Books

Bookshops and their proprietors thrive on browsers, on customers asking for recommendations,on book launches and on all the little interactions which the pandemic has robbed us of. So what's it like to run a bookshop in a pandemic?…

Louise O’Neill, Clonakilty’s literary superstar, has never been content to limit her phenomenal writing skills to a single genre. Her latest work, “After The Silence”, sees her apply her gift for world-building, Swiss-watch plot intricacy…

In this episode of Basically... Stefanie talks to Ciara Doorley from Hachette Ireland. Ciara is the editor and publisher who helped bring Stefanie's books into the world. So she answers questions about getting a book published, whether…

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,…

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…

It's a first for Sweet Valley as a person of colour takes centre stage (literally). So of course the book has to be all about "Being Chinese-American", as Jade Wu struggles to balance her love for her family with her dreams of dance stardom…

The sun is shining (occasionally), the beer gardens are open, and language students and tourists alike are still bewildered by the idea of not getting their change back when paying their bus fare. Welcome to the Irish summer! Because we are…

"Mystery, Cara! Mystery!" It's Jessica's new mantra, but the biggest mystery in this episode, about the novel Pretenses, is how Abbie Richardson managed to be completely invisible to her classmates during the two years she was going out…

Words To That Effect Episode 21: The Invention of Time Time, as we understand it today, was only really invented in the Victorian era. We take it for granted today that our phones and watches and other devices are accurate to the…

In the second episode of WriteStuff, Chris Fitzgerald talks to Liz Nugent. Following on from the huge successes of her first two novels, Unravelling Oliver and Lying in Wait, Liz has just released Skin Deep. The novel tells the story of…