, Thursday August 7th at 6.30.

Donning his best step-right-up stovepipe, Billy told us: “Don’t forget we’ve the festive day here in Wexford next Saturday (26th) behind the Market gates in the Bullring, beginning at 10 o’ clock in the morning. Stalls featuring bookshops and what-not and Bui Bolg and a small theatre with puppeteers and storytellers and a writer’s corner and short films and a bandstand that kicks off at lunch time with Pierce Turner followed throughout the afternoon by the wonderful Odi, Whist, Niall Colfer and his band and Chaplin at around 4.15.”

You can read our interview with Billy in the current issue of Hot Press.