Garrett Carr on help he received from old fishermen when writing The Boy from the Sea. The Boy from the Sea unfolds over twenty years and is about a fishing family called the Bonnars. It begins when a baby is found abandoned on the shore near their town and the Bonnars adopt him, but this leads to years of trouble. The Bonnar’s original son refuses to accept his new brother and they develop a rivalry, a rivalry that deepens as …
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The Lamb stirred from my love of oral folktales – in particular, the ones I’d heard growing up. I’ve always had an infatuation with the idea of stories and how …
I have always been drawn to untold stories. Perhaps this instinct stems from the immigrant experience, having been brought up by Irish parents living in England, who then migrated back …
Sometimes, in a city, on a particularly hot day, it feels almost certain that your life is about to utterly change. If you turn a street corner, strike up a …
Here is a fantastic piece by Sinéad Gleeson for her fiction debut, Hagstone. Taking readers to the darker side of human nature and the mysteries of faith and the natural …
Rebecca Ivory author of Free Therapy tells us how she came about to write her debut collection of stories. I wrote almost half of this book while living in Alberta, …
I was eight years old, visiting my Dublin cousins. It was always a big thing for myself and my sister to be in the big smoke – all the things …
My debut novel, The Red Bird Sings, is inspired by the true story of a murder trial in West Virginia in 1897. When a blacksmith named Trout Shue was charged …
Dirty Laundry by Disha Bose is a dazzling debut novel that revolutionizes age-old ideas of love and deceit. She shares her inspiration of the main characters and their complex friendships. …
Brimming with dark comedy and rage, Your Driver is Waiting by Priya Guns is a piercing and funny social commentary on modern alienation. Inspired by the iconic 70’s film Taxi …
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