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 to me in all their various dilemmas and madnesses and I had to let myself inhabit them in order to figure out what they wanted and needed – from me, from the world they were in. To inhabit a character is a very bizarre thing to do – but reading …
Category: Contemporary Fiction
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 …
For more than three decades I’ve been obsessed with Anne Lister, the gender-nonconforming Yorkshire landowner and entrepreneur who kept an extraordinarily interesting four-million-word diary with the private bits veiled in …
My first inklings of the story which would become Ordinary Human Failings were from a non-fiction book by the great Scottish writer Gordon Burn. In his definitive account of Peter …
In April 2020, a few months after the publication of my novel Dear Edward, I started a new book. Part of the reason I write is to make sense of …
I was settling down to write my fifth novel – what would become The Lodgers – just as Russia was invading Ukraine. What was happening on the other side of …
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