The Honeymoon Affair is a novel about dealing with life as it is, and not as it might have been. It’s about finding what makes you happy and having the courage to embrace change, even when it’s unexpected and unwelcome. Izzy was within weeks of getting married, but is devastated when her boyfriend calls off the engagement. Ariel is questioning her ability to stay successful in her career as a literary agent while younger and more ambitious agents are snapping …
Category: Identity
Growing up without a sense of a shared identity or community can be profoundly isolating and lonely. This book arose from that disconnect, fuelled by a deep desire to connect …
The unknowables of the pandemic arrested my writing for a bit. I was sitting at my desk in 2020, worried about my sick father, unable to cross the country to …
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 …
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 …
Claire Wills shares a piece with us on her new read Missing Persons or My Grandmother’s Secret. You know that feeling that there’s something you are not in on? We …
In writing Sisters under the Rising Sun, I have tried to capture the true story of over 500 women and children through the eyes of two main characters. In Feb …
Courtney Smyth has written a lovely blog for their new read, The Undetectables. I have always loved two things: reading, and forensic science. In the case of the latter, I …
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 …
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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