Dear lovely Dubray readers, First of all thank you for your patience. It has been three long years since Strange Sally Diamond was published and I’m sure you must have thought I’d gone into retirement, but finally, I’m back with a shiny new book called The Truth About Ruby Cooper. If I was to sum up the book in one word, I might say blame or shame. The book deals with both and the consequences that play out over decades. …
Category: Fiction
Every literary generation has its own underdog – as a kid I had Adrian Mole, in the late 90’s there was Stanley Yelnats from HOLES, ten years on Wimpy Kid crashed the party, …
From the second I set foot in the coastal village of Dunmore East in Waterford, I knew I was onto something truly special. The cliffs, the tidal strand, the hotels …
I began my writing life with novels and plays and had success with three books, Priest, The Trouble with Sarah Gullion, and Bird in the Snow, and 6 plays produced …
As a crime writer and a huge crime reader, I love nothing more than discovering new authors and hearing about how my favourite writers put a book together – where …
By John Banville I have a thing against Venice. In fact, I have a number of things against Venice. The avarice. The tourists. The smells. Some years ago I was …
The art of discovering a favourite book by Jessica Harrison, Publishing Director of Penguin Classics. How do you choose a favourite book? Is it the novel you discovered as a …
Caoimhe in our Cork store reflects on the books that have shaped her… In May 2015, I was 15 years old and although I did not yet recognize my own …
Memories collide to create the inspiration for The Museum of Lost Umbrellas Back in 2020 I woke up one morning with a dream still swimming in my head: an isolated …
Usually when asked where my inspiration comes from, I tend to say that it begins with character. But The Night I Killed Him started with a location – specifically the …
Recent Comments