A question of taste: Amanda Feery discusses her favourite things

Offaly-born composer Amanda Feery won the Seán Ó Riada Composition Competition for this year’s Cork International Choral Festival and her piece will be performed on Friday in St Fin Barre’s Cathedral. She is also working on pieces for Crash Ensemble and the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra.

Best recent book: Njáls Saga, an Icelandic saga (heaps better than Game of Thrones).

Best recent film: When I Saw You by Annemarie Jacir.