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 Tipperary hillside. To write it, I followed the signposts that appeared from the overgrowth along the back roads of my own life, and listened for the voices of my own people, like I always have. Nine books in, I’m used to the strange magic of a story that starts to …
Author: Sorcha Hennessy
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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