
Great Post Paddy’s Day Reads
St Patricks Day has come and gone in a blur of slick marketing and a
Recommended Reads allows some of our brilliant writers the chance to pass on their lists of essential reads. All writers are readers, but just what have they been reading, and what do they recommend?

St Patricks Day has come and gone in a blur of slick marketing and a

We’ve gone all romantic at writing.ie and thought we’d bring you a mixture of the

In a genre is called photo-haiga, where text and images are delicately matched, Gabriel Rosenstock

In the tradition of the “Best-of-the Year” polls that we always see this time of

Deepest Red is a collection of writing about the myth, madness, and glory that is

A short fiction collection is like a box of chocolates: in each there’ll be the

Comedian and author, Colm O’Regan’s Isn’t It Well For Ye? The Book of Irish Mammies,

Well it’s that time of year and we look back at what has been a

I have nothing against E Readers and Kindles and the like but, for me, there

Melanie Verwoerd is a human rights campaigner and former South African Ambassador to Ireland. Her

Women’s fiction and memoir writer Emma Hannigan has a very good reason to enjoy Christmas

I’ve just done a count of the books beside my bed waiting to be read.

In our fourth and final Author’s Top Five Recommendations, aiming to ensure that everyone gets

Continuing our campaign to see that everyone receives at least one book as a Christmas

Continuing our campaign to see that everyone receives at least one book as a Christmas

Christmas is coming up and, before all the happiness and eating, comes the stress of

First, a confession. Writing this piece would be, I thought, a walk in the park.