I wrote the outline for my first novel, There’s Been A Little Incident on a flight from Dublin to London where I was living at the time. I had been circling the themes of the novel; grief and loneliness- for a long time. But what became clear to me on that flight was that although I wanted to capture the raw brutality of grief- I was actually more interested in what comes next; in how you manage to live with the pain- and the …
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My new book, Wild and Wonderful, is, in a way, a prequel to Our Wild World, which was published last year, and which explained how our natural world works. Wild …
Hello Dubray readers! I hope you are all well and cosying up next to your fires and reading your books now that it’s autumn. Listen I have no clue what …
About Andrea Mara We love to recommend new books and offer you a taste of the latest publications or soon to be published. One such novel is by the award-winning …
As early as 2016 I knew I wanted to write the next stage of Nella’s story, continuing where I left off from the last scene in The Miniaturist, but I …
My fiction debut, The Amusements, is a novel of interconnected stories set in the seaside town of Tramore – a place I know well because my family are from Waterford. With the …
The strange thing about summer jobs is that we often take them at a time in our lives when we are waiting for ‘real life’ to begin. When I was …
Short stories are the subject of so much myth and mysticism that for a long time, I was afraid to try writing them. So when I was struck with a …
Be they scholars or enthusiasts, millions have bowed at the feet of Joyce, to be confounded or delighted, in equal measure. In celebration of the enduring fascination with this book, …
About ten years ago I was touring my stand-up comedy show in England. Doing my due diligenceon the town I was performing in one night, I stumbled upon a chilling, …
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