Marita Conlon McKenna is one of Ireland’s most successful and popular authors of women’s and children’s fiction. Her books are enjoyed by readers across the world. Marita’s first book, Under the Hawthorn...

I wish I could say that there is some rational or methodical way that I go about researching my novels. I wish I could stand in front of a white...

My love of writing came from a love of reading. My mum got me to join the local library when I was young and the book I remember most is...

It began with a vague notion that I wanted to write a novel about an actor who led a double life. The nineteenth century was a time when people had...

There’s something delicious about the start of a new year. Blank pages in the diary. Blank pages on the screen. A fresh start. Enthusiasm and motivation in abundance. The joy...

There are many different ways for novelists to find inspiration for their books and their characters, but writing a novel based around a member of your family is a very...

Short of stepping into a time machine, how do writers think themselves into the mind of characters who lived hundreds of years ago? In my novel The House Where It...

My decision to write the book that is The Interview evolved over the best part of a decade. Anything to do with Irish designer Eileen Gray intrigued me, and I’d...

The books I’ve written up to now have been responses to contemporaneous events: Another Alice was written during a litany of sexual violence cases that surfaced in Ireland in the...

With the release of her latest book, Writing.ie asked New York Times bestselling author Kate Kerrigan to take us through the historical novelist’s relationship with fact and fiction in The...