I began the #ReadIrishWomenChallenge back in April 2019 as a way to spotlight great work by Irish female authors, and to start a conversation about their writing. Now that it’s in its third year, the real challenge is keeping things fresh and interesting while holding on to old favourites. To use a gardening metaphor, it means a certain amount of judicious pruning while ruthlessly uprooting old plants and planting new ones…and you’re not sure how it will all work until …
Category: Biography & Memoir
“Too embarrassed even to try as long as everyone was looking at me, I made what was probably a fairly unique request. ‘Um, I’ll have a go. But I can’t …
The Ministry of Bodies describes the final months of my long career as a hospital doctor. I left in the first week of February 2020, just before the pandemic. Although …
Christmas 2020 promises to be one like no other. Most of us will be at home. There’ll be less visiting but more home fires; less cocktails in bars but more …
On the face of it, I get up, I put on my runners and I go out the door and run. On the face of it so often a person …
The process of writing Tell Me The Truth About Loss has been one of the most powerful experiences I’ve ever known. In equal measures, one of the toughest and also …
Music to Write To Before I really started writing, I mean writing in earnest, writing for a living (or a kind of living), using writing as a way to think, …
handiwork is my first book of non-fiction. It was written quickly, almost impulsively, over the course of six months in 2018, and in response to a period in which I was …
Along with books, music has always been one of my greatest joys. Putting these two great loves together was a no-brainer. My collection of music-related books has been growing, and …
For those of you who are currently staying close to home in urban areas, I offer some vicarious countryside living in the form of two lovely books: The Secret Life …
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