I don’t think I have ever been so excited about a book as I am about The Russian Affair. It is the story of Vitaly and Yuliya Stepanov, the husband-and-wife …
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‘What’s happening now Ann?’ My mother is in my ear. ‘Is he out yet? It’s 10 o’clock.’ We watch the empty altar on my tablet. There’s no sign of Father …
We live in a modern world of pressure, a “perfect storm”, and parents are trying their best without a road map. Whilst they can dream about growing a resilient child, …
The Pull of the Stars began over sixteen years ago when I was in premature labour with our first child who, as a playful five-year-old, would be my model for …
Songs are mysterious companions. I remember turning the dial of my mother’s transistor radio one summer’s evening in the late Seventies and finding Across the Universe by The Beatles. It …
While I was writing my second novel A Sabbatical in Leipzig, I found myself returning to a type of drawing I first encountered in secondary school, while studying for my …
June 16th. Another cloudless summer day. The RTE Six O’Clock News finishes with a montage of boater hats, round spectacles, moustaches and parasols. Colourful crowds gather each side of the …
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, …
My eye lit upon this book in the list of the few brave titles remaining in the publication schedule once the Coronavirus lockdown took hold. I’m so glad it stood …
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