When I open a fantasy book for the first time, I automatically seek out a map that will divulge the world that I have just decided to explore. There is …
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One of the things that I’ve been missing most over the chaotic past few weeks has been getting to gush to customers over what recent and upcoming releases I’ve been …
The toddler is dragging me outside to play, the cat is threatening to attack if I don’t feed him for the twelfth time today, and the other half is signaling …
I’ve always loved books about tiny people or creatures. I think that some of the attraction might lie in the detailed description of the world, the charm of seeing the …
When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does. – You’ve Got …
I want to tell them that the world isn’t evil. That it’s full and complicated and beautiful and good, filled with unknown truths and unbroken hopes, and that it’s waiting …
It starts with almost nothing. A throwaway anecdote from a friend about the BSE crisis; about the late-nineties when the cows – and the country – were going mad. You …
The Temple House Vanishing is a dark and, I hope, atmospheric tale of desire set in a convent school in the early 1990s. The story emerged from a kind of …
Many years ago, my mother met Maeve Binchy at an event and they got on like a house on fire: two Dalkey women with a lot in common. From then …
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