In a second interview from our series on Irish debut children’s authors, Olivia Hope of our Down the Rabbit Hole blog talks to Sinéad O’Hart. Sinéad lives in Meath with...

In the first of a series of interviews with Irish debut children’s authors, Olivia Hope of our Down the Rabbit Hole blog talks about first-time experiences of being a published...

Back in the day (the seventies, to be exact) if you said you wanted to grow up to be a writer, your parents and teachers just smiled indulgently and said...

It all started with my school poetry book, Soundings. Hands up who remembers Soundings? Originally published in 1969 and republished in 2010 with a forward by Joseph O’Connor. In the...

Little Island is going all adventurous! Little Island has for some years now been publishing mostly paperback novels for children and teenagers by debut and established Irish authors, as well...

When I was a kid, I was allowed to wander through the library by myself. I mostly read Enid Blyton and Joyce Stranger who wrote animal stories. My earliest memories...

When I think back to when I was in middle and high school, science wasn’t exactly my favorite subject. The words in the textbooks were hard to read, much less...

I remember reading my first chapter novel at the age of ten by C.S. Adler and being in complete awe of the creativity. I’d never experienced my senses being touched...

Today is a big day for me. A day I’ve been dreaming about for a very long time. Today my children’s novel, Gangster School, is published in the UK. It...

In 2010, The O’Brien Press asked me to write a children’s novel about the Titanic which resulted in the bestselling Spirit of the Titanic. Last year, they asked me to...