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. …
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Dear lovely Dubray readers, First of all thank you for your patience. It has been three long years since Strange Sally Diamond was published and I’m sure you must have …
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 …
The art of discovering a favourite book by Jessica Harrison, Publishing Director of Penguin Classics. How do you choose a favourite book? Is it the novel you discovered as a …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Service is a story about the abuse of power, set in a buzzy, high-end Dublin restaurant at the height of the boom. It’s told from three perspectives – waitress Hannah …
We all make lists every day. They’re the most mundane form of writing – or are they? Lists can be much stranger than they appear. Shopping lists, to-do lists, wish lists …
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