Cat Hogan: They All Fall Down
For me, a lifelong obsession with books was the motivation to become an author. Every
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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
Short stories are sly. They act all benign and friendly and companionable and then when
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
Belinda McKeon’s first novel, Solace, won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Sunday Independent Best
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
The novelist, E. L Doctorow, said that writing “… is like driving a car at
Colm Tóibín talks to Sue Leonard about growing up without a father, being a writer
It had taken me twenty-four years to write my second novel. The first novel, Acts
Mary Costello is one of those lovely softly spoken writers who is has been quietly
After his sweeping international success with the stunning The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, John
I was the stereotype of a writer-in-training for a long, long time. I wrote in
Edna O’Brien’s definitive story collection The Love Object is a compelling tome that bears testimony
The journey begins with a dedicated English teacher and ends with a published novel. Along
I grew up in a small pub in West Clare. A friend of my parents,
