People often ask where book ideas come from…a tough question because in my experience they seem to drop from the ether or have been like the grit in the oyster...

I really wish there was a lightning-bolt moment where I realised I wanted to be a writer. Perhaps striding across some desolate moor in the milky dawn and seeing something...

Seven Letters is my 14th novel and possibly the most moving. The book was originally inspired by a court case I read about a few years ago. The story of...

Sometimes we compose our earliest stories, without even realizing they are quietly being written inside us. I don’t know where stories come from, but I do know how life shapes...

Colin and the Concubine is the second novel by actor and journalist Domhnall O’Donoghue. However, originally, it was supposed to be a completely different story. Then, Tuesday, 8 November 2016...

When the idea for When All Is Said, came to me in 2015, I’d been writing for about a year. Writing was a hobby that I knew was beginning to...

As a romantic comedy writer I’ve got two main goals with my book: to make my readers swoon along with the budding romance and to make them laugh. Sounds easy...

Travelling back in time only to end up in the same place. When I decided to write the story of Lina Rose, the heroine of The Reckoning, I knew I...

Fiction has always been my first love. I always wanted to write a novel. It was one of those things I said as a teenager to my closest friend, way...

When I was 12 I began keeping a diary, a proper diary, a half page entry every day, recording the extraordinary events of my life. It was 1963. I had...