Told through three different voices and centered around a high-end restaurant chef who faces accusations of sexual assault, Service by Sarah Gilmartin is an acutely observed look at power and complicity, the lies we tell and the courage it takes to face the truth. Join the author in conversation with Ellen Howley from DCU’s School of English, along with the book clubs from Raheny Library.

Sarah Gilmartin is an Irish writer and arts journalist. Her short fiction has been published in The Dublin Review, New Irish Writing and The Tangerine. She won the Máirtín Crawford Short Story Award in 2020. Her bestselling debut novel Dinner Party (One, 2021) was shortlisted for an Irish Book Award and the Kate O’Brien Award. Her second novel Service (One, 2023) was a Waterstones Book of the Month and a Washington Post top books of summer. She is the 2025 writer-in-residence at Dublin City University.

Dr Ellen Howley is an Assistant Professor at DCU’s School of English. She writes primarily about Irish and Caribbean literature and her book Oceanic Connections: The Sea in Irish and Caribbean Poetry will be published in 2025, by Syracuse University Press. She is the co-author of Seamus Heaney’s Mythmaking, a collection of essays that explores Heaney’s use of myth across his work. She has appeared on RTÉ’s Drivetime and Newstalk’s Moncrieff and Lunchtime Live and has published work in the Irish Times, RTÉ Brainstorm and The Conversation.