A Q&A with Louise Kennedy, prize-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author of Trespasses. Stations opens in the early ‘80s and spans a period of 25 years. Why did you choose to situate the novel in this period of time? Like Róisín, I turned fifteen in a drab town in the Irish midlands in 1982. It was a strange time in Ireland, tumultuous yet stagnant. The previous year, ten men had died on hunger strike in the north and forty-eight young people …
Author: Sorcha Hennessy
In January 2023, my long-term relationship ended abruptly, six months after we had bought our first home together. I was about to turn 38 and my life had fallen apart …
The average life is made up of millions of moments, some memorable, most forgettable, but occasionally it’s defined by a single one. For Oscar Wilde, such a moment came on …
‘Hello, everyone,’ I said. ‘My name – for those of you who aren’t au fait with Irish-Sino relations,’ and here I gave a little chuckle, ‘is Fiach O’Bric. I’m from, …
Where are the Kings is the story of a boy who moves from the comfort and familiarity of his childhood home to live with his late mother’s family on a …
The first rule in writing stories is that there is no hurry. Some stories in my new book ‘The News from Dublin’ took a decade or more to finish. The …
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 …
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 …
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