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 by the Abbey Theatre. But my stories were always close to my lived experience and after a while I realised that memoir was my new fiction; memoir is not biography; it’s a selection of memories that one relishes, and from which one can create a kind of true fiction. A …
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Martin Doyle tells us about his new read Dirty Linen The Troubles in My Homeplace… Growing up in rural Co Down during the Troubles, I turned to books to understand …
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 …
Books for Business and Life… Given his constant presence in the upper echelons of the Irish podcast chart, it is no surprise that demand for Dragon’s Den star Steven Bartlett’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 …
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 …
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 …
I had a single recurrent idea for How to Build a Boat for many years––to write a story about a boy who was starting secondary school. But it took me …
It’s that time of the year once again! It means only one thing for our bookseller, Karina, from our Rathmines shop: the annual #ReadIrishWomenChallenge23, and we at Dubray are delighted …
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