Books are my business: Sandycove editorial director Brendan Barrington

'I look for books to acquire for Sandycove: reading submissions from writers and agents, and approaching people who I think may have a brilliant book in them'

Brendan Barrington: 'In 2000 I started The Dublin Review, a quarterly literary journal, and in 2003 I joined the brand-new Penguin Ireland imprint, now Sandycove, as an editor.'

Brendan Barrington is editorial director at Sandycove, an imprint of Penguin Random House. He also founded The Dublin Review, a quarterly magazine of essays, memoir, reportage, and fiction. Born and raised in New York, he lives in Dublin.

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