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 conversation, get off the train a few stops early, it never stops feeling likely, even inevitable, that some remarkable thing will happen. The remarkable thing never does happen, or nearly never, but I still enjoy the feeling: to be suspended in longing for something you can’t quite put your finger …
Category: Debut
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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