Sometimes the idea for a book can seem so blindingly obvious that it’s difficult to believe it doesn’t exist already. When I first thought about researching the women in Oscar...

Ghost writing is often straightforward. Someone starts writing their story, but hasn’t the skills to finish it. You come in, edit the writing, and fill in the gaps by interviewing...

I started my career in radio, moved on to television and made my way to books in a sort of sideways lep, via music theatre and interactive digital multimedia. This...

January 2011: Three score and ten, I was fast approaching my biblical allotment of years and was already five years older than either of my parents at the time of...

If you were to ask me what the inspiration behind my book, Hidden City, was – it’s obvious: Dublin. It was the city where I grew up and where I...

Over a peppermint tea beside Hodges Figgis bookshop, Carlo Gébler tells me that writing about his father in his new book Confessions of a Catastrophist was a cathartic experience. Like...

The idea of being a published author has always appealed to me. It also adds a feather to your cap as a journalist. There was just one problem – time....

It has been like a three act play; act one was writing the book, act two was getting it published and act three is publicising the book now it is...

There is no college course for matchmaking, dating or relationships. There is no magic recipe book that if followed exactly will find your perfect mate. There aren’t even many dating...

Tina Murphy first developed her running programme for a friend, but when she realised how many others wanted a similar course she created an eight-week ‘Running Made Easy’ programme, which...