Padraig Kenny - The Monsters and Shadows of Rookhaven

Pádraig Kenny is an Irish writer. He started his career writing radio drama. As an arts journalist, he has contributed work to the Irish Times, the Sunday Tribune, the Sunday Independent, the Irish Examiner, and several other publications.

His debut novel Tin was published by Chicken House in 2018 and was Waterstones Children’s Book of the Month. It has been nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal and the Northern Ireland Book Awards. His second novel Pog was published in April 2019 and was Independent Booksellers’ Children’s Book of the Month.

In this podcast, he talks with Nikki Gamble about his Rookehaven stories: The Monsters of Rookhaven and The Shadows of Rookhaven

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