Saoirse is the story of a young American woman who flees to Ireland to escape the troubles she left behind in Michigan. Travelling under a stolen identity, she boards a plane planning to only disappear for a short while, but she accidentally begins to build a life. Before long she realises there is no simple way back. As she builds a life in her adopted country, she works through her past and present traumas by pouring herself into her art, all the while avoiding the truth of the lie she is living. …
Category: Contemporary Fiction
I began my writing life with novels and plays and had success with three books, Priest, The Trouble with Sarah Gullion, and Bird in the Snow, and 6 plays produced …
When I began writing Let Me Go Mad In My Own Way, I returned to characters I had already spent time with. Claire and Tom first appeared in a short …
Three years ago, I began an unusual project. I decided to write four novellas, each 40,000 words long, based around the traditional building blocks of the universe – water, earth, …
I wrote The Names because I’ve always been fascinated by the things that shape us as people. Our upbringing, our circumstances, the interests we’re steered toward, the people we cross …
What does love do to our imaginations? That was the question that preoccupied me for years as I was writing Open, Heaven. The other question was, what happens when we …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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