






MICHAEL FAULKNER

THE BLUE CABIN
Living by the tides on Islandmore
STILL ON THE SOUND
A seasonal look at island life
Welcome to the website of author
BOOKS ON ISLAND LIFE AND STRANGFORD LOUGH
Island life & Strangford Lough
8pm: Lisburn Library, Big Big Reading Group: slides and talk
Wild Geese Festival, Strangford: details tbc
Probus Group, Belfast: slides and talk
Seaforde WI: slides and talk
Senior Citizens Group, Clough: slides and talk
Bangor West Ladies Probus Group: slides and talk
Blackwell’s, Edinburgh: slides and reading
6.00pm No Alibis, Belfast: reading and slides
Narrows Restaurant, Portaferry: reading and slides for ‘Lough Lively Festival’
6.30pm Waterstones, Dawson Street, Dublin: reading and slides
6.30pm Borders Books, Dundee: reading and slides
8.00pm Downpatrick Library: reading and slides
8.00pm Waterstones, Newry: reading and slides
9.00pm Drascombe Association, East Down Yacht Club: talk and slides
7.00pm Waterstones, Lisburn: reading
8.00pm The Washing Bay Centre, Coalisland: reading
10.30am Wigtown Book Festival: reading and slides
2.00pm National Trust, Castle Ward: ‘Meet the author’ event
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Private Book Group event, Saintfield
Castle Espie Wildfowl and Wetlands Centre, Comber: slides and talk
Ards Tourism Forum, Newtownards: private presentation
Bangor Ladies Probus Group: private slide presentation
Saintfield Heritage Society: talk and slides
Ballynahinch Probus Group: private talk and slides
6.00pm Waterstones, St.Andrews, Fife: slide presentation & reading
Killinchy Probus Group: private talk and reading
1.30pm Aspects Literary Festival, Bangor: slide presentation & talk
Bangor Rotary Club: private slide presentation & reading
Bangor WEA: private slide presentation & reading
Women’s Institute (WI) Area Meeting, Ballywalter: slides and reading
Launch of ‘Literary Strangford’, Strangford Lough Yacht Club, Whiterock: reading
Radio and TV Coverage since publication
The Blue Cabin: BBC Radio Ulster’s Your Place and Mine, Sept 2006; RTE’s Afternoon Show, Sept 2006; Saga Radio’s Dave Marshall Show, Sept 2006; BBC Radio Ulster’s Saturday Magazine Show, Dec 2006; RTE’s Nationwide, January 2007; Radio FiveFM’s Rowan Hand Show, March 2007 and May 2007; UTV’s Ultimate Ulster in August 2007
Still On The Sound: Seven Thirty Show, UTV; BBC Radio Ulster’s Arts Extra; BBC Radio Coventry; BBC Radio Ulster’s Your Place and Mine
Reviews
For a selection of newspaper, magazine and online reviews go to the Reviews Etc page of this site.
Features
The Blue Cabin: Coast Magazine, Belfast Telegraph, News Letter, Ulster Tatler, Irish News, Down Recorder, Irish Times, Mourne Observer, Newtownards Chronicle, Ireland’s Own Magazine, and Scottish Field
Still On The Sound: Down Recorder (extracts); Belfast Telegraph; Newtownards Chronicle