Caroline O’Donoghue shares some her inspiration behind The Rachel Incident… James and Rachel are two 20-somethings who meet working at a bookshop in 2010. I set it in a bookshop because I had always worked in retail during college; I chose 2010 because it was a year when I felt very young, and very free. But until I added the bookshop element, I never considered that The Rachel Incident – my third novel for adults – was, in a sense, …
Category: Fiction
I’m often asked where I get the ideas for my books, and the answer is different every time. The Last Lifeboat began with a nugget of history I discovered back …
The sequel to the No.1 Sunday Times Bestseller Murder Before Evensong, A Death in the Parish is here! And Daniel Clement is back… It’s been a few months since murder …
Naoise Dolan tells us about her new read, The Happy Couple. Astrology is a harsh mistress, yet I’m ever in her thrall. As an Aries, I am constantly told that …
Nearly fifteen years ago, a man was found dead on a beach in the north-west of Ireland. Nobody knew who he was or where he had come from. The man …
Sometimes my book ideas start with plot and sometimes they start with a character. Don’t Look Back has a little of both. I had this wonderful opener in my head: …
Andrea Mara is back with her new crime thriller, No One Saw A Thing. A heart-stopping premise – a woman’s child goes missing after stepping onto an underground carriage and …
Service is a story about the abuse of power, set in a buzzy, high-end Dublin restaurant at the height of the boom. It’s told from three perspectives – waitress Hannah …
The idea for Hotel 21 came to me when I was staying in a small hotel in Lisbon and I accidentally annoyed the hotel cleaner. She wanted to get in …
Sheila O’ Flanagan, briefly tells us about her first historical novel, The Woman On The Bridge. The story of a young woman caught up in Ireland’s fight for freedom. The …
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