Caoilinn Hughes’ new novel explores the bonds of sisterhood and the ways those bonds can be tested. Read on… The novel follows four Irish sisters, all in their thirties, who reunite when one of the sisters—an earth scientist—suddenly disappears from her work and home, sending one final note asking her family not to pursue her. The sisters had been living distanced lives, in separate countries, and we meet them first individually. I wanted to show women attempting to do meaningful …
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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 …
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 …
Here is a fantastic piece by Sinéad Gleeson for her fiction debut, Hagstone. Taking readers to the darker side of human nature and the mysteries of faith and the natural …
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 …
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 …
Dearest Marian, The world you and I knew before you died has changed immeasurably. We didn’t know it, of course, but Covid-19 was already creeping through humanity in our last …
Anne Doyle tells us about her new new read, Tales of the Otherworld. Ghosts have always been a part of my life. This isn’t something I acknowledge easily, nor is …
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