We asked RTÉ's Book Show host Rick O'Shea to pick his favourite chats from his essential Lockdown 2020 web series Shelf Analysis - enjoy a quintet of choice literary confabs below...

Here's Rick live from his kitchen with one of the world's most famous crime writers (and Muriel Spark fanboy!) Ian Rankin:

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Below, he chats to 2020 Booker Prize winner Bernardine Evaristo...

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Meet the person Rick describes as "all-round greatest human ever, best-selling legend and curator of make-up tournaments" - Marian Keyes.

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They really don't come cooler than the author of Good Omens and American Gods, Mr. Neil Gaiman...

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And finally, meet the author of Grief Is The Things With Feathers and Lanny, Max Porter.

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Watch more from Shelf Analysis via Rick's YouTube page.