
Christmas at the Cross by Maeve Murphy
“Resuscitating the heart of compassion that society has lost” is something the Buddhist philosopher and

“Resuscitating the heart of compassion that society has lost” is something the Buddhist philosopher and

The story of Charlotte & Arthur began on a summer’s day in Haworth in 1979.

In the novel, The Garfield Conspiracy, the main protagonist, Richard Todd, is asked where the

I have recently published my first novel, Penny Baps. A story about brothers and home

The stories in this collection were written over a span of more than 30 years.

If you wait it will come. The sun. In a flash across the hills. Here

It is a strange thing to move freely in a world where others cannot. I

What if my Mother Had Happened to Life? If you’d told me at the age

The Prophet With the exception of my teachers at St. Columba’s National School, Glasnevin, I

Every writer’s journey is different. When a book deal is announced, a lot of noise

Like many stories, this one began with an image. An adolescent, infatuated with a girl

Le Fanu’s Angel had its genesis in a true story. An acquaintance of mine, call

When Faber acquired my second collection of stories, they did so on the basis of

Into the Mouth of the Lion started out as a short story, inspired by a

On a February evening, just over three years ago, I was happily procrastinating on Twitter

It all started with a name. In the early 2000s, there was a spate of

When setting out to write The End Is Where We Begin, (or ‘book two’ as

The Disappearance of Stephanie Mailer is my fourth novel. Or rather: it is only my

In March 2012 a dozen of us gathered around a table in a Waterford hotel,

I used to joke that if the mother I was to my first son met