Peig McManus shares an extract from her memoir, I Will Be Good Mam said it was cold the day she brought me home to our tenement room on North King Street in Dublin 7. Gran, my dad’s mother, had the fire lighting. Mam sat in front of it, cradling me on her lap, heating her hands to warm my cold feet. Very soon I got the hang of things and stretched out my tiny feet o meet her warmed hands. …
Category: Irish Writers
I’m often asked where I get the ideas for my books, and the answer is different every time. The Last Lifeboat began with a nugget of history I discovered back …
Naoise Dolan tells us about her new read, The Happy Couple. Astrology is a harsh mistress, yet I’m ever in her thrall. As an Aries, I am constantly told that …
Nearly fifteen years ago, a man was found dead on a beach in the north-west of Ireland. Nobody knew who he was or where he had come from. The man …
Sometimes my book ideas start with plot and sometimes they start with a character. Don’t Look Back has a little of both. I had this wonderful opener in my head: …
Andrea Mara is back with her new crime thriller, No One Saw A Thing. A heart-stopping premise – a woman’s child goes missing after stepping onto an underground carriage and …
The idea for Hotel 21 came to me when I was staying in a small hotel in Lisbon and I accidentally annoyed the hotel cleaner. She wanted to get in …
Sheila O’ Flanagan, briefly tells us about her first historical novel, The Woman On The Bridge. The story of a young woman caught up in Ireland’s fight for freedom. The …
Claire Kilroy shares a few words about her new novel, Soldier Sailor. This takes the reader “deep into the early days of motherhood. It’s been a long time since I published …
Books tend to form slowly for me. Usually there’s a novel or two in various states of progress, and particularly early on, and then again between drafts, I’ll bounce between …
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