In our final post for 2019, Mary Burnham rounds up her favourites of the year. See you in 2020! It’s that time of year when so many people give books as gifts to friends and family as a token of their love. But it’s often difficult to choose from the plethora of new titles screaming out for your attention in bookshops up and down the country. To make it a little easier here are some of my favourites that I’ve …
Month: December 2019
As the year comes to an end, I asked our regular bloggers to pick two books for 2019 — their favourite book published this year, and the best book from …
As the year comes to an end, I asked our regular bloggers to pick two books for 2019 — their favourite book published this year, and the best book from …
When Helen Carr of O’Brien Press approached me to write a book in a new children’s series called Great Irish Sports Stars, I was incredibly excited. It was to be …
… and to be entirely appropriate, Manners Maketh the Woman too! No, I am not being supercilious or patronising, but I do bemoan the death of basic manners. In everyday …
Amid a certain amount of consternation, Bernardine Evaristo shared this year’s Booker Prize with Margaret Atwood. It’s the third time in its history that two authors have shared this most …
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