The Book I Needed to Write: Shelter by Sarah Franklin
Any writer will recognize this start: as a child, reading and writing were simply the
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Any writer will recognize this start: as a child, reading and writing were simply the
Back in 1992, I wasn’t prepared for the bewildering rush on sales of my
To entitle a novel is to sum it up into a tidy shorthand with the
At it Again! love bringing Irish literature to life. For our most recent literary adventure,
“If the world says ‘No’, pretend you’ve gone deaf – that’s the only advice I
I always get too involved with my characters and end up with this strange kind
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For me, a lifelong obsession with books was the motivation to become an author. Every
My debut novel was born out of a passionate sense of indignation. In Northern Ireland,
It could be said that Rob Doyle’s first novel, Here Are the Young Men, caused
Putting the finishing touches to my second novel, Citizens, over the summer, I hit a
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When I have the first draft of a novel complete, I like to travel to
My novel, Generation, will be published at the end of July. Its journey to publication
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Why write? Why turn perfectly sunny days into hours sitting in a darkened room, waiting,
Gavin McCrea was born in Dublin in 1978 and has since travelled widely, living in
I began 2014 with an almost-completed first novel, Eggshells, pieced together from jottings on scraps
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