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Sam Blake is the No 1 bestselling author of the Cat Conolly trilogy 'Little Bones', 'In Deep Water' and 'No Turning Back' (Bonnier). 'Little Bones' was shortlisted for Irish Crime Novel of the Year. Her new standalone thriller 'Keep Your Eyes On Me' is due out with Corvus in January 2020.

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Behind the Bestseller #12 | Sam Blake talks to ER Murray

Sam Blake Jun 5, 2020 0

Shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards, ER Murray is the author of the One Book One City Dublin City Read The Book of Learning, the first in her Nine Lives Trilogy. ? Elizabeth Rose Murray, represented by Sallyanne Sweeney of Mulcahy…

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Behind the Bestseller #11 | Sam Blake Talks To Carmel Harrington

Sam Blake May 22, 2020 0

International bestseller Carmel Harrington writes issue-driven popular fiction and is the author of Cold Feet The Lost Years, which accompanies the ITV series. Carmel's uplifting and inspiring books have all been regular chart-toppers,…

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Behind the Bestseller #10 | Sam Blake Talks To Jane Casey

Sam Blake May 8, 2020 0

This week on Behind the Bestseller, Sam Blake chats to Jane Casey. Jane Casey is one of the strongest voices and most successful voices in Irish crime fiction - living in London but Irish to the core, she straddles both countries…

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Behind the Bestseller #9 | Sam Blake Talks To Alex Barclay

Sam Blake Apr 24, 2020 0

On this episode of Behind the Bestseller Sam Blake chats to Alex Barclay. Research is one of the keys to Alex Barclay’s incredible success, with ideas developing from chance conversations with experts. Sam Blake quizzes her on her unique…

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Behind the Bestseller #8 | Sam Blake talks to Hazel Gaynor

Sam Blake Apr 10, 2020 0

Being taken on by a high profile literary agency should have been the start of Hazel Gaynor's career, but unfortunately they couldn’t place her Titanic novel The Girl Who Came Home. With the Titanic anniversary rapidly approaching, Hazel…

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Behind the Bestseller #7 | Sam Blake talks to Darach Ó Séaghdha

Sam Blake Mar 27, 2020 0

Non-fiction is a different beast to fiction, and in this episode Sam Blake chats to Darach Ó Séaghdha, the Irish writer, podcaster and Irish language activist. The author of Motherfoclóir: Dispatches from a Not So Dead Language (Head of…

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Behind the Bestseller #6 | Sam Blake talks with Sinéad Moriarty

Sam Blake Mar 13, 2020 0

From piling up the rejection slips Sinéad Moriarty joined a writers group and wrote the book that was closest to her heart. Drawing on her personal experience The Baby Trail immediately hit the bestseller list and kickstarted a career that…

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Behind the Bestseller #5 | Sam Blake talks to Sallyanne Sweeney

Sam Blake Feb 28, 2020 0

In a double length episode Sam Blake quizzes Literary Agent Sallyanne Sweeney from MMB Creative on what she looks for in a new manuscript and how she wades through often 300 submissions a week. Sallyanne answers the age old question of what…

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Behind the Bestseller #4 | Sam Blake talks to Ruth Long

Sam Blake Feb 14, 2020 0

Romance is the biggest selling genre worldwide and award winning author Ruth Long, in all her various incarnations as RF Long, Ruth Francis Long and Jessica Thorne, writes romance combined with fantasy - from parallel worlds to sci-fi space…

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Behind the Bestseller #3 | Sam Blake talks to Claire Allan

Sam Blake Jan 31, 2020 0

From her life as a journalist in Northern Ireland to her first women's fiction book, Claire Allan's publishing journey was punctuated by key life events. In Behind the Bestseller she reveals what made her take that first step into fiction…

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