Thanks to DCU Arts and Culture for another superb DCU Book Club session. Join us in January for @kitdewaal.com's discussion of her novel 'The Best of Everything'. Tickets are free but spaces are limited so book your ticket now! www.dcu.ie/dcuartsandcu...

Here are the all important reading recommendations from this month's DCU Book Club author! John Patrick McHugh recommends Brian Friel's Stories of Ireland, Dante's Divine Comedy and Sabbath's Theatre by Philip Roth.

The island setting in Fun and Games allowed John Patrick McHugh to examine the good and bad of living in a small town and the Gaelic football scenes captured the beauty and prose of the sport. We do love the author readings at the DCU Book Club!

John Patrick McHugh talks about how great it was to spend time with the characters when he was writing Fun and Games. The novel gets into the main character's head - fiction should explore the complexity and grey areas in people in a way that feels real.

John Patrick McHugh talks about the influences and supports that encouraged his creative writing. His novel Fun and Games, shortlisted for novel of the year in the Irish Book Awards, is a character study of someone on the cusp of becoming.