Review. Rules of the Road. Ciara Geraghty
Ciara Geraghty has been publishing books for ten years now, and in that time, has proved to be a sensitive writer, whose novels combine a serious theme, with humour and characters so gorgeous, one wishes they […]
Chip Cheek
Chip wrote a novel aged 8, which included the great depression and contained volcanoes. After taking a degree in journalism, he turned to fiction. “During Grad school I focused on short stories – some were published […]
Jane Casey
Jane Casey has the sweetest smile. She’s pretty, with gloriously thick brown hair, and large, kind eyes. It’s hard to believe that behind all that softness she has murder on her mind. Yet for the past […]
Jessica Andrews
As a child, Jessica spent all her summers in Donegal, where her grandfather is from. “Ireland is my second home,” she says. Jessica is much travelled. She spent an Erasmus year in Santa Cruz, before taking […]
Christina McDonald
Christina has been telling stories as long as she can remember, and has always wanted to be a writer. “I went into journalism as a way to make money from writing.” Graduating in America just after […]
James Butler
James’s mother died when he was 10, leaving him, and his seven siblings in the care of their father, a farm labourer, who treated them with benign neglect. He loved comics, but didn’t develop a love […]
Steph Booth
When Tony Booth was first diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, his wife, Steph, was at a loss. The medical profession seemed to know little of the reality of the illness, and information was sketchy. “I was told, ‘this […]
Adrian Wistreich
Son of a Polish émigré, Adrian grew up in South London, but he boarded from age 8 to 13 at Westminster Abbey Choir School. “I sang at Winston Churchill’s funeral and Princess Anne’s wedding.” After University […]
Sinead Gleeson
Sinead and I first met on a snowy morning in 2010. She was on crutches after a hip replacement; my arm was in a sling because I’d tripped over my dog, and the writer Howard Jacobson, […]
Beth O’Leary
Beth grew up in Winchester, the youngest of six children. “I spent a lot of time reading and writing, retreating from the noise!” She started out by writing Young Adult fiction. “But The Flat Share was […]
Kealan Ryan
Films have always been Kealan’s thing. As a student he wanted to work behind the camera and write for the screen, and after college, he stayed home and worked with some camera men before settling down, […]
Charlotte Bingham
I’ve always been aware of the writer, Charlotte Bingham. I remember my mother laughing out loud, reading Coronet Among the Weeds, Bingham’s send up of her time as an English debutante, ‘doing’ the season. In the […]