by Tom Comiskey
Is Edna O'Brien's next book a crime novel? Her literary agency
Ed Victor Ltd has already revealed that
The Little Red Chairs will be "about a war criminal masquerading as a healer, who settles in an Irish village".
Industry sources say the Irish author is due to deliver the manuscript of her new book this month, although according to Amazon's listing of
The Little Red Chairs it won't be published by Faber & Faber Fiction until 4 February 2016.