I had always wanted to set a novel in London but was daunted by those who have gone before me: writers born and bred there or who at least, spent most of their writing lives walking its streets and breathing its air. I hardly knew London at all – apart from a few weeks one long-ago summer, when I worked as a barmaid in the East End. And if I am to write a novel, I need to know the …
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Test Kitchen is a darkly funny and often macabre story about the culture of food, of dining and eating, about feeding and nourishing, about mothers, mortality and magic. Stories are …
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 …
Catherine Prasifka, shares a few words on her new book, This is How You Remember It. When I think back over the significant moments of my life, the internet is …
Niamh Mulvey shares a few words on she came about to write her new book, The Amendments. Writing The Amendments was a strange and strangely joyful experience. The characters came …
I’m not sure if this anecdote is true or not but a fellow Irish writer once told me that Chekhov would prepare to pen a new short story by writing …
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, …
Barcelona by Mary Costello is a captivating short story collection from award-winning novelist exploring love, loss and the turbulent lives of ordinary people. The stories in this collection were written …
We are delighted to have a piece by Anna Fitzgerald for Girl in the Making. This coming-of-age tale is about a gentle girl called Jean Kennedy growing up in suburban …
Sometime in the late 1990s, I read Herman Hesse’s 1927 novel Steppenwolf and was awed by a passage that prophesied the great destruction coming to Europe. Harry Haller, that book’s …
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